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SHORT 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.

WORK DETAILS

FIRST NAME AND LAST NAME Katrijn Vanhees

POSITION PhD Research Fellow

EMAIL Katrijn.Vanhees[@]UGent.be

TELEPHONE +32 (0)9 264 97 61

SECRETARIAT +32 (0)9 264 69 11

WORKING DAYS Monday – Friday

OFFICE HOURS 09.00 h – 17.00 h

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

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

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

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

SIDELINE ACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIPS

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

EXPERTISE

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

PUBLICATIONS

Katrijn Vanhees is a starting doctoral research fellow, but wrote already two master theses.

KATRIJN VANHEES: Property Rights for Women in Rwanda, 2014. Universiteit Gent. Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid Vakgroep RE22 Full text http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/002/163/017/RUG01-002163017_2014_0001_AC.pdf

KATRIJN VANHEES: Russische vluchtelingen tijdens het interbellum in België. “Wij zijn de golf van Rusland die aanspoelt op haar oevers, wijdverspreid over de hele wereld.” UGent. Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte. 2011.Thesis:Diss. master. Full text http://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/786/458/RUG01-001786458_2012_0001_AC.pdf

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