Inge Hutter is Rector of the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), and Professor of Participatory and Qualitative Research in Population and Development, since August 2015. Before joining ISS, she was Professor of Demography, Vice Dean and Dean Research at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. Since April 2021, she is Academic Lead Erasmian Values and Culture (in leadership) in the EUR Strategy 2024 Creating Positive Societal Impact.
She conducted research on population and health (reproductive and sexual health, nutrition, ageing) and development in India, Cameroon and Malawi. She is highly experienced in conducting fieldwork in the Global South. She has supervised related PhD research in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ghana, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, and the Northern Netherlands.
She adopts a participatory approach to research, i.e. involving societal stakeholders from the very beginning of a research project, thus ensuring that research not only leads to scientific publications but also to policies and actions and is relevant for society.
She is an expert in qualitative research; together with Monique Hennink (Emory University, Atlanta) and Ajay Bailey (Utrecht University) she wrote the book Qualitative Research Methods with Sage (2011, 2020) which is widely used within several academic disciplines all over the world. The second edition added two chapters on participatory qualitative research.
