Katrijn Vanhees

Affiliated Researcher

Email Katrijn.Vanhees[@]UGent.be
Phone +32 (0)9 264 97 61

Katrijn Vanhees' Bio

Katrijn Vanhees is a PhD Research Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, with a scholarship of VLIR-UOS. After finishing her studies in History at Ghent University (2011), she completed her Masters in Law (2014).

The PhD project focuses on women’s land rights in Rwanda. The research tends to investigate the underlying causes of women’s restricted access to land in Rwanda by studying the gender-based division of socio-economic power and resources in the household and the local community as a whole. In addition, it will analyze how this gender bargaining concept is approached by the Abunzi committee, the local judicial forum.

Katrijn Vanhees' Featured Research Projects

Gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTIQ Rights

Improving land access for Rwandan women

By Katrijn Vanhees & Prof. Dr. Eva Brems

Rights of ethnic, cultural and religious minorities

Discrimination and diversity in Belgian swimming pools

By Dr. Saïla Ouald-Chaib & Prof. Dr. Eva Brems

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Katrijn Vanhees' Publications

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Katrijn Vanhees' Professional Positions

PhD Research Fellow at the Human Rights Centre, Ghent University (Dec 2014 – Nov 2017)

Katrijn Vanhees' Education

University Degrees

Bachelor of Arts in History, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Ghent University) [2009]
Master of Arts in History, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (Ghent University) [2011]
Master in Laws, Faculty of Law (Ghent University) [2014]
PhD candidate for Doctor of Laws, Doctoral School of Arts, Law and Humanities, Ghent University [2014-present]

Additional (inter)national (human rights) courses taken

Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Law, Erasmus Mundus exchange under the TRANSITION-Belgium/Flanders Fellowship Program

Katrijn Vanhees' Sideline activities/memberships

Affiliated with the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development, University of Rwanda

Katrijn Vanhees' work details

Contact Hours: On appointment
Visiting Address: Paddenhoek 5, 1st Floor, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Postal Address: Ghent University, Campus Aula, Human Rights Centre, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Secretariat: +32 (0)9 264 69 11
Working days: Monday - Friday
Office hours: 09.00 h – 17.00 h

Katrijn Vanhees' expertise

Land rights from a gender perspective
Women’s rights in Africa
Legal pluralism

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