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This seminar series organized by the Transformative Policing Group within the Contesting Governance Platforms focuses on trends that touch upon contemporary conceptual debates and pressing societal matters in policing.

Prof. dr. Bas van Bavel has been appointed Distinguished ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� Professor at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� as of 1 April. He wants to use this new position to further stimulate cooperation within Social Sciences & Humanities.

Scientists study microbiome in different animal species.

Is stoking fires the new smoking? Fleur Froeling and her fellow scientists are working with members of the public to research the health effects of wood smoke.

Which chickens in a coop display problem behaviour such as feather pecking, and why? Sensors and cameras allow the behaviour of animals to be monitored.

Roel Vermeulen (Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��) and Armand Paardekooper Overman (from architects Mecanoo) talk about the Utrecht-based ‘living lab’.

Transition to a Sustainable Food System. What is needed from consumers? And is there a role for animals in the food of the future?

What to feed ducks – according to science

A report of the workshop “Critical Views on Stereotypes: An Interdisciplinary Conversation”, which took place on February 24.

A knowledge and investment consortium has been awarded an €8 million grant to accelerate the application of innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence

Martha Frederiks has been appointed extraordinary professor from January 1 at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Pretoria, South Africa.

A new study by professors Bas van Bavel and Marten Scheffer (WUR) shows that throughout history, most disasters and pandemics have boosted inequality instead of levelling it. Their article is now published in Nature Communications.

Alessandra Schimmel wrote a blog for Liesbeth van de Grift's Vidi-project about European consumers groups from the seventies onwards.

In an interview with Pointer, Belle Derks explains how couples choose a division of labour when they plan on having children.

The issue of Palestine has hardly been addressed, although silently, a consensus seems to arise on how it should be dealt with.

The Executive Board of Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has appointed Professor Debbie Jaarsma to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine as of August 1st , 2021.

For research project Remembering Activism, Marit van de Warenburg wrote a blog about Black Lives Matter protest music.

Last year, Philippe Roepstorff-Robiano published his book about credits fictions, for which he received praise in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

UGlobe Café waarin is gekeken naar de democratische situatie in relatie tot de coronacrisis in Nederland, Israël en Brazilië.

The new OECD publication ‘How was Life? II’ shows economic development and wellbeing in over 40 countries worldwide, in the last 200 years. Jan Luiten van Zanden, professor in Economic history, is one of the authors.

Thijs Weststeijn reflects on the influence of climate change on the way we think about cultural heritage in De Groene Amsterdammer.

NWO Perspective grant of 4.8 million euros for multidisciplinary consortium to develop much-needed universal standard for the pharmaceutical industry.

Rutger Claassen talks about his life and work as a scholar interested in many fields.

Research by Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� shows that the paws of assistance dogs are cleaner than the shoe soles of their users, and thus, paw hygiene is no reason to ban assistance dogs from hospitals.

Christian Lange and Walter Immerzeel have both received an Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research 2021.