Loes Loning is a social anthropologist whose research focuses on gender, health and intergenerational justice. She is interested in how experiences of violence, displacement and social inequality shape social worlds, wellbeing and health across generations, and how people navigate and respond to these experiences over time.

Her PhD research, based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Rwanda, explored the intergenerational aftermaths of conflict-related sexual violence, focusing on the social worlds of young people conceived through rape during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and their relationships with their mothers, families and communities.

She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Future Health project at the University of Amsterdam. Her ethnographic research in Greece explores how informal and often invisible forms of care shape the wellbeing of pregnant refugee women and their children, connecting everyday care to intergenerational health and justice.

Previously, as a researcher at Rutgers, a Dutch centre of expertise on sexual and reproductive health and rights, she worked on sexual and gender-based violence prevention, social norms and technology-facilitated gender-based violence across international research programmes.

In her work, she bridges academic research, policy and practice, drawing on more than a decade of research and professional experience in East and Southern Africa and within international development and humanitarian contexts to examine how policy and institutional responses take shape in people's everyday lives.

• Ethnographic research
• Participant observation
• Qualitative interviewing
• Participatory research methods
• Focus group discussions
• Life history methods
• Qualitative data analysis
• Co-creation and collaborative research

Research group

Healthy Futures: The Effects of Invisible Support in Care for Intergenerational Health

Ethnographic research exploring how informal and often invisible forms of care shape maternal wellbeing and intergenerational health among refugee women in Greece.

Grants and Honors