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Marjolein van den Brink works as a lecturer and researcher at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and is a member of the Utrecht Centre for European Research on Family Law (UCERF) and the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR). She teaches human rights-related courses and her research is concerned with issues of equality, marginalization, and exclusion. Currently, she focuses on issues broadly related to human rights and gender, including legal gender identity, migration, and intimate family relationships. She emphasizes the interaction between law and practice in her work. Together with Peter Dunne from Bristol University, she authored a report titled 'Trans Intersex Equality Rights Europe' for the European Commission. Additionally, she has contributed to reports for the national government addressing issues related to legal gender markers and personal status law. Van den Brink is involved in various inter- and intradisciplinary research initiatives, including the GIRARE project (Gender Identity Registration Human Rights Effects) and projects on gender, sexuality, and migration. Her previous experience includes a decade as a member of the national equality body, the National Human Rights Institute, where she focused on human rights, gender, personal status law, family law, multiculturalism, and equality for vulnerable groups.
Department of Psychology