Julia Doornbos, MSc

Cultural Geography

I am a a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at University College Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My esearch interests tend to revolve around everyday places and experiences of in- and exclusion; senses of belonging; memory work; diaspora and (forced) migration. Aside from these themes, I am interested in ethics, reflexivity, positionality and participatory/decolonizing approaches within qualitative research. 

I received my PhD in 2023, which focused on the postcolonial everyday geographies of Indo-European families across the Netherlands. Aside from academic output, I worked together with the families from the research to write a book, as a collection of their histories and experiences. This project has received an Open Research Award 2022 from the University of Groningen. As a postdoctoral researcher, I am part of an NWO project (SGW Open Competition M Social Sciences), which explores and analyses everyday experiences of being and becoming disabled, using a community- and arts-based participatory research approach (with dr. Bettina van Hoven and Julia Munuera Garcia).