Quirine Eijkman

Over the past few years, Quirine Eijkman has performed research into a variety of subjects, including legal aid for clients with multiple problems, human rights & social workers, side effects of security measures and accountability in the context of communication surveillance. She served as a second supervisor to 4 Phd. students: A.Dibbets ’Social Workers as Local Human Rights Actors’ (Utrecht University, 28 October 2025), D.Claessen ‘Human Rights at the Kitchen Table: Access to Justice and the Role of Social Workers at the Local Level’ (Utrecht University, 1 October 2025),  D.Weggemans ‘Computer Says No: On Digital Authority & Security’ (Leiden University, 13 February 2025) / B.Schuurman ‘Becoming a European Homegrown Jihadist: A Multilevel Analysis of Involvement in de Dutch Hofstadgroup 2002-2005’ (Leiden University, 27 January 2017). Currently, she is cosupervising A. van de Weert who is doing a Phd on ‘Realizing (Human) Rights Protection for Compulsory Care by Psychiatrists and Nurses’ (VU Amsterdam).

Before Eijkman worked as the deputy President & Commissioner of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (former Equal Treatment Commission), senior researcher & lecturer of the Institute of Security & Global Affairs (ISGA) Leiden University,  head of Political Affairs and Press Information Office at Amnesty International Netherlands, the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV), the Netherlands Red Cross and Utrecht University. In 2007, she obtained a PhD from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Law for her legal-sociological thesis about public security, police reforms and human rights implementation in Costa Rica. She studied Criminal Law and International Law at VU Amsterdam, where she graduated in 2001.

Quirine Eijkman is a member of the Member Advisory Board Dutch Legal Aid Board (RVR), the  and of the Supervisory Board ZAAM Interdenominational Secondary Education 23 schools in Amsterdam, Zaandam and Monnickendam. In addition, she is a Member of the National Integrity Committee and the independent Integrity Committee of the ministry of Health, Integrity and Sport. She has extensive experience with developing and teaching curricula in the field of Human Rights and Security & Rule of Law for bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.

Fields of expertise

• Access to justice
• Rule of law
• Human rights
• Security