Arnout van Rhijn switched after his BA in Archaeology at Leiden University to the MA Heritage Studies at the VU University Amsterdam, focusing for his theses on multicultural heritage in conflict areas. Because of his interest in heritage and its economical aspects, archaeology, tourism and local communities, he also took the MA program Archaeological Heritage Management at Leiden University. For which he participated in the Robben Island Field School. He did research and wrote his thesis on the presentation of different heritage layers at Robben Island, South Africa.
Read here the student experiences on the Robben Island Fieldschool blog....
For the CIE he will be studying investments in heritage and heritage tourism, as well as the best way to include local communities in this process, with a focus on Sri Lanka.
