Judith Schoonenboom
University of Vienna
| Introduction: My hobby is writing (dissertation) songs and short poems. For my mother (87), I wrote the 2025 carnaval song “Heb ik m’n snoertje er wel in” Verse from: Jeroen van Andel’s dissertation song (2012); Tune of: Suzanne (VOF De Kunst) Aan het katheder in de Aula Staat een pinguïn in het zweet. Hij blijft maar hopen en maar bidden Dat hij straks het antwoord weet. Dan zegt hij plots: ‘Dear candidate’. O, wat een blunder, dat is kut. Van Andel, Van Andel, Van Andel, Doctor is zijn naam. Klapphornvers Zwei Knaben gingen durch das Korn Der eine riss ein Klappenhorn Der andre riss ‘nen derben Wortwitz Man sieht: Es waren Max und Moritz |
| Research topics: I studied Dutch Language and Literature at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam. My dissertation was about the change of the free relative pronoun in Dutch, from 1300 until 1980. My mixed background has helped me to become an expert on mixed methods: As a former science pupil, I love numbers; as a trained linguist, I love texts, language, and writing, as a social science researcher, I am fascinated by methodology. |
| Current research interest: My current research interests are mixed methods research design and the foundations of mixed methods research. My research ambition for the coming years is to make mixed methods more usable to scholars and students in two ways: (1) by replacing the leading role of a data-driven and static definition of mixed methods research as “a combination of quantitative and qualitative data collection and data analysis that are meaningfully connected” by a conceptual and emergent definition of “using different methods to develop research questions that build on each other“; and (2) by developing an app for designing mixed methods research that implements this conceptual and emergent definition. |
| Tips & tricks: Follow your interests Don’t give up Do better than I did |