Convenors:
Prof. Peter L. Patrick
Language & Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
Essex, UK
+44 (0) 1206 872088

Prof. Monika Schmid Language & Linguistics University of Essex & University of Groningen
+44 (0) 1206 872089  

Dr. Karin Zwaan
Centre for Migration Law Radboud University Nijmegen P.O. Box 9049
6500KK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
+31 24 361.2934

E-mail: larg@essex.ac.uk

Introduction

ESRC LADO Network

The ESRC LADO Network is a network of researchers established through the UK Economic and Social Research Council grant no. RES-451-26-0911 to Prof. Peter L. Patrick of the University of Essex Dept. of Language & Linguistics and Human Rights Centre, in order to conduct a series of Research Seminars. The theme is "Language Analysis of Asylum Applicants: Foundations, Guidelines & Best Practice", and the meetings are to be held in 2011-12 at the University of Essex.

 

Participant Biography

Michel Smithuis

... Michel Smithuis, LLM, MD, was head of the department of pathology and toxicology at the Netherlands Forensic Institute from 2002 to 2007. In this capacity he was responsible for acquiring accreditation for the pathology department.

From 2007 he was project leader of the project Expert Register for the Judiciary, and as of 2010 managing director of the Netherlands Register of Court Experts (NRGD).

Email:  m.m.a.smithuis           Please add:  @nrgd.nl