Research
Riki Van Boeschoten took part as researcher and supervisor in the following major research projects.
2011-2015
DeMuCiV Designing the Museum of the City of Volos: Historical Research and Development of innovative interactive content for the dissemination of knowledge. The research project, funded by the Greek Ministry of Education Lifelong Learning and Religion, the European Union and the NRSF DeMuCiV, deals with the historical and anthropological study of the urban phenomenon in Volos, the creation of data bases with the later and modern history of the city and its inhabitants, and the production of interactive applications aiming at widely propagating the research findings through the creation of a museum of the city of Volos. In this project Riki Van Boeschoten is responsible for the research team of the Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology, collecting historical data and life stories reflecting the human experience of the town's citizens from the mid 19th century until the present.
http://lecad.arch.uth.gr/en/research
2010-2011
Greek for Immigrant Parents (ELMEGO).The project was funded by the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly and supervised by Ass. Professor George Androulakis, Director of the Greek Language Laboratory of the same University. The main aim of the research project was the delivery of specialized courses of Greek language, in order to help immigrant parents to improve their communication with the schools attended by their children, and thus to facilitate their integration in Greek society. Riki Van Boeschoten supervised the ethnographic research carried out by the Laboratory of Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly, aimed at the analysis of language and communication needs of immigrant parents. In 2012 the project received the European Language Label Award.
http://www.esske.net/Greeklanglab/images/stories/synopsis.pdf
2004-2007
Gendered Aspects of Migration in Southeast Europe: Integration, Labor, Transcultural Communication. The research project was funded by the Pythagoras Program of the European Union "4.2.1e: Support of University Research Groups on gender issues." and supervised by Riki Van Boeschoten. Its main aim was to examine migration as a gendered experience through the life stories of male and female migrants from Albania and Bulgaria to Greece.
http://extras.ha.uth.gr/pythagoras1/en/index.asp