Who they are
Dr. J.A. (Jeanet) Landsman-Dijkstra is a senior researcher at Applied Health Research (Toegepast GezondheidsOnderzoek, TGO) in the Department of Health Sciences at the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG). She co-led, with Andrea Fokkens, the four-year participatory action research project De Sensatie van een Goed Leven (The Sensation of a Good Life, 2016–2020), which produced the sensonate.nl platform and is the direct intellectual ancestor of this wiki. See De Sensatie van een Goed Leven for the project history.
Landsman-Dijkstra’s significance is foundational. Without the SGL project, this wiki’s knowledge base wouldn’t exist. Her methodology—participatory action research using Adapted Intervention Mapping—set the standard: collaborative knowledge-building with autistic people and people with intellectual disabilities as co-producers.
Key contributions
Co-leading the SGL project
The SGL project (2016–2020) was funded by ZonMw as part of the Gewoon Bijzonder knowledge programme and brought together over 50 network partners across care organisations, advocacy groups, academic institutions, and education. The project’s outputs include the sensonate.nl platform, peer-reviewed publications, and the knowledge frameworks (prikkelbalans, prikkelprofiel, prikkeltaal) that form the foundation of Dutch sensory processing work.
Landsman-Dijkstra’s contribution was methodological: designing and leading participatory research that ensured diverse stakeholders—including people with intellectual disabilities—had genuine input into what was studied and how findings were shared.
Applied health research focus
Landsman-Dijkstra’s research at TGO focuses on applied health research designed to produce practical outcomes. SGL exemplifies this: the project didn’t just study sensory processing, it created a platform for sharing knowledge with the community that generated it.
Critical assessment
Landsman-Dijkstra’s SGL publications provide foundational evidence for this wiki’s science section, particularly the 2018 literature synthesis. However, English-language visibility is limited—most outputs are in Dutch. The internationalisation of these insights, which this wiki supports, aims to make SGL knowledge accessible to wider audiences.
Selected works
- van Berckelaer-Onnes, I.A., Dijkxhoorn, Y.M., & Hufen, M. (2018). Literature synthesis for the SGL project. — The foundational evidence review for sensonate.nl.
- SGL project outputs via sensonate.nl (2020).
Last reviewed
2026-04-15