Research projects
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Transgressing ‘good’ cities
The project will investigate the implications of colonial legacies in (re)defining people’s experience and engagement of public spaces.
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JUST-PREPARE
The research project investigates the social, technical and societal dimensions of a just and effective energy transition, from carbon-based to renewable energy practices.
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DIGS
Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from surface waters with the aim to unravel their drivers and develop mitigation measures using field measurements, experiments and modelling approaches.
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Environmental impact of inland aquaculture in Brazil
In this research we aim to quantify greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient budgets of aquaculture ponds in Brazil and relate them to management practices.
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Effects of bioturbation on microbial CH4 production, accumulation and emission from inland waters
This research focuses on providing a mechanistic understanding of how bioturbating organisms affect greenhouse gas (GHG) production (through microbial communities), its rates of emission and emission pathways from aquatic ecosystems.
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The Marshall Plan at 75
Throughout the year that marks the 75 year anniversary of the arrival of the first Marshall Plan goods in the Netherlands, several popular-scientific and didactic publications will introduce the history of the Marshall Plan to a broad audience.
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The Diplomacy of Gratitude in Transatlantic Relations
By identifying the presence and significance of gratitude in the long history of transatlantic relations, this project places ordinary civilians, women, children, emotions, and material culture into the history of international relations.
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'The bad breath of consumer society'
This project analyses the arguments, positions and interaction of the various parties involved in the debate on advertising.
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Living with and without antiquity
In this Dutch-language book project 'De oudheidconnectie - leven met en zonder oudheid', Maarten De Pourcq examines exemplary interactions between the ancient Greco-Roman world and the modern world.
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Children of Medea
In this book project, Maarten De Pourcq examines receptions of the ancient story of Medea in modern and contemporary culture in the broadest sense.
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An Anti-Eastern Ideology in Athenian World Heritage?
This project envisions to enrich the study of classical archaeology and ancient history, and more widely, the field of cultural heritage studies by offering new insights into the Acropolis as an important symbol of cultural heritage.
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NanoBubbles: how, when and why does science fail to correct itself?
The project investigates why it is so difficult to correct errors in the scientific literature. Scientists who identify errors often face a lot of resistance. NanoBubbles researches how to facilitate scientific correction.
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Improving Interdisciplinary Knowledge Integration in Public Health Crisis Management
This project examines the role of the sciences in policy advice during the COVID-19 crisis.
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Effects of bioturbators in greenhouse gas emissions from shallow inland waters
The overall aim of the project is to unravel the role of bioturbators on GHG emissions in shallow fresh waters under different scenarios (e.g.: temperature, sediments, bioturbators densities).
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Roman imperial portraits
This project aims to analyse if there are modes to automatically recognize the identity of a Roman imperial portrait and create a digital map which shows the development of Roman imperial portraits throughout approximately 600 years.
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Building a Research Agenda
This project is a collaboration with the Anton de Kom University of Suriname (AdK). Its goal is to promote a research agenda to a new generation of historians that have enrolled in the BA History and the 3-year MA History programme at the AdK.
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Indigenous Journeys
As transnational tourism continues to grow, craft cultures tend to provide a deep-rooted sense of place. This project brings together multiple stakeholders to form a holistic enquiry intersecting creative tourism practices with craft cultures.
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TOS-Fonds (Taalontwikkelingsstoornissen)
A Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a neurocognitive developmental disorder. This fund wants to stimulate research into DLD.
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Nimwèègs from a dynamic point of view
The city dialect of Nijmegen, known as Nimwèègs in the local vernacular, is a dialect spoken in the city of Nijmegen. This project aims at understanding the communicative place of Nimwèègs in the linguistic ecology of Nijmegen.
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Reading the Mind
This project investigates the involvement of social-cognitive processes, such as empathy and theory of mind, during story reading.