Biography
Gijs Custers is an assistant professor at the Department of Law, Society and Crime of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
He is currently developing the following lines of research:
1) How various social processes (e.g., gentrification, racialisation, criminalisation) affect neighbourhood stigma over time, and the role of different actors in this context. Through analysing a large corpus of media articles, Gijs will gain more insight into the causes and consequences of neighbourhood stigma, and how it varies across large scales of time and space.
2) How the label 'mild intellectual disability' (licht verstandelijke beperking) is used in the Dutch criminal justice system
Gijs further investigates what the effects of social policy are on educational mobility. In particular, he examines what the contribution of the National Program Rotterdam South (NPRZ), one of the largest urban policies in Dutch history, is in improving educational outcomes in Rotterdam.
His previous work includes studies of social inequality in social class, gentrification, neighbourhood effects, and citizen participation.
Gijs is experienced in applying quantitative methods (including matching techniques, multilevel modelling, latent class analysis, and GIS) and qualitative methods (interviewing). He is also interested in how computational text analysis can be used to study representations across time.
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Work
- Gijs Custers & Jannes J. Willems (2024) - Rotterdam in the 21st century: From ‘sick man’ to ‘capital of cool’ - Cities, 150 - doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105009 - [link]
- Gijs Custers, Fiore Geelhoed, Jing Hiah & Joost Jansen (2024) - Startersbeurzen voor universitair docenten criminologie - De Criminoloog (Nieuwsbrief van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie), 16, 9 - [link]
- Gijs Custers, Marjolijn Das & Godfried Engbersen (2023) - Change or stability in educational inequalities?: Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy - Urban Studies, 60 (14), 2852-2873 - doi: 10.1177/00420980231162774 - [link]
- Mo Zijlmans & Gijs Custers (2023) - De invloed van gentrificatie op verbondenheid met de buurt: Verschillen tussen etnische groepen in de stedelijke context - Mens en Maatschappij, 98 (2), 175-204 - doi: 10.5117/MEM2023.2.004.ZIJL
- Gijs Custers & Godfried Engbersen (2022) - Linking social capital and organizational ties: How different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor - Journal of Urban Affairs - doi: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2137032 - [link]
- Gijs Custers (2022) - De wooncrisis in Nederland: voorbij het idee van ‘natuurverschijnsel’ - Tijdschrift Sociologie, 3, 322-328 - doi: 10.38139/TS.2022.27
- Lisa Schouten & Gijs Custers (2022) - Waarom hoger opgeleiden zich tegen het politieke systeem keren: Een onderzoek naar de motieven van hoger opgeleiden om te stemmen op populistisch radicaal rechtse partijen - Mens en Maatschappij, 97 (2), 182-212 - doi: 10.5117/mem2022.2.004.scho - [link]
- Erik Snel, Jan de Boom, Matthieu Permentier & Gijs Custers (2022) - De groeiende leefbaarheidskloof tussen Rotterdamse wijken - [link]
- Erik Snel, Roy Geurs, Ympkje Albeda, David ter Avest, Gideon Bolt, Jan de Boom, Beitske Boonstra, Ilona van Breugel, Gijs Custers, Wenda Doff, Tamar Fischer, Jeroen Frissen, Sander van der Ham, Kees Leidelmeijer, André Ouwehand, Matthijs Uyterlinde, Gabry Vanderveen, Karen Welp & Linda Zuijderwijk (2022) - Zicht op leefbaarheid: Tien essays over leefbaarheid in Rotterdamse wijken
- Gijs Custers (2021) - The new divided city: Class transformation, civic participation and neighbourhood context - [link]
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- Start date approval
- March 2024
- End date approval
- February 2027
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Secretaris
Urban issues, culture and crime
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RIMC04
Methodology and Statistics I
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RC103
Crime and Society
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RC108
Urban Issues, Culture and Crime
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RQ88
Thesis Master Criminology
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- RS133