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Introducing Thirza Andriessen, PhD of RSO and CHL

article_published_on_label: May 14, 2019

I am Thirza Andriessen, 26 years old, living in Utrecht and I got one of the two PhD scholarships offered by the WASS open round this year. For the next five years I will be dedicated to understand the dignity of food aid receivers in Europe.

Dr. Hilje van der Horst (CHL) and Dr. Oona Morrow (RSO) will supervise me and Prof. Dr. Ir. Han Wiskerke (RSO) is the promotor of this project.

A little bit of my educational background: I got my bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University and last year I graduated from the master ‘Health and Society’ here at Wageningen University. For my bachelor thesis I conducted research about anti-racism activism in St. Louis (USA) and my master thesis was about dignity of the food aid receivers of a social grocery store in Belgium, called ‘Filet Divers’.

I am excited to start here and hope to get to know you all during the upcoming weeks while getting coffee or tea, having lunch together or at seminars. Currently my desk is at room 2061, feel free to stop by.

Best wishes,

Thirza Andriessen

Promotor prof.dr.ir. JSC (Han) Wiskerke

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Rural Sociology

The Rural Sociology Group (RSO) studies the dynamics of food provisioning, agrarian change, and rural and regional development with an international comparative perspective. Specific attention is paid to the different levels at which transformation processes occur and are shaped, as well as to the different actors, institutions and modes of political organization involved. We study and analyse these transformation processes from a range of critical sociological perspectives, combining qualitative and quantitative research methods.