
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- huijsmans@iss.nl
Profile
Research agenda:
My research is concerned with how children and young people are affected by and contribute to societal development and change. For this I have studied young people’s role in migration, their engagement with schooling and (un)paid work, the role of mobile technologies in young people’s lives, popular culture and dance, young adults’ involvement in the gig economy, and young people’s engagement with the future through the concept of aspiration. In my research, I privilege the perspectives and experiences of children and youth and on this basis speak back to dominant ideas underpinning policy and practice. Much of my research takes an ethnographic approach and is mostly conducted in Southeast Asia (especially Laos) and Europe (especially the Netherlands). My research has been published in leading journals in Development Studies, Human Geography and Childhood & Youth studies, and in various books.
Teaching agenda:
I have taught across the ISS MA programme in development studies, contributing to the field of social policy, childhood and youth studies, research technique courses (ethnography), and general introductory courses to development studies. I also regularly give guest lectures at other universities in the Netherlands and abroad. My teaching is research based and engages with the experiences students bring into the classroom. In order to engage students with diverse learning styles I use (audio)visuals in my teaching and have experienced with various forms of blended learning. My overall approach to teaching is to guide students through the learning material and in doing so help them find and construct their own learning pathways.
- Nicola Ansell, Peggy Froerer & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Young People’s Aspirations in an Uncertain World: Taking Control of the Future? - Sociological Research Online, 27 (4), 795-802 - doi: 10.1177/13607804221133116 - [link]
- Peggy Froerer, Nicola Ansell & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future - Ethnography and Education, 17 (3), 179-185 - doi: 10.1080/17457823.2022.2075709 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans, Hamdu, Issaka Adams, Catalina Arango, Laura Avila & Daya Sudrajat (2022) - Platform Work and International Higher Education: Reflections from/with ISS students - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Book Review: 'Belittled Citizens': The cultural politics of childhood on Bangkok's margins: (edited by Giuseppe Bolotta, Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2021) - Children's Geographies, 20 (1), 126-128 - doi: 10.1080/14733285.2021.2011076
- Katarzyna Grabska & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Dance as Liberating and as Limiting, as Connecting, Creating and Crossing Boundaries: Interview with Prumsodun Ok - Music and Arts in Action, 8 (1)
- Pritee Hamal & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Making markets gendered: Kathmandu’s ride-sharing platforms through a gender lens - Gender, Place and Culture, 29 (5), 670-692 - doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2021.1931046 - [link]
- Roy Huijsmans (2022) - ”Pieces that Form a More Complete Whole”: Potencies of meaning in Lao contemporary dance - Music and Arts in Action, 8 (1)
- Roy Huijsmans & Katarzyna Grabska (2022) - Transgressing and Reworking Social Boundaries through Dance and Music: Introduction - Music and Arts in Action, 8 (1)
- RBC (Roy) Huijsmans (2021) - Age-based Marketing Practices and Young People as Economic Actors in the Mobile Telephony Market in Provincial Vietnam - Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia, 25 (1), 23-31 - doi: 10.7454/hubs.asia.1180820
- Roy Huijsmans, N Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations - European Journal of Development Research, 33 (1) - doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00337-1 - [link]
- Nicola Ansell, Peggy Froerer & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Sociological Review Online (Journal)
- Peggy Froerer, Nicola Ansell & Roy Huijsmans (2022) - Ethnography and Education (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans & Katarzyna Grabska (2022) - Music and Arts in Action (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans, N Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - European Journal of Development Research (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans, Nicola Ansell & P Froerer (2021) - European Journal of Development Research (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2014) - Jongeren en Mobiele Telefonie in Laos en Vietnam
- SJTM Evers, S (Shanti) George, R Gigengack & Roy Huijsmans (2014) - European Journal of Development Research (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2013) - Children's Geographies (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2013) - Palgrave handbook of Econometrics (Journal)
- Roy Huijsmans (2011) - Workshop On Householding In Transition: Emerging Dynamics In ‘Developing’ East And Southeast Asia
2101 The Making of Development
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-2101-22-23
3303 Ethnographic Research
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-3303-22-23
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-22-23
Major SPD
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-SPD-22-23
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-22-23
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-22-23
General Information
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-22-23
4152 Development Policies and Practice
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4152-22-23
4154 Critical Social Policy
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4154-22-23
Global Poverty, Local Solutions
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-MI-8102
4311 Children, Youth and Development
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4311-22-23