Kim Lecoyer is master in social and intercultural psychology, master in Arabic and Islamic studies, and she completed a master-after-master in world religions, interreligious dialogue and relgious studies.

Ze is finishing a PhD in Law at the Centre for Human Rights of the University of Ghent, where she researches non-state dispute resolution in muslim families with a migration background.

She is a researcher for the project on Islamic beliefs about raising children and she is one of the organisers of the course 'Peaceful lives: family mediation in muslim families'.

Besides her work for the knowledge center she is chairwoman of KARAMAH EU: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights.