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As of 1 November 2023, Prof. dr. Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij will be the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Wijngaards-de Meij is Professor of Data Use for Innovation in Higher Education. She has served as Vice Dean of the faculty since 2019.

The recent S4S Café explored how seemingly different fields, from geological formations to healthcare, are connected through porous materials, fostering collaboration and sustainability solutions.

Call for contributors to the textbook project of Jan Pieter Beetz (the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ School of Governance) and Selin Dilli ( Department of History and Art History).

Call for interested scholars in setting up a (systematic) literature review in the fields related to bottom-up initiatives.

At De Tolakker, ten hectares of grassland is making way for ecological corridors and ditches with nature-friendly banks.

Would you like to gain insight into the statements of a politician or party? The Dutch Parliamentary Speeches, from 1815 to 2022, have now been added to the text search and exploration tool I-Analyzer.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ academics contend that previous administrations have taken a rather lenient stance on addressing the climate crisis

What happened to the lost continent of Argoland? Geologists at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ have managed to reconstruct the history of this microcontinent.

A summary of seminar 1/4: 'Social Capital and Citizen Collectives'.

On 25 October 2023, Prof. Veronique Schutjens will give an inaugural lecture.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ has been working hard to make the USP a more attractive place for insects. It now turns out that 14 species of wild bees live there, including the grey-banded mining bee.

[interview] Do you work with privacy-sensitive data? With metasyn you can publish sensitive data safeguarding the privacy of persons.

Developmental psychologists Sander Thomaes and Judith van de Wetering explain how you can encourage young people to make sustainable food choices.

While deepening a pont in his garden, Erwin Jesterhoudt stumbled upon a piece of an old wall and discovered, using a digital historical map from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, it was an 18th-century fortress wall.

Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and 17 diverse societal and academic organisations are part of WildlifeNL, a research programme investigating how humans and wildlife can learn to live together more harmoniously.

Are you an experienced supervisor of PhD research? The new course ‘Supervising PhD research: Next level’ lifts your supervision skills to the next level.

As of 15 October 2023, Irene Monasterolo has been appointed as Professor of Climate Finance at the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ School of Economics (U.S.E.).

Wouter Boon has been appointed Professor of Innovation and Transition Studies as of 1 November 2023.

From 1 November 2023, Kei Otsuki will be appointed professor of International Development Studies at the faculty of Geosciences.

Its existence was predicted over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates found deep in the Earth’s mantle.

Marjolijn Haasnoot has been appointed Professor of Climate Adaptation in Deltas and Coastal Regions as of 1 November 2023.

On 11 October, Derek Karssenberg will hold his inaugural lecture.

A Dutch-Indonesian team investigated the potential of mangrove restoration as a cost-effective and sustainable solution for coastal protection in rapidly subsiding areas.

A new series of eight videos explores the experiences of agroecological farmers in Zona da Mata, Brazil.

Experts in water law from the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law wrote an advisory report on meeting the Water Framework Directive by 2027