Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria van der Heijden is professor of Strategic HRM at the Radboud University, Institute for Management Research, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Head of the Department Strategic HRM. Moreover, she occupies a Chair in Strategic HRM at the Open University of the Netherlands, at Ghent University, Belgium, at Hubei University, Wuhan, China and at Kingston University, London, UK. In 2019 Beatrice has been appointed as a member of the Academy of Europe, and in 2022 as a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. She is a Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands since 2021. Her main research areas are: sustainable careers, employability, and aging at work. Van der Heijden is Associate Editor for the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology and Co-Editor for the German Journal of Human Resource Management. Her work has been published in, among others, European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, HRM, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Career Development International, Personnel Psychology, and Academy of Management Annals. She is Co-Editor of the Handbook of Research on Sustainable Careers (EE Publishing).

Beatrice holds a Master of Science degree in Work and Organizational Psychology from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands and a PhD in Management Science from the University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.

Relevant Research

• Elsey, V., Van Der Heijden, B., Smith, M. A., & Moss, M. (2022). Examining the role of employability as a mediator in the relationship between psychological capital and objective career success amongst occupational psychology professionals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958226

Interests

• Sustainable Careers

• Employability

• Expertise Development

• Ageing at Work