Research projects
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Psychological safety of frontline workers: towards better service delivery
This project combines different theoretical perspectives and methods (ethnography, questionnaire research and vignette experiment) to study the psychological safety of frontline workers in order to improve public service delivery.
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Being in sync together
This research project investigates the importance of emotional synchrony in close relationships and its impact on lifelong social and emotional development.
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SHEWROTE
This project investigates historical sources dating from before ca. 1945 to interrogate how female authors were read in the past.
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Bugging Bugs
This PhD project examines how and why a narrative of disgust and unease emerged, spread, and became the dominant narrative on bugs still prevalent today.
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ATRIUM
ATRIUM facilitates access to a wide range of reusable workflows and interoperable, composable services in the Arts and Humanities domain.
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The Development and Impact of the Law on Sex Designation Change in the Netherlands, 1985-2014
This project outlines the development and impact of Dutch legislation regarding sex designation change that was in effect from 1985 to 2014.
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Understanding and preventing the impact of endocrine disruptors on the hypothalamus-pituitary axes in sensitive populations
The HYPIEND project examines the effects of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) on the stress, reproduction and thyroid endocrine systems besides implementing strategies to minimalize the exposure to EDCs in sensitive populations.
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Personal and professional development with improvisation theatre
In academic education, the focus is often on teaching and training cognitive rather than emotional skills. How can improvisational theatre contribute to developing those personal and professional skills?
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Disapeer: The reconfiguration of peers in editorial review
An investigation into the transformative developments of editorial review at scientific journals, analysing the use of automation and artificial intelligence in the assessment of submitted papers and selection of reviewers.
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Towards a Next Generation of Digital Interventions to Address Adolescent Susceptibility to Online Misinformation
This project will take steps toward safe, effective, next-generation scalable interventions to address adolescents' susceptibility to video-mediated disinformation.
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Co-production in Public Services
Co-production is a specific kind of citizen participation, in which citizens take a more active and direct role in the design and delivery of public services than in other types of participation. This research focuses on this topic.
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INTERLINK: Innovating goverNment and ciTizen co-dEliveRy for the digitaL sINgle marKet
The goal of INTERLINK has been to overcome the barriers preventing PAs to share services in the EU digital single market efficiently.
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From Mediator to Anchorer
This project examines scribal traditions and clerical practices deriving from the Graeco-Roman Levant in the Umayyad and early Abbasid empires.
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SOCIAL
Some adolescents feel more lonely because of their social media use, while others feel more connected to others. In what context does what apply, when, and to whom?
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Subproject: Cultures of martyrdom in Al-Andalus
The focus of this subproject is the so-called Cordoban Calendar, a combination of Arabic-language almanac and Christian liturgical calendar.
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Subproject: Setting martyrs to music
This subproject looks into the music of the Old Hispanic commemoration of martyrs, exploring how it helped shape the identity of the martyr being commemorated.
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COMRAD: optimal magnetic switching for greenest random access devices
The COMRAD projects focuses on developing and fabricating a cold optomagnetic memory device for greener data centres and super-computers. COMRAD aims to demonstrate how to decrease the dissipated heat in data storage at least by a factor of 10.
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Copper-Catechol Synergy for the Development of an Energy-Dense and Long-Lived Redox Flow Battery
The project aims to develop a new generation of copper redox flow battery that have a long lifetime (>20 years) and higher energy density than the state-of-the-art copper redox flow batteries.
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Operando NMR methods for studying electrochemical ammonia synthesis
This project seeks to develop and apply new nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to understand electrocatalytic reaction mechanisms. NMR is a non-invasive, atom-specific, and quantitative spectroscopic method.
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WORKLIFE consortium
This project brings together various scientists and social players to investigate the causes and consequences of an imbalance between work or study commitments and responsibilities at home.