Ilse Ras
Assistant professor
- Name
- I.A. Ras Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 5198
- i.a.ras@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6389-6404
Ilse Ras joined the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology as an Assistant Professor in August 2019.
More information about Ilse Ras
Education
After a BA inLiberal Arts and Sciences at UCR (UU, Middelburg), majoring in Social Sciences and minoring in Rhetoric, and an MSc in Criminology at the University of Leicester (UK), Ilse completed her PhD research at the University of Leeds (UK). She examined British newspaper reporting on corporate fraud, using techniques from corpus linguistics in addition to critical discourse analysis.
Career
Prior to returning to the Netherlands, Ilse taught Criminology and (Critical) Stylistics at several British universities, including Oxford Brookes and Kingston University London. She also worked as a researcher at the University of Leeds (UK), studying newspaper reporting on human trafficking and corporate statements written following s54 of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015.
Research
Ilse's work is part of the Criminal Justice programme of the Department of Criminology, specifically the themes:'Vulnerable groups and inequality' and 'Tackling subversive financial and economic crime'. She addresses the questions 'how does (Dutch) society understand the human trafficking phenomenon, how does it communicate about it, and how does this affect policy (and vice versa)?'. She uses various qualitative research methods, primarily content and discourse analysis, enhanced through, where needed, methods from corpus linguistics. Her research interests lie primarily with labour exploitation.
Teaching
Ilse teaches in the BSc Criminology, focusing on methods (Practicum Verklarende Criminologie, Onderzoeksvaardigheden). As Bachelor Coordinator she is also involved in the (re)development of the qualitative methods modules in the new Criminology curriculum.
Ilse also teaches Evaluation of Criminal Policy in the MSc Veiligheidsbeleid.
Additional Activities
Exam Board 2
NVC board member
Contact
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Strafrecht & Criminologie
- Criminologie
- Ras I.A. & Koning A. (2025), The disappearance of ‘poverty’ in Dutch House of Representatives debates on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), Discourse and Society : .
- Koning A., Ras I.A. & Leun J.P. van der (2024), Origin stories: framing 25 years of Dutch political discourse on child sexual exploitation by tourists and travelers, European Journal of Criminology 21(3): 370-391.
- Donninger D.C., Vries I. de, Ras I.A. & Meeteren M. van (2024), De beeldvorming van mensenhandel in het Nederlandse politieke debat, Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 66(1): 46-70.
- Appel A., Doorn J. van & Ras I.A. (2024), Kenmerken van ideaal slachtofferschap bij mensenhandel: Een media-analyse, Mens en Maatschappij 99(4): 323-344.
- Ras I.A. (2023), Condemning the condemners: The Portrayal of Regulators in UK News about Corporate Crime. In: Douthwaite J. & Tabbert U. (Eds.), The Linguistics of Crime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 301-329.
- Gregoriou C., Ras I.A. & Muždeka N. (2022), "Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; A critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry Deaths, Trends in Organized Crime 25(3): 318-337.
- Ras I.A. (2021), Reporting Crime and Capitalism:: Techniques of Neutralisation in a Corpus of Corporate Fraud News. In: Ewen N., Grattan A., Leaning M. & Manning P. (Eds.), Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 77-96.
- Gregoriou C. & Ras I.A. (10 February 2021), How Companies Talk About Modern Slavery. Open Democracy. [blog entry].
- Ras I.A. (2020), Inequality, accountability and responsibility in UK Press reporting on corporate fraud (2004–14) and modern slavery (2000–16). In: Gómez-Jiménez E.M. & Toolan M. (Eds.), The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality. London: Bloomsbury. 91-105.
- Ras I.A. (2020), Child victims of human trafficking and modern slavery in British newspapers. In: Ringrow H. & Pihlaja S. (Eds.), Contemporary Media Stylistics. London: Bloomsbury. 191-214.
- Ras I.A. (2020), Reporting by Calvinist Dutch newspapers on the people found dead at Grays. Faith Responses to Modern Slavery 24 January 2020 - 24 January 2020. Sheffield University: Faith Responses to Modern Slavery.
- Ras I.A. & Gregoriou C. (2019), The Quest to End Modern Slavery: metaphors in corporate modern slavery statements, Anti-Trafficking Review 13(Special Issue – Public Perceptions and Responses to Human Trafficking): 100-118.
- Voss H., Davis M., Sumner M., Waite L., Ras I.A., Singhal D. & Jog D. (2019), International supply chains: compliance and engagement with the Modern Slavery Act, Journal of the British Academy 7(s1): 61-76.
- Ras I.A. (2019), Developing the victim and the offender in Peter Robinson’s When the Music’s Over. Poetics and Linguistics Association 10 July 2019 - 14 July 2019. Liverpool: Poetics and Linguistics Association.
- Jones C., Egan C., English E., Ras I.A. & Watkins S. (2018), Shared Futures: Early Career Academics in English Studies. In: Eaglestone R. & Marshall G. (Eds.), English: Shared Futures. Leicester: D.S. Brewer. 64-72.
- Gregoriou C. & Ras I.A. (2018), Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review. In: Gregoriou C. (Ed.), Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-Day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-24.
- Gregoriou C. & Ras I.A. (2018), ‘Call for Purge on the People Traffickers’: An Investigation into British Newspapers’ Representation of Transnational Human Trafficking, 2000–2016. In: Gregoriou C. (Ed.), Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-Day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 25-59.
- Ras I.A. (2018), The Representations of Child Victims of Human Trafficking in British Newspapers. Birmingham: Poetics and Linguistics Association.
- Voss H., Davis M., Sumner M., Waite L., Ras I.A., Singhal D. & Jog D. (2018), Against expectations: Mapping the modern slavery statements of clothing retailers against governmental and NGO guidance. 13th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference 12 September 2018 - 14 September 2018. Leeds: 13th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference.
- Ras I.A. (2018), Exploitation and Wealth Inequality: Representations of Corporate Fraud and Modern Slavery by British Newspapers. Inequality Discourse in the News 15 June 2018 - 15 June 2018. Birmingham: Inequality Discourse in the News.
- Ras I.A. & Gregoriou C. (2018), UK Media about Human Trafficking. Negating Humanity: Modern Slavery in its Historical Context and its Implications for Policy / Slavery and the Media 17 January 2018 - 18 January 2018. London: Negating Humanity: Modern Slavery in its Historical Context and its Implications for Policy / Slavery and the Media.
- Ras I.A. (2017), Interdisciplinarity and ECAs. English: Shared Futures 5 July 2017 - 7 July 2017. Newcastle: English: Shared Futures.
- Ras I.A. (2016), The Construction of Corporate Fraud News. Poetics and Linguistics Association 27 July 2016 - 30 July 2016. Cagliari: Poetics and Linguistics Association.
- Ras I.A. (2016), The Construction of Corporate Fraud News. Crime, Media and Capitalism 22 April 2016 - 22 April 2016. Winchester: Crime, Media and Capitalism.