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Lower educated employees make less use of sports facilities and healthy food options at work. This spurs inequality, say sociologists from Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Utrecht researchers are involved in seven out of twenty NWO Open Competitie ENW Groot projects.

Elma Blom wants to find out whether it is difficult for children to learn a language when presented with mixed languages.

NATURVATION, Smart Solar Charging or SustaIndus will win the Pathways to Sustainability Award on 5 March.

Joost Vervoort and Laura Pereira reflect on ten years of successful policy guidance with the CCAFS Scenarios Project, hosted since 2016 at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ.

Recognition for contribution to the social debate.

Participants discussed, at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, the issue of rights of coastal States and other States, preparing for the UN treaty on marine biodiversity.

Researcher Wytske Versteeg argues that we are just as vulnerable as every other animal and plant species.

Scientists of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ participated in a workshop on marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. The UN is working on a treaty on this.

In his PhD thesis Yihong Liu focused on crisis as an opportunity for policy change in China. How does he experience the current crisis?

Coastal protection: even in the near term.sea-level rise due to Antarctic ice sheet melting could become a major risk

For the project ‘Value-Sensitive and Transparent Algoritmization: Key to Building Citizen Trust?’ a research team will work in close contact with the police.

Save the date for the public launch of Migration and Societal Change with Nando Sigona.

Three Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ PhD researchers have launched a podcast exploring science and society and life as early career researchers in today’s university.

What needs to happen to make consumers switch from meat and dairy products to plant-based alternatives?

Caroline Slomp has been elected as one of the twelve new Geochemistry Fellows at the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemostry.

Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Professor of Community Psychology and Social Pedagogy in New York, will receive a honorary doctorate.

This news item is a blog that was written by the study association Storm about their sustainable study trips.

Professor Maarten Goos of Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ is guest editor of a journal, welcoming papers on AI, big data, robotics, the digital transformation and labour.

New research from Education ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Hong Kong and Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ identifies novel and concrete policy ideas that would help reach a circular economy.

start of the Future Food minor with a first introductory and interdisciplinary course on food issues in the academic year 2020

Melting of the ice in Antarctica is an emergency signal provided by nature, says Roderik van de Wal

Greenhouse warming period reconstructed with unparalleled precision

How can we imagine sustainable cities that people want to live in, and how do we actually achieve them?

Nine outstanding academics, amongst whom Jarno Hoekman and Joost Vervoort, have been selected to join the Utrecht Young Academy in 2020.