Teaching

Teaching

Edith de Vast, one of my former students, has won the KWALON award for best qualitative thesis in the Netherlands 2007-2008. Congratulations Edith. See the link below or  http://www.fmg.uva.nl/sociologie_en_antropologie/actueel.cfm .


In the the past I have tought the following courses:

  • Theme's and region's in medical anthropology and sociology
  • Practices of care
  • Qualitative Data Analysis
  • Several guest lectures (sociology, International School) 
  • Introduction to sociology and anthropology for medical students
  • Introduction to sociology
  • Recent debates in sociology 
  • Sociological Theory
  • Historical-comparative anthropology / sociology
  • Research workshops


I am supervising PhD´s, research (master) en bachelor students with their thesis. In the first semester of the year 2009-2010 I am working at the TU Berlin.

At the moment I am co-promotor of:


Bert de Graaff: http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.b.degraaff/

In August 2010 Bert de Graaff graduated with distinction at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis entitled 'I am my own laboratory - electrohypersensitivity enacted', an article on the everyday practices of those claiming to be electrohypersensitive within the context of an epistemic-policital conflict regarding health and technology.

From July 2010 onwards Bert is employed as PhD-student at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) in the project 'Politics and Risk Communication' (PARC) on EMF health risk perception and the effect of politics on risk communication. Herein he is supervised by prof. dr. J.W. Duyvendak, dr. C. Bröer and dr. F. Woudenberg. This five-year research program, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Municipal Health Service and financed by ZonMW, will investigate the changes within citizens' perceptions of risk regarding the installation of UMTS-base stations on a local level using a mixed-methods, longitudinal design. Cases will beselected within the Netherlands and abroad, ensuring the possibility of intra- and cross-cultural comparison of findings. As the health effects of exposure to EMF emitted by these base-stations remains uncertain, this case will specifically illuminate the pertinent question where people's worries originate from, and the influence of governmental riskcommunication on these worries. Do worries increase, or decrease when citizens are being informed, and involved in the decision-making proces around an uncertain issue?

Noortje Thijssen http://wetenschappelijkbureau.groenlinks.nl/node/10172

Noortje Thijssen heeft sociologie gestudeerd aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Samen met Bart Snels was ze secretaris van de commissie die het verkiezingsprogramma van GroenLinks in 2006 schreef. Momenteel werkt zeaan een proefschrift over de jaren zestig. Ze onderzoekt hoe dit decennium wordt herinnerd en beoordeeld door politici en commentatoren in het debat en hoe zij deze periode claimen in een strijd om politieke macht.



Judith Elshout,   http://www.aissr.uva.nl/dynamics/projects.cfm/5239B3B9-7116-4F58-9D5ED55108033D38  



Here are some examples of the kind of MA or BA thesis I supervised as a first supervisor:

  • Edith de Vast: ethnographic comparison of large-scale and small scale home's for demented elderly  
  • Nora van der Linden: Leefbaar Rotterdam voters: reflexive or straightfoward
  • Marthe van Andel: Stigmatization of school children with HIV
  • Robbie Vos: creating the authenticity of electric hypersensitivity
  • Femke van Leeuwen: dealing with loss after suicide
  • Lumi Holopainen: psychotherapy on TV in Romania 
  • Marjolein Heerings: adults with ADHD, discourse and identity
  • Chantal Smeekens: stigmatization and anti-stigmatization of HIV  / AIDS within Philippine families
  • Bert de Graaff, Electrohypersensitivity in daily life (graduated cum laude)
  • Eva van der Meer, the effect of media reports on risk perception
  • Iwan van der Meer, identification of victims and perpetrators of domesticviolence
  • Marieke Boele van Hensbroek, aggression against ambulance personel
  • Marieke Kroezen, the effect of health prevention on risk perception
  • Nienke van Sambeek, diagnose relatedgroups(DBC in Dutch) and psy-professionals (graduated cum laude)

 

 

 

 

 

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