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
Understanding quality of life in chronic non-cancer pain : untangling the associations between medication use, psychosocial functioning, and stigma
Justine Vanbavinckhove
UGent, Maité Van Alboom
UGent, Fleur Baert
UGent, Melissa Ceuterick
UGent, Peter Pype
UGent, Koen Boussery
UGent, Piet Bracke
UGent, Bart Morlion and Liesbet Goubert
UGent
(2026)
QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH.
35(7).
Psychotherapists’ discursive constructions of culture and cultural conversations in therapy
Hilde Depauw
UGent, Piet Bracke
UGent, Bart Van de Putte
UGent and Melissa Ceuterick
UGent
(2026)
QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH.
School matters : a multilevel analysis of stigma, supportive relations and adolescents’ mental health help-seeking attitudes
Lies Saelens
UGent, Piet Bracke
UGent, Melissa Ceuterick
UGent and Fanny D’hondt
(2026)
JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE.
55(6).
p.1374-1387