Naomi Ormskerk has been working at Leiden University since April 2025 as a lecturer at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology.

She graduated from Radboud University Nijmegen, where she completed a bachelor’s in Clinical Psychology (2009) and a master’s in Healthcare Psychology (2011).

After several positions as a (junior) researcher - among others in the field of youth crime prevention - Naomi began her academic career in 2017 at the Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology at Leiden University. There, she conducted research (on the impact of parental arrest on children), taught courses in the bachelor programme in Criminology, and supervised bachelor theses. In 2019 she obtained her University Teaching Qualification (BKO). In 2020 she continued her work at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she also taught in the bachelor programmes Criminology and Law in Society. She currently works as a lecturer in Criminology at Leiden University, where she teaches in both the bachelor and the master programme Forensic Criminology and supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses. Meanwhile, she is finalising her PhD dissertation.

Research
In September 2020 she began her PhD project at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, supervised by Prof. Dr. Nicole Immler and Prof. Dr. Maarten Kunst (Leiden University). Her research focuses on recognition for victims of abuse within Catholic institutions in the Netherlands. Specifically, it examines both an individual victim approach (centred on the design of redress mechanisms and victims’ experiences with them) and a system-oriented victim approach (focused on social recognition, institutional accountability, and structural reform).

Publications