Job van 't Veer is professor of Digital Innovation in Healthcare at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. He studied Applied Communication Sciences at the University of Twente (1994-1999). In 2006, he obtained a PhD from the same university for his research on public perception of people with a psychiatric background.
In 2004, he started teaching Psychology at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in the then department of Welfare Studies. He was involved in educational development around practice-based research in the Bachelor and Master Social Work. He was also responsible as project leader for the creation of the Master Digital Innovation in Healthcare (now Health Innovation), which started in 2015.
As a (practical) researcher, he has worked at several professorships since 2007, dealing with various issues focused on the social participation of vulnerable groups. These included the reintegration of people with a mental illness, tackling loneliness among the elderly and promoting self-reliance among people with mild intellectual disabilities.
Since 2012, he has been working on the topic of digital innovation in healthcare and was an associate professor at the professorship iHuman | Welfare Care Digital since that year. In that role, he already led several research projects on this theme. In recent years, he was responsible for establishing and leading projects such as SoVaTAss (RAAK Publiek) and project NATALIE (ZonMw), but was also closely involved in Vital Regions (Interreg) and FAITH (RAAK Sprong), among others. More recent projects he is involved with within the professorship include the projects 'Anders werken in de Zorg Friesland' and 'Deskundigheidsbevordering Zorgtechnologie' (development budget Wet Langdurige zorg Friesland) and he is co-initiator of the MEE Lab project (a long-term cooperation with welfare organisation MEE Noord). Within all these projects with the field, the emphasis is always on a design-oriented approach: how can we, together with clients, patients, residents and professionals, make care and support better in an innovative (and possibly digital) way? This sometimes focuses more on the design of the digital tools themselves, sometimes more on the implementation of these innovations.
Many of these research experiences contributed to the creation of the textbook 'Ontwerpen voor Zorg en Welzijn' (2020), of which he is first author. Partly based on this, he is involved in the programmes of academy Social Studies and academy Health Care, where educational development is focused on Design Based Education (DBE) or design-oriented working.