Research projects
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Leadership Development in Road Transport
Employees in the road transport-sector will be affected greatly by increased robotisation and digitalization. Leadership is critical in developing sustainable employability among truck drivers.
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C-LIMES: Constructing the Limes
In this project, we not only investigate the impact of this border on migration and the import of goods and crops in antiquity, but also focus on how the limes becomes visible as cultural heritage today.
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Project Moral Injury
A substantial number of (former) military and police personnel, who work as both performers and targets of violence in high-risk environments, develop ‘moral injury’. To tackle this, comprehensive knowledge about moral injury is needed.
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Fathers combining work & care
Increasingly, fathers and mothers aim for equality in working hours and involvement in childcare. However, most couples never achieve their work-care ambition: fathers work more hours and spend less time on childcare.
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Securing Tenure, Sustainable Peace?
In conflict-affected settings, land tenure security of smallholders is seen as essential to prevent local land disputes and sustain peace, enable recovery of rural livelihoods, and advance ecologically.
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Vive la Commune! Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire
This interdisciplinary research project seeks to approach ‘democracy’ as the subject of conflict and contestation. In light of this objective, our aim is to show how ‘The Commune’ has been the subject of political conflict and debate.
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21st Century Borders
Debates continue about how to theorize the changing nature of borders in a globalizing world. Concepts such as ‘the vacillating border,’ ‘mobile’ borders or ‘borders in motion’ have been predominant.
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Infrastructuring Libraries in Transformation (ILIT)
ILIT examines how public libraries in Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands as socio-cultural infrastructures address systemic challenges in rapidly transforming societies.
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Moving MarketPlaces (MMP)
The Moving MarketPlaces (MMP) project investigates the role of ambulant traders in the everyday production of inclusive public spaces in Europe.
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The power of inaction and ambivalence in transnational refugee governance
Lebanon and Turkey increasingly pressure the Syrian refugees they host to return to their country of origin. This project investigates how such contested return dynamics are influenced by EU-actors’ positioning.
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Gig Economy
The advent of the ‘gig economy’, enabling the hiring of service workers through online platforms, is considered to be amongst the most significant economic changes of the past decade.
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BENIGN: BluE and greeN Infrastructure desiGned to beat the urbaN heat
BENIGN aims to investigate how blue and green infrastructure can be employed in urban areas to create healthy living conditions.
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G-VERSITY - Achieving Gender Diversity
G-VERSITY aims at fostering new kinds of expertise and jobs needed in Europe to help employers overcome the underrepresentation of women, men, and sexual and gender minority Groups (SGMs).
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Reflexive Regulation using Narrative Methods
The aim of the RUN-study is to develop reflexive regulatory arrangements, using narrative methods, putting service users center stage and enhancing accountability and dialogue.
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Vive la Commune! Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire
This interdisciplinary research project seeks to approach ‘democracy’ as the subject of conflict and contestation and hypothesize that ‘The Commune’ may be regarded as the key signifier of a long-standing democratic repertoire in its own right.
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The controller profession
This project aims to inventory developments for controllers, based on surveys and interviews in cooperation with the Dutch VRC (Vereniging van Registercontrollers).
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Complexity and Uncertainty in Circular Closed Loop Supply Chains - Case studies
This subproject is part of a larger project focusing on 3 case studies in closed loop logistics focusing on stimulating capability development and double-loop learning transition towards a closed-loop timber supply chain.
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GEARING Roles
The GEARING Roles project targets the questioning and transformation of traditional gender roles in research institutions at the micro, meso, and macro levels and assesses the design and implementation of Gender Equality Plans.
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INSpECT: INfrastructure interdependencies in Sustainable and inclusivE CiTies
INSpECT will explore these interdependencies to allow a more integrated approach towards strategic investments in transforming urban neighbourhoods.
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Open Strategizing for Infrastructures in Transition (PRONTO)
PRONTO investigates what practices of open strategizing are enacted by infrastructure agencies and develops governance and modelling approaches in support of the development of cross-sectoral infrastructure strategies.