Kathrine van den Bogert works as assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance. She is social anthropologist and gender scholar and has expertise on the themes gender, sport, diversity, youth, multicultural urban neighbourhoods and ethnic and religious diasporas in the Netherlands and Europe. Her first book 'Street Football, Gender and Muslim Youth in the Netherlands: Girls Who Kick Back' is published in September 2022 with Bloomsbury Academic and is based on long-term ethnographic research in the Schilderswijk in The Hague (the Netherlands). Currently she is conducting research on youth work, sport and community building in Utrecht Overvecht (the Netherlands). Kathrine has also conducted ethnographic research on social movements in Birmingham (UK) and Cairo (Egypt). In 2023 she also developed, in collaboration with the University Museum Utrecht a citizen science research in which children and youth study the design of their favorite outdoor play areas: