Research Master Graduates at Work in Academia

Dr. Samira van Bohemen

Assistant Professor,  Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD Thesis 2015:  The magic of the Red Hat: A study in the sociology of play and identity performance
Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Postdoc project: Good Sex: How Young People Perceive and Practice Good Sex
Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dafna Burema, MSc

PhD candidate, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (Germany)

PhD project:  Robots and eldercare: An overview of the machines, the users, and the state

Oliva Dung, MSc 

PhD candidate, Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University

PhD project: Garbage Matters: A comparative history of waste in East Asia

Anne van Eldik, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus university Rotterdam

PhD-project: Urban media engagement: how young people construct an urban identity through their creative media use

Nicky van Es, MSc

PhD Candidate, Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: Reading Places’: A contemporary account of the performed ‘afterlives’ of texts on location through the literary tourists’ experiences and imagination

Dr. Amber Geurts

Scientific researcher, the Netherlands Organization for applied scientific research TNO

PhD thesis 2017: Strategic responses to disruptive innovations - A study of digitization in the Dutch music industry.
School of Economics and Business, University of Groningen

Postdoc project: Forging Science Ahead
Depts. of Management Studies and Applied Physics, Aalto University, Finland

Yu-Chin Her

PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

PhD project: Like brother, like sister: Sibling influence on their respective life courses

Leonard van ‘t Hul, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of History, University of Amsterdam

PhD project: Religion renegotiated: faith-based organizations and the state in the Netherlands since the 1960s

Vatan Hüzeir, MSc

PhD candidate,  Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD Project: Citizen activism in fields of climate change and energy transition

Josje ten Kate, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: The role of cultural factors in contemporary social disparities

Roy Kemmers, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD Project: Contemporary popular discontents about politics

Karen Klijnhout, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus university Rotterdam

PhD project: Competing conceptions of city culture and cultural diversity

Rian Koreman, ,MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus university Rotterdam

PhD project: Constructing Cultural Authority. The Online and Offline Evaluation of Popular Music and Fiction Books

Dr. Janna Michael

Postdoctoral researcher,  Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Research project: Gameful music performances for smart, inclusive, and sustainable societies

PhD thesis 2017: Negotiating normalcy and difference: Discourses on cultural taste and symbolic boundaries.
Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Anouk Mols, MSc

PhD Candidate, Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: Mapping privacy and surveillance dynamics in emerging mobile ecosystems: Practices and contexts in the Netherlands and United States

Tim van Meurs, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology and Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: How to provide health information to those who need it most

Dr. José Nederhand

Assistant professor, Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD thesis 2019:  Smart governance innovations in public-private partnerships
Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Dr. Carly O’Neill

Teaching fellow, School of Sociology and School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds (UK)

PhD thesis 2018: The Cynic’s guide to shopping for morals. On the commodification of morality in consumer culture.
School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds

Jochem van Noord, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology, Free University (VUB), Brussels (Belgium)

PhD project: Education-based status and its effects on political participation

Kjell Noordzij, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus university Rotterdam

PhD project: The role of status as cultural capital in contemporary political conflicts

Alina Pavlova, MSc

PhD candidate,  Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Auckland, (New Zealand)

PhD Project: Medical compassion

Julia Peters, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Sociology, Ghent University (Belgium)

PhD Project: Aesthetic regimes, social characteristics of visual artists, and cultural consecration: A diachronic sociological analysis of artists´ subsidies between 1965 and 1999 in Flanders

Anneke Pons-de Wit, MSc

PhD candidate, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Leuven (Belgium)

PhD project: Impact of religious diversity in contemporary society on the formation of religious identities 

Matthijs Punt, MSc

PhD candidate,  Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University

PhD project: The Genealogy of novelty: An evolutionary explanation of breakthrough inventions in science, technology and the arts

Dr. Nadine Raaphorst

Assistant Professor, Faculty of  Governance and Public Affairs, Leiden University

PhD thesis 2017: Uncertainty in bureaucracy: Towards a sociological understanding of front line decision making.  
Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus university Rotterdam

Dr. Julian Schaap

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD thesis 2019: Has Elvis finally left the Building? Boundary work, whiteness, and the reception of rock music in comparative perspective.
Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Rosa Schiavone, MSc

PhD candidate,  Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: Worlds of imagination: A comparative study of film tourism in India, Nigeria, Jamaica, South Korea and the United Kingdom

Iris Segers, MSc

PhD Candidate, Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo (Norway)

PhD project: Hands off our women!’ - European right-wing anti-immigrant outrage on social media

Thomas Teekens, MSc

PhD candidate, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Groningen

PhD project: Sustainable collaborative networks. Design, dynamics, and decay of cooperation in a multilevel organizational field

Dr. Aleit Veenstra

Media researcher, GFK

PhD thesis 2017: Screen(ing) Audiences. Digital screen culture to the test: a large scale study on young film audiences in Flanders.
Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Antwerp (Belgium)

Vivian Visser, MSc

PhD candidate, Dept. of Public Administration and Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD Project: How public authorities ‘create space’ for citizen initiatives, especially in the spatial domain

Dr. Sandra Wagemakers

Researcher, ECBO- Knowledge center for education and labor market

PhD thesis 2017:  Brabant is here. Making sense of regional identification
Dept. of Culture Studies, Tilburg University

Frank Weij

PhD candidate, Dept. of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project: Geopolitics of artivism: Comparing the attribution of societal impact and artistic qualities in te Western reception of art activists from democratic and authoritarian regimes

Bartek Zerebecki 

PhD candidate, Dept. of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam

PhD project:  Depolarizing Narratives: Online shows and the promotion of sociability with minorities and people with different points of view in Poland?