Education

Master degree Political Science (international relations), University of Amsterdam

Master degree Human Geography (urban geography), University of Amsterdam (Cum Laude)

PhD Human Geography (urban geography), University of Amsterdam (Cum Laude)

Current Research Topics

School choice and residential choice

Middle class disaffiliation and new forms of segregation

Mobility and embodiment

New relations between city and suburb

Residential trajectories of the middle classes

Completed research projects

* Residential preferences of higher educated workers (2012-2014)

* Young people on the Amsterdam housing market (2013)

PhD Dissertation

Urban middle-class families.
The study investigates how practices of young middle-class urbanites change when they become parents. It establishes a link between the neighbourhood as place of residence andtheway in which lives are socially and spatially organised. The project combines time-space budget approaches with Bourdieu's theories on practice and taste. It will research the scale of urban middle-class family life, the meaning of place in family life, and the way in which class position structures different residential practices within the middle classes.

Publications

Boterman, W.R. & Bridge, G (2014) Gender, class and space in the field of parenthood: comparing middle class fractions in Amsterdam and London, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, DOI: 10.1111/tran.12073

Sleutjes, B. & Boterman, W.R. (2014) De Woonvoorkeuren van Internationale Kenniswerkers, in: Raspe, O. et al. Buitenlandse Kenniswerkers in Nederland, Den Haag: Planbureau voor de leefomgeving 

Sleutjes, B. & Boterman, W.R. (2014) Stated preferences of international knowledge workers in the Netherlands, Den Haag/Amsterdam: Verdus/Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Hochstenbach, C & W.R.Boterman  (2014) Navigating the field of housing, housing pathways of young people in Amsterdam, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, DOI: 10.1007/s10901-014-9405-6

Boterman, W.R. & B.Sleutjes (2014) Stated preferences of Stated residential preferences of higher educated workers in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, Den Haag/Amsterdam: Verdus/Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Boterman, W.R. & W.P.C. Van Gent (2014) Housing Liberalization and Gentrification. The Social Effects of Tenure Conversions in Amsterdam, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 105 (2).

Boterman, W.R. (2014) Gentrification en de terugkeer van middenklassegezinnen naar Amsterdam, in:Bakens, De Groot, H.,Mulder, P.& J, Pen, C-J, Soort zoekt soort: Clustering en sociaal-economische scheidslijnen in Nederland, Platform 31, Den Haag 

Boterman, W.R. & L.Karsten (2014) On the spatial dimension of the gender division of paid work in two-parent families: the case of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 105 (1) 107-116.

Boterman, W.R., C.Hochstenbach, R.Ronald & M.Sleurink (2013) Duurzame Toegankelijkheid van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt voor starters, Amsterdam: Centre for Urban Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Boterman , W. R . (2013) Dealing with Diversity. Middle-class family households and the issue of 'black' and 'white' schools in Amsterdam, Urban Studies  50:1130-1147.

Boterman , W. R (2012). Residential Mobility of Urban Middle Class Parents in the Field of Parenthood ,  Environment and Planning A, 44: 2397-2412.

Boterman , W. R (2012). Residential Practices of Middle Classes in the Field of Parenthood, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, dissertation. 

Boterman , W. R (2012). Deconstructing Coincidence. How middle-class households use various forms of capital to find a home, Housing Theory & Society 29 (3), 321-338.

Boterman, W. R., Karsten, L & S. Musterd (2010).
Gentrifiers settling down? Patterns and trends of residential location of middle-class families in Amsterdam, Housing Studies 25 (5).

Boterman, W. (2005) De stad is anders; Gentrification in Kopenhagen als distinctiestrategie, Agora 4.   

Teaching

2014                                 Qualitative Methods 

2014                                 Advanced Urban Studies

2010-2014                        Urban Geography

2013-2015                        Research apprenticeship

2013                                 Master thesis-project on gentrification

2013                                 Literture course gentrification

2012-2013                        Lectures gentrification at the International Summer School of Housing Studies 

2011                                 Bachelor Buitenlandervaring

2008-2010                        Dynamics of Urban Regions

2008                                 Public Space (Scriptieproject)

2006                                 Media Cultuur en Maatschappij

• Urban Cycling Institute

• Academia profile

• Research gate profile

• Gentrification en Gezinnen in Amsterdam

• No ancillary activities