Toyah Van der Poten

Phd researcher

Department of Sociology

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Toyah Van der Poten is a PhD researcher at the Department of sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at Ghent university. She has a history in documentary filmmaking and social-artistic work. The project she is working on focuses on the under representation of minorities in blood donation and questions the organizational field of blood donation. The lived experiences of missing minorities are studied through field work in Ghent (BE) and Leicester (UK).

Email: Toyah.Vanderpoten@UGent.be

Research themes:

Discrimination, racism and prejudice || Civil society, social work and solidarity || Identity || Communication, media and discourse