Melissa Ceuterick
Supervisor
Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Melissa Ceuterick is a postdoctoral researcher at Hedera UGent. In her PhD she focused on the impact of migration on traditional medicine use among people of Andean descent in the UK (Bradford University, 2009). Her research is situated at the intersections between 1) medication use and identity and 2) migration and health. She coordinates and supervises qualitative research in these areas, i.e. Belspo BENZONET, BENZOCARE, REMEDI; IBOF Opioid-related Stigma and FWO Red Noses Culture-Sensitive Stigma Survey, STAMINA. Since 2017 she is a lecturer-in-charge of the Health Sociology and Social Demography Seminar (UGent), where students develop a Community Service Learning project on health or migration, and of various health sociology courses (UGent-VUB). As of 2023 she is a member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology.
Email: Melissa.Ceuterick@UGent.be
Phone: +32 9 264 68 01
Research themes:
Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-ceuterick-87240424/
Recent publications
Dependence vs. addiction : a critical discourse analysis of Belgian policy documents on opioid use in chronic pain management
Lena De Bonte
UGent, Justine Vanbavinckhove
UGent, Liesbet Goubert
UGent, Fleur Baert
UGent, Peter Pype
UGent, Sam Schelfout
UGent, Sónia Bernardes, Bart Morlion and Melissa Ceuterick
UGent
(2026)
DRUGS-EDUCATION PREVENTION AND POLICY.
p.1-13
Individuals with chronic pain using opioids : challenging treatment choices, shared decision-makers, or risk-makers? A critical discourse analysis of Belgian policy documents
Lena De Bonte
UGent, Justine Vanbavinckhove
UGent, Liesbet Goubert
UGent, Fleur Baert
UGent, Peter Pype
UGent, Sam Schelfout
UGent, Sonia Bernardes, Bart Morlion and Melissa Ceuterick
UGent
(2026)
HEALTH.
Medicinal plant use in a context of coloniality : Congolese perspectives on lost and preserved healing traditions in Belgium
Emiel De Meyer
UGent, Sarah Derveeuw
UGent, Césarine Sinatu Bolya, Eduardo de la Peña
UGent and Melissa Ceuterick
UGent
(2025)
JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE.
21(1).