Rana Kuseyri (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies. Her project is titled, “Data Subjects: Algorithmic Imaginaries and Legal Consciousness of Welfare Recipients in the Dutch Datafied Welfare State.” Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the digital and datafied welfare state, this project will do an ethnography of welfare recipients seeking welfare-related support and legal advice in the Netherlands. It will explore what welfare recipients understand Dutch welfare law to be, how it is mediated by digital systems, portals and algorithms, and how this relates to their position, identity, and choices within the welfare system.

Rana graduated with an LLM in Legal Research from Utrecht University in 2023. They also hold a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences and an LLB in Dutch Law from Leiden University.