Travelling Concepts on Air: CRISIS (S2E10)

In this episode of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh discuss the concept of CRISIS together with Dr. Marij Swinkels and Dr. Laura Henderson.

In this podcast series, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Tessa Diphoorn explore the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity by looking at travelling concepts: concepts that travel within and across disciplines. This month, they discuss the concept of CRISIS together with Dr. Marij Swinkels and Mr. dr. Laura Henderson.

Dr. Marij Swinkels works as a scientist at the Utrecht School of Governance (USG) of Utrecht University. She mostly researches the role of leaders and leadership in times of crisis (apart from the occasional side projects) and teaches about leadership, governance, and public policy. During her PhD project, Marij explored how, when, and why the beliefs of European political leaders matter in European crisis management. She defended her dissertation "The role of EU leaders and ideas in managing the Eurozone crisis: navigating uncharted territory" in 2021 and was awarded the UACES best PhD thesis prize in 2022. 

Mr. dr. Laura Henderson is Cluster Chair at University College Utrecht and Assistant Professor of international and European law at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM). Key themes in her research are judicial decision-making, democratic theory, and human rights. Currently, Laura leads the research consortiuum Professional Ethical Judgment for Global Challenges together with Prof. Elaine Mak. This interdisciplinary research project studies how judges, lawyers, and policy-makers can develop the ethical judgment skills necessary to adequately address contested global challenges, such as climate change or global access to medicine.

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