Robyn Ausmeier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender & Diversity at Radboud University. Her research focuses on doing Gender Studies in changing political climates in the Netherlands, examining the particular experiences of educators and researchers working in Gender Studies as well as related fields. The research employs qualitative [...]
Sharon Anyango is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. She holds an MA in Globalization and Development Studies and an MBA in Project Management. Prior, she was a Teaching Fellow at FASoS and a staff representative in the University Council. Her research, funded [...]
Antonella Buono PhD project conduts a study on the consolatory reading of Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) at Philosophy department of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Christine's work has yet to be acknowledged as significant within the academic sphere and continues to be excluded from the established [...]
Rana Kuseyri (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her project is tentatively titled, “Data Subjects: Algorithmic Imaginaries and Legal Consciousness of Welfare Recipients in the Dutch Datafied Welfare State.” Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the digital and datafied [...]
David Lyons is a joint PhD candidate at Utrecht University and the University of Bologna within the programme of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, specifically being part of the EDGES curriculum (women's and gender studies). The preliminary title of his project is Painting with Words: Re-Envisioning Gender Discourse and [...]
Weronika Zielińska-Klein is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM). Trained as an artist (BA, Willem de Kooning Academy, RUAS) and researcher (MAR, University of Amsterdam), she has been running Upominki, a project space in her family home [...]
Lisa Burghardt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. Within the project, she conducts research on how we can assess the experience of audiences being immersed in VR [...]
Laurence Herfs is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine: Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. She conducts research into the representation of refugees, migrants and the suffering Other within immersive and VR media technologies. For [...]
María Auxiliadora (Auxi) Castillo Soto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, more specifically in Literary and Gender Studies; and she is part of the EUTERPE Project: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. For this project, she analyzes how European belonging and [...]
Fleur Renkema is a PhD candidate at the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. Her project aims to write a cultural history of the gay and lesbian left in the Netherlands in the period of 1970-1990. Her research mainly focuses on the ideologies and cultural practices of leftist gay [...]
Charlie Loopuijt (he/they), a PhD candidate at Radboud University’s Department of Language and Communication, explores trans linguistics and queer health with the research titled, Linguistic Desire Paths: Exploring Strategies of Transgender and Non-Binary Identity Expression through Language Play and Negotiation. Exploring how transgender and non-binary folks forge new linguistic avenues to [...]
Camila Andrea Malig Jedlicki is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry of Utrecht University. Her research investigates how colonial legacies are negotiated by different actors in their pursuit of social justice in European art museums and the influence their involvement has on contesting colonial legacies. It focuses on [...]
