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Daan Hovens (D.)

Daan Hovens is a researcher at the euregional expertise centre ITEM at Maastricht University. For the Interreg project EMRLingua, he explores existing needs and bottlenecks with regard to the education of the so-called "neighbouring languages" (Dutch, French, German) in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine.

From 2017 to 2020, Daan worked as a PhD candidate for ITEM. His PhD research was a (socio)linguistic ethnography of a multilingual, industrial production workplace in the Dutch-German borderland. As part of this research project, he experimented with posthumanist approaches to human-machine interactions at work.

Expertise

Multilingualism in blue-collar workplaces, multilingualism in border regions, multilingualism and posthumanism

Professional career history

Work experience

2021 - present: Researcher for the Interreg project EMRLingua at Maastricht University

2021 (April - June): Online teacher and developer of the bachelor course "Language and Society 1: Dutch" at Groningen University

2017 - 2020: PhD candidate at Maastricht University (incl. 20% teaching activities)

2015 - 2016: Web editor for Buitenhof (a weekly political interview programme on Dutch public TV), the public broadcasting organisation VPRO, and the public-service radio channel NPO Radio 1

2015 - 2016: Online Japan correspondent for the website of VPRO (see: bit.ly/vpro-japan)

2013 - 2014: Teaching assistant for the BA European Languages and Cultures, Groningen University

2012: Trainee at the Green European Foundation (GEF), the political foundation of the European Greens in Brussels

 

Education

2018 - 2019: University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) for Dutch universities

2013 - 2015: International MA Journalism (Media Studies), Groningen University

2010 - 2012: MA Euroculture (European Studies), with a double degree from Göttingen University and Uppsala University

2006 - 2010: BA Scandinavian Languages and Cultures (including a minor programme in German Language and Culture), Groningen University

D. Hovens

Researcher
Foundations and methods of Law, Faculty of Law
ORCID
d​.​hovens​@​​maastricht​university​.​nl
+31(0)43 3883086

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