Gil Keppens, PhD
A leading research in using design, data-collection, analysis, and valorization of qualitative and large-scale quantitative research to study absenteeism and truancy, Dr. Keppens is internally credited with work on examining partial absences and calling for change in measuring absenteeism. As a researcher fellow at Research Group TOR via the University of he actively engages in truancy, youth, sociology of education, and educational policy research. He believe that to use attendance monitoring within an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism, we need to know whether the attendance data collected by schools cover all students with (emerging) school attendance problems (SAP). Dr. Keppens serves as Vice President of the International Network for School Attendance, where he leads the scientific committee on defining what research is need in the area of absenteeism world-wide.