YES (Young Excellent Scholars) Research Internship Programme
YES (Young Excellent Scholars) Research Internship Programme The YES Research Internship Programme is designed exclusively for students from Dutch universities who are nearing the end of their studies and have achieved outstanding results in the relevant study areas, and who wish to undertake a combined internship and thesis (stage/scriptie). The programme is also open to recent graduates who wish to gain research experience during a limited period or who would like to specialize on the themes listed below, which form part of the CEDLA research programme. See also other research areas. The selected students will take part in an ongoing research project during which they will be individually and intensively guided and supervised. They will have access to CEDLA facilities, including office space and the use of a computer. At the end of the period, the participant will receive a written certificate and, in consultation with each participant, a number of academic credits (studiepunten) appropriate to his or her contribution. The appointment is for a period of six months with the possibility of an extension being granted at the end of the first three months. Read more
YES Student Alice Ferguson
Alice Ferguson completed the Master’s Program Latin American Studies (cum laude) at CEDLA in 2011, after having returned from a 5-year stay in Guatemala working with local education projects. As a social and cultural scientist, formerly graduated in Cultural Studies at the Erasmus University, and from her experiences in the field she has developed a keen interest in youth culture. The central theme of her research is how processes of major socioeconomic change, urbanization, migration and globalization, are shaping the lives of today’s young-adults in Latin American cities. Her master’s thesis described the lives of students influenced by rapid societal changes in Lima, the capital city of Peru, addressing the emergence of new middle classes as well as the fusion of identities and influences of 'global youth culture'. Besides working on several publications on Lima, she is now preparing her PhD proposal to continue her research on these topics in the Northeast Region of Brazil.
YES Student Karolien van Teijlingen
Karolien van Teijlingen is a Human Geographer who is currently enrolled in the Research Master International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests concern a broad range of development issues in South America, particularly Ecuador. In her bachelor thesis she focused on the impact of road construction on the livelihood strategies of indigenous forest dwellers in the Ecuadorian Amazon. During her Masters, she researched the livelihoods and the labor situation of Cuban and Colombian refugees and asylum seekers living in urban centers in Ecuador.
Karolien is now preparing a master’s thesis on natural resource governance and mining conflicts in Ecuador. An analysis of the conflicting actors, their strategies and notions of development surrounding the first large-scale mining project in Ecuador (El Mirador) will be central to her thesis.
YES Student Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga
Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga is an Ecuadorian lawyer with a LLM in International Protection of Human Rights and Criminal Justice from Utrecht University, a LLM in International Criminal Law from Granada University, and three Higher Diplomas from Alicante University (in Legal Argumentation), the Andean University Simon Bolivar (in Human Rights) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (in Human Rights and Democracy). He worked at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for five and a half years and has published several papers about the Inter-American System of Human Rights and indigenous peoples’ rights. He is currently conducting a research at CEDLA as part of his PhD dissertation entitled ‘Indigenous Legal Systems in Ecuador and their Compatibility with Internationally Recognised Human Rights Standards’. The study at CEDLA will focus on traditional corporal punishments imposed by Ecuadorian indigenous communities under their customary law and the (in)compatibility of such punishments with the right not to be tortured or ill-treated.
YES Student Sara Koenders
Sara Koenders is a cultural anthropologist with an M.A. in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from Utrecht University. She has researched and written extensively about the human and political dimensions of social inequality, violence, and peacebuilding. Her master’s research in 2008 focused on the coping strategies of women in a Rio de Janeiro favela (shantytown) marked by violence, fear, and insecurity. Recently she resumed this research on urban violence and public security in Brazil, and she is now preparing a PhD proposal on the role of the police and illegal armed actors (drug gangs, militias) in the so-called “pacification” of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. This study will deal with the dynamics of local violence and the responses of residents and their organizations in communities under the control of these different armed actors."
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kees Koonings.
