Research projects
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Beyond a fear of death
This project examines if humans use tragic entertainment to temporarily escape their fear of death or to accept and rise above it.
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‘Keep calm and carry on’?
Times of crisis are moments of great emotional upheaval. This project investigates three moments of societal crisis in twentieth-century Netherlands to find out how emotions were expressed and valued during these times.
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Teaching materials on sign language and deafness for primary schools
Researchers develop teaching materials about sign language and deafness in this project.
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Quality Arts Education
This research project aims to provide insight into the implementation practice of the national Quality arts education programme.
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Safety among doctors as a basis for more diverse medicine
Sabine Oertelt-Prigione and Linda Modderkolk are researching how a feeling of safety among medical students in regards to sex- and gender-related. They are exploring this through a summer school for these students.
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Does where you were born determine your place in society?
Marloes Hülsken and Harm Kaal did research on whether inequality of opportunity can be countered by having students as well as lecturers get to know a more inclusive history method that offers insight into how opportunity inequality works.
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KLIMAP
The aim of the project is to develop tangible ways in which to transition to climate resilient management of soil and water within agriculture and natural areas in the sandy areas of the Netherlands.
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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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Multidimensional learning for and by (bio)medical students
Dylan Henssen, radiologist/nuclear physician in training, recently received a Comenius Teaching Fellowship. Dylan noticed that (bio)medical students often struggled to envision anatomical structures in 3D and to fathom the underlying relationships.
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REFLECT for self-regulated learning
Jana Vyrastekova, university professor in Economic Theory and Policy, is developing the online tool REFLECT in order to teach students the intricacies of self-regulation.
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Dealing with uncertainty in gender incongruence and DSD/intersex conditions
Uncertainty plays a major role in the care of transgender and intersex children. In this project, linguistic scientists, ethicists and psychologists examine how uncertainty shows itself in both types of care and how those involved can deal with it.
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FielDHeat
Understanding the interactive effects of temperature and humidity on plant reproduction.
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HeatYield
The project will contribute fundamental biological insight as well as materials and strategies for breeding of heat tolerant crop varieties.
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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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Constrained Higher-Order Rewriting and Program Equivalence (CHORPE)
CHORPE will use higher-order term rewriting with logical constraints as a tool to analyse program equivalence.
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Implicit Complexity through Higher Order Rewriting (ICHOR)
The goal of ICHOR is to study computational complexity of and using higher-order term rewriting systems. Our particular focus is to develop methods that involve algebra interpretations.
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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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HeatGenes
Discovering general genetic determinants of plant heat tolereance.