Research projects
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DART: Dutch Automatic Reading Tutor
This project investigates how reading practice software with automatic speech recognition (ASH) and automatic feedback on reading aloud can best be developed and implemented in school practice and at home.
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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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Doctors with character: towards a Master of Medicine that takes virtues seriously
Assistant professor in Healthcare Ethics Jos Kole (Radboudumc) recently received a Comenius Senior Fellowship for the theme Bildung and identity formation.
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BRAINCHAIN
BRAINCHAIN aims to establish personalised treatment strategies for patients with genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. Our campus-based multidisciplinary team takes an integrative approach to go from molecule to brain and person to society.
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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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Working under pressure?
Quality of education depends heavily on the availability and quality of teachers. It is well known that the teacher shortage is partly caused by dropout of beginning teachers and burnout of experienced teachers.
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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.
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Sustainable plastics
We combine environmental life cycle assessment, participative system dynamics modelling, and ex-ante policy evaluation to assess the relevant sociotechnical systems around circular plastics and bioplastics.