Rana Kuseyri is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies. Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the Dutch data welfare state, Rana's project will do a feminist ethnography of marginalized welfare recipients seeking welfare-related support in the city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It will explore what welfare recipients understand Dutch welfare rules 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.