Research projects
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Towards smart soil-sensing: developing a proxy for soil health
Rosa Boone is studying how the restoration of soil diversity contributes to the condition of soil. To do this, she's developing a new measuring method that farmers can use to track the health of the soil beneath their feet.
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Bilingualism in the picture
Bilingualism is a hot topic, one which is increasingly the subject of conversation in many primary schools. To facilitate this conversation, we have created three short animations about bilingualism for primary school children and their teachers.
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Unfair Terms in Banking & Financial Contracts
This research project focusses on Directive 93/13/EEC, a well-known and successful piece of EU consumer legislation on unfair terms in consumer contracts.
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Sustainable Finance in Europe, 2nd ed
This project provides a comprehensive overview of regulatory developments within the EU revolving around sustainable finance.
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OpenWebSearch.EU
OpenWebSearch.EU is a project to develop and pilot the core for a European Open Web Index (OWI) and the foundation of an open and extensible European Open Web Search and Analysis Infrastructure (OWSAI).
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Rembrandt Documents Project
The goal of the Rembrandt Document Project (RemDoc) is to create a new digital infrastructure for accessing, analysing, and interpreting original written and printed documents related to the life and art of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
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Integrating History in Dutch Public Policy
Policy makers value history. They do not, however, systematically apply historical insights and skills in policy practice. This project studies why this is the case.
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The Teacher as Citizen-maker
This research exposes the (changing) views on and of the teacher as a 'former of citizens' in the Netherlands since 1945.
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The Medical Compendium of Henricus Spijker, Doctor and Canon in Fifteenth-Century Nijmegen
This project discloses the manuscript of Henricus Spijker to a wider audience. It further aims to trace the life of his and the role he played in the city of Nijmegen between 1470 and 1493.
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The Emperor's New Praise
This project analyses the different traditions to which Pliny the Younger (61 - ca. 113) anchors his Panegyricus and the way he exploits loci communes to do so.
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The changing burden of disease
This study tests the epidemiological transition theory with data from registers that kept track of everyone who died in Amsterdam during the period from 1854 to 1926.
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The Art of Teaching
This project focuses on this literary character of Greek ‘didactic epic’. These poems are an intersection of contemporary scientific learning, literary aesthetics, and the epic-didactic tradition, against the background of the Roman Empire.
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Room for Protest
'Room for protest' examines on a decentralised level how democracy and public order have clashed in practices of and discussions about protest since 1919.
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Writing European Regions in the Transatlantic World, 1845-1914
To develop a better understanding of the role of regionalism in the formation and marketisation of diasporic identities, this subproject considers two ways in which German and Irish regions featured in the North American literary marketplace.
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European Local Colour Fiction in Transnational Contexts, 1830-1914
The project European Local Colour Fiction in Transnational Contexts, 1830-1914 explores the trajectories of travel and translation of a selection of British, Irish, French, and Italian “regional” or “local-colour” texts.
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Local Colour Fiction, the Irish Revival and Transnationalism, 1882-1914
The literatures and cultures of the Irish region were central to nationalist ideologies, but the question arises in what respects local colour fiction of this era breaks away from this national frame to address transnational concerns and issues.
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Local Colour Fiction in Flanders and the Netherlands, 1851-1914: Transnational Perspectives
This research project approaches nineteenth-century Dutch local colour fiction from a transnational perspective, considering its circulation and reception across borders and its reflection on transnational relationships and interactions.
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Stress in motion
This interdisciplinary pre-registered study investigates how Dutch learners of Spanish produce multimodal lexical stress in Spanish-Dutch cognates (e.g., Spanish profeSOR vs. Dutch proFESsor).
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Relationships between hearing, cognition, spoken language processing, and vocabulary knowledge in hearing-impaired adults and children
In order to shed more light on the relationships between poor auditory input and language performance, this project investigates relationships between crystallised language knowledge, hearing impairment, and individual cognitive abilities.
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Individual differences in clear-Lombard speech modifications in noise
This project documents intertalker differences in the acoustic modifications that speakers apply in noisy conditions.