Wouter Servaas

MSc Cultural Anthropology and the Sociology of non-Western Societies (Universiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands)

email : w.servaas@sheffield.ac.uk

Thesis title / scope of research

The final title of my research is not known yet, so for now it's "Rural childhoods in the Netherlands; children's experiences and parents' expectations"

This project is self-funded and funded via a departmental tuition fee waiver.

Supervisor(s)

• Professor Allison James

Other experience / research interests

• Brock University, St. Catharines (Ontario), Canada: ISEP exchange with the Department of Child & Youth Studies
• Porto Alegre, Brazil: children's lifeworlds and political awareness in a context of possible social exclusion and participatory politics. Thesis: "Vivemos num laboratório político" - An ethnography about lifeworlds and political ideas of children in Porto Alegre
• Serpins, Portugal: family-based farms and their relations with the European Union's agricultural policy. Thesis: "So para casa" (in Dutch)