Research projects
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Hearing Conflicts (HEARCON)
This research brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars employing creative methodologies to explore museological strategies for contending with colonial histories and “difficult knowledge.”
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Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene
Machin and Wissenburg oversee the composition and editing of some 40 chapters by 50-60 renowned authors in environmental political theory and related disciplines for a handbook that will be published by Edward Elgar in late 2023 or early 2024.
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Biography Ruud Lubbers (1939-2018)
Ruud Lubbers (1939-2018) was the longest-serving prime minister to date and, moreover, was so during a crucial period in the Netherlands. CPG researchers are now writing a critical, scholarly biography based on new insights.
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Parliamentary History Series: Politics during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994)
In 2023, the CPG began a new research project on politics in the long 1980s and during the Lubbers cabinets (1982-1994) that will result in a new volume (volume 11) of the Parliamentary History Series.
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‘I am curious to find out what is going on in simple molecular collisions’
We interviewed Tijs Karman about his scientific background, research focus and goals within the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of Radboud University.
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The uNMR-NL Grid
The uNMR-NL consortium has been a Roadmap 2020 grant for the development of advanced instrumentation and new experimental techniques.
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HiSCORE
In the ERC Synergy project Highly Informative Drug Screening by Overcoming NMR Restrictions (HiSCORE) the research team will develop an information-rich high-throughput drug screening methodology.
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PANACEA
The PANACEA project is a public-private and interdisciplinary collaboration with academic and industrial organisations aiming to provide access to instrumentation and experiments in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to European chemists.
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PASSIM project
PASSIM studies the medieval reception of the Latin sermons preached by the Early Church Fathers, using a digital network of manuscripts.
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'Physical Chemistry of Soft Matter: Cooking, Looking and Tweezing’
We interviewed Roel Dullens about his scientific background, research focus and goals within the Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM) of Radboud University.
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Offences dependent on administrative norms
This PhD research project focuses on the interaction between criminal law and administrative law and seeks possible solutions to fundamental and dogmatic problems.
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Synoptics
The SYNOPTICS programme will adopt a unique synoptic approach by using all properties of light: amplitude, phase, polarisation and multi-wavelength, to achieve breakthroughs in optical resolution and sensitivity.
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MAX-FRESH
The MAX-FRESH project is developing the ISS-Monitor, a sensor to detect spoilage in fresh produce, potentially reducing waste by 50%, extending storage life, and generating €110M post-2023.
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Spain’s Años del Hambre
This subproject investigates the legacies of the Spanish Years of Hunger (1939–1952).
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Teaching Ireland’s Great Famine
This project examines past and present educational materials and practices in primary and secondary education, museums and other heritage institutes.
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Weaponising the Past
This subproject investigates developments in the narrativisation of hunger in textbooks and museum exhibitions between 1914-2020 in Germany.
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Framing Famines
Framing Famines foregrounds how memories of the past are (re)mediated from comparative perspectives, and how this influences a perception or experience of the past.
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Teaching Great Famine Legacies in North America
The research project Teaching Great Famine Legacies in North America is conducted by Prof. Marguérite Corporaal and investigates a rich corpus of Famine-related educational curricula and practices used by a host of institutions in the US and Canada.
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The 1845–1848 Famine in Flanders and the Netherlands
This project, conducted by Prof. Lotte Jensen, investigates this question, as well as how these famine legacies have been transmitted by museums, school curricula, and commemorative practices in the past and present.
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Between Conflict and Solidarity
This project is conducted by Dr Ingrid de Zwarte and analyses discourses of victim/perpetrator and solidarity in three heritage traditions centred on conflict between two nations.