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As of 15 October 2025, Kees van den Bos has been appointed professor at the new chair ‘Organisational Development and Leadership for Societal Transitions’.

An exploratory study shows how cities like Utrecht, Amsterdam and Rotterdam deals with disinformation. Citizens expect action from the municipalities.

Esther Nieuwenhuizen investigated how transparency actually influences citizens' trust in algorithm use by public organisations, such as the police.

'Diplomademocratie' (Diploma Democracy) by Mark Bovens & Anchrit Wille is the completely revised edition of the Dutch of this ground breaking book from 2011.

What if we see our vulnerability and neediness not as problems, but as conditions for solidarity and coexistence?

Over thirty promising, young Utrecht researchers will receive a Veni grant of up to 320,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 1 in 7 Venis went to Utrecht researchers this year.

A new round of financial support is offered by the Dynamics of Youth community Youth Education & Life Skills (YELS) to promote and support research activities. Submit your proposals by June 13, 2025.

Isabelle Donatz-Fest spent 350 hours with the police to see how algorithms are given a role in daily operations.

Prof. Niels Bosma has been appointed as the new Head of Department of the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Economics (U.S.E.), as of 1 September 2025.

Last Thursday Adapt! was launched. “By linking research with practice, we are developing practical solutions,” says key initiator and Director Beatrice de Graaf.

As per 1 January 2025, Anna Gerbrandy and Rutger Claassen will be appointed the new scientific directors of the university-wide strategic theme Institutions for Open Societies (IOS).

The Open Cities Platform announces the launch of their Monthly Research Seminar, an engaging and collaborative space designed for UU researchers and students to present and feedback research.

On July 17th 2024, the Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity (ReSET) project launches an innovative, experimental website to share research findings on just energy transitions more effectively and engagingly.

Utrecht researchers developed a broader method to measure welfare: the Better Well-being Index (BWI). This year, broad welfare in the Netherlands increased.

This volume brings together eight essays by eminent scholars, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation.

Lorena De Vita is the recipient of the Heineken Young Scientists Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Alfred Heineken Fondsen Foundation.

Since the birth of Islam, there have always been critical dissenters. ERC project Beyond Sharia examines precisely these non-conformists.

A multidisciplinary team of UU researchers investigated the screening, data-extraction and examination of smartphones of asylum seekers at the start of the asylum procedure.

In May and June 2024, Sandra Ponzanesi is Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIB) Visiting Professor at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).

Postcolonial Theory and Crisis, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and others, aims to find out how to best make sense of postcolonial theory in Europe in the present.

Under the name Adapt!, an interuniversity team of researchers will research the cultural, social, and policy capacities needed to deal with crises.

Newly appointed Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures Payal Arora explains why it is inevitable to look at the Global South when looking at AI and digital cultures.

Doing Digital Migration Studie, edited by Koen Leurs and Sandra Ponzanesi, offers a comprehensive entry into a variety of debates, interventions, and discussions.

Oana Ciuraru (a former student of Dutch Literature and Culture) and Tara Tankink (Public Administration and Organisational Science) win a Jan Brouwer Thesis Award.

Prof. dr. Bruce Mutsvairo talks about disinformation and propaganda on the African continent, and also about the role of Russia in the situation.