Civic Innovation researchers

Civic Innovation Research Initiative - researching gender, ecology, conflict, civil society, frugal innovation, fair-trade, reproductive health, labour rights

The Civic Innovation research group works with a wide variety of researchers including ISS faculty, post-docs, visiting researchers and PhD candidates.

ISS faculty and post-docs

PhD researchers
PhD researcherThesis working title
Anna EliasExploring the extent of impact that digital platforms have on livelihoods in the informal sector
Anne BrinkmanDeveloping insights into alternative human development efforts with a focus on the use of different perspectives to advance civic logic in conflict-affected societies
Azucena Moran GollazExploring the embodied and intersectional city experience of women and the reconfigurations they seek and make in the urban spaces through their daily trajectories to work by public transportation in Guadalajara, Mexico
Brenda Rodriguez Cortés 
Chitrakshi VashishtInvisible within Invisibility: Intimate partner violence amongst transgender people in India
Daniele Rossi DoriaInstitutional bricolage and water governance - Exploring farmer-driven appropriation of water user association in rural Morocco
Delu Lusambya MwenebyakeUnderstanding how the bottoms-up accountability and advocacy are being implemented in the DRC
Dena ZakiGender analysis of intimate violence among the Egyptian-Dutch community in the Netherlands
Emmanuel Otto Omony 
Esther Beckley (Visiting PhD researcher) 
Evert de Witte 
Fiorella Macchiavello FerradasDiscussing development in emergent countries within the background of global production networks
Gabriela Villacis IzquierdoA feminist humanitarian action? Possibilities and encounters: Learning from the experiences of crisis affected populations in Colombia
Hati GitunduExploring multilevel risk governance arrangements of non-dominant partners and construction of resilience among the urban poor
Hyeonggeun JiExploring the emerging humanitarian responses to climate-related displacement with a particular emphasis on knowledge process and political dynamics
Ilaha AbasliRe:Construct - Seeking to understand the social dimension of transition to Circular Economy in the low and middle-income contexts
Irma NugrahantiGender-responsive climate budgeting in Indonesia: Mitigating climate change and advancing gender equality
Jameson LinglTowards a general theory of conflict: An examination of zero-sum thinking in conflict dynamics at the intersection of systems, situations and psychology
Julián Naranjo Vasco 
Jonathan Moniz 
Julienne De Jesus Andrade 
Lisa-Marlen Gronemeier 
Lisa Peterson 
Lize SwartzUntil death do us part: The politics of water scarcity in South Africa and implications for environmental citizenship
Luciana Dos Santos DuarteThe fabric of the forest: scaling-up Amazonian native rubber technologies in fashion value chains
Maria Ines Cubides KovacsicsDoing collaborative and participatory research with people engaging in transactional sex: Humanitarian actors and academic researchers in Pakistan, Colombia, DRC and the Netherlands
Maria KypriotouExploring the trajectories and spaces of youth engagement with international development institutions
Maria Pineda EscobarUnderstanding the pending question of the connection between frugal innovation and sustainability
Marije Balt 
Ralph Willem Hoetmer 
Saba Al KuntarExploring the experience of refugee entrepreneurs in setting up businesses amid uncertain conditions
Shenia Cassiano de OliveiraThe sexual exploitation of children in tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic
Shozo Sakata 
Sumbal BashirNegotiating digital spaces: A study of feminist activism on online platforms
Toktam Ashnaiy 
Umbreen SalimKitchens, politics, places, temporalities & Pakistani migrant women negotiating mandatory integration in the cities of The Hague and Amsterdam

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