Brief description

Jacobijn Olthoff has a background in International Development Studies (MA - Radboud University Nijmegen) and Anthropology (PhD - Utrecht University), and extensive work and research experience in the Global South (e.g. Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Guatemala, India, Philippines and Georgia).

Her research interests include children and youth in urban areas, participation of children and youth, children's rights and the work of NGOs related to children and youth in the Global South. Theoretically, her work is linked to interdisciplinary debates concerning socialisation of adolescents and youth, questions of agency and structure and more generally debates on childhood and children's rights.

Current responsibilities:

• Programme Director Master's in International Development Studies
• Assistant professor in IDS/ Children's Rights (for courses taught, see linkabove)

Here you may find my CV: 

• Curriculum Vitae

Courses taught: current (2011-2012)

• Children and International Development (Ba)
• Situating Children in Development: Theory and Practice (Ma)
• Research Methods and techniques for doing fieldwork in IDS (Ma)

Courses taught: past

• Introduction to International Development Studies (Ba)
• Understanding Children's Rights (Ma)
• Research Methods and Techniques: Childhood and Children's Rights Research (Ma)
• Deprived Children in Development (Ma)
  

• Link to Uva course manual

Links:

www.enmcr.net   - Website of the European Network of Masters in Children's Rights, to which GPIO/UvA is a founding member.

www.yemaya-consultancy.nl   - Company through which I ocasionally carry out consultancy jobs

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