Research projects
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Exporting Empire, 1600-1800: Making the Dutch Early Modern Economy
This project answers the question: why was Dutch industry (nijverheid and trafieken) able to grow despite the overall decline of the Dutch economy after the 1670s? It answers this question by looking at the mostly neglected role of industry
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Early Christian martyr acts in Latin
This project aims at presenting a bilingual edition of two crucial early Christian texts from the late 2nd century in the genre of martyr acts: the Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum and the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis.
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Digital Photographic Grammar: Mapping Documentary Photographs
The cultural legacy of the European Recovery Program has not yet been grasped: a visual matrix that was designed to translate, mediate, and communicate abstract political and economic concepts as easily understandable narratives.
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Understanding aphantasia
Although research into aphantasia is growing, a lot remains unknown about this condition. This project explores language in minds without imagery.
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Putting discourse particles in context
Dutch discourse particles (e.g. eigenlijk) are frequent and important in conversation. This project addresses the as of yet unanswered question how people with acquired communication disorders (ACD) use these important linguistic elements.
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Quantifying Bilingual Experience (Q-BEx)
This project aims to provide an optimised and customisable online tool to develop profiles of bilingual (and trilingual) children.
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How Dutch language develops in 5-7 year old early-bilingual primary school pupils
In this PhD-project school pupil's language development in groups between age 5 to 7 years is analysed, in order to compare the Dutch language proficiency between pupils at partial immersion schools and early foreign language acquisition schools.
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Crime in wartime
During the Second World War, crime rates all over occupied Europe were on the rise. People who normally led ‘respectable’ lives now broke the law in various ways, ranging from black market dealing and prostitution to illegal activities
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Cicero’s complete letters in Dutch
This large project aims at translating and briefly annotating all extant letters by the great Roman politician, orator, and author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43). Some of his letters have been translated into Dutch.
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Christine Mohrmann (1903-1988). Scholar at the intersection of gender, religion and academic culture
The classicist Christine Mohrmann was a (catholic) woman ahead of her time in certain respects, whilst in other respects she was very much a child of her time. While many people in the 1920s and 1930s still had to get used to the idea.
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Child separation
This project examines the scope, spread and development of faith‐based child separation in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia (1808‐1984).
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Care for the vulnerable in the 19th and early 20th centuries
The support of the vulnerable in our society is a hot issue; not only today but also in the past. In the past one discovers discussions by governmental institutions and churches about the question who takes care of the people living.
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Anchoring Innovation
The ancient Greeks and Romans were great innovators, not only in the realm of technology but also in other human domains, such as literature, politics and religion. How did those innovations take place?
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A Sacred Triad
This project aims to understand the relationship between religion(s), food and music in the monarchical political systems of Eurasia. From Christendom via the Islamicate world to the Sinosphere, from the 13th till the late 18th century.
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A Living Law
In the eighth and ninth centuries, Western Europe experienced an impressive rekindled enthusiasm for scholarship and learning, fuelled by the Carolingian ambitions of correctio and emendatio of religious texts and practice.
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FLOW
In contribution to the EU mission Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030, FLOW is an international and interdisciplinary project studying young generations relations and engagement with water and oceans, their expectations and emotions.
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Bridging the Gap
Investigating the impact of biomarker technology on daily practices of care givers and patients
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Increasing value of digital self-monitoring for multiple sclerosis
Why, how and when do patients and caregivers (not) use digital self-monitoring technologies?
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HearingHands
HearingHands is a 5-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant awarded to Dr. Hans Rutger Bosker. It aims to uncover how the timing of simple rhythmic hand movements influences speech perception, even changing what words we hear.
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Exploring the dynamic relationships between early cognitive, numerical and literacy development
Exploring the dynamic relationships between early cognitive, numerical and literacy development: A longitudinal study from kindergarten to second grade.