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

Anna Salomons, Professor of Labor Economics at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��’s School of Economics, is recognized by the EEA for her academic work.

Paulien de Winter is going to research how group dynamics among street-level bureaucrats influence enforcement of social security rules.

Scott Douglas, Associate Professor of Public Management at the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� School of Governance, becomes the new permanent member of the Dutch Safety Board.

Paul ’t Hart, professor of Public administration and member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, receives the award for his work in knowledge utilization.

Ikzoekeenmotie.nl offers a comprehensive platform to explore the true voting behavior of political parties in the Dutch House of Representatives.

Seed funding has been awarded to an EWUU Preventive Health project to learn how professionals and public servants can better assist the socioeconomically vulnerable.

Sacha Prechal, judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor of European Law at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has received an honorary doctorate.

We are thrilled to announce our upcoming conference for the 19th and 20th of June 2025

Immaculate Angutoko, Chief State Attorney at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Uganda, spoke with Julie Fraser about her career in human rights and criminal justice

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

Does the ocean belong to humanity? To states? Or does the ocean belong to itself? The “Whose Ocean?” project received an Incubator Grant to explore this question and understand its significance.

How do plastic items move through the Wadden Sea? To answer that question, the OceanParcels team went on two expeditions to deploy 24 Stokes drifters.

At the invitation of the EU Commission's Government Experts Group on Public Procurement, Prof Willem Janssen shared his views on European public procurement rules.

Researchers looked into whether, in anticipation of EU legislation, a Dutch right to repair and ban on destruction of unsold products is legally feasible.

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.

Joep Lindeman is appointed full professor of criminal procedural law at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ��. His appointment is during an interesting time in Dutch criminal law.

At the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning (CAT), we are continuously developing our teacher development offer.

A new blog by Ilse van Liempt and Carolien Lubberhuizen about our recent film screening of 'Living Labour'.

Chiara Palmeri studies English Language & Culture at UU. She is currently trying to open a cat café in the USP. Read a monthly update on her entrepreneurial journey here.

The Proof of Work protocol (mining) for cryptocurrency seems to play a crucial role in bubble formation, with the risk of financial contagion.

Report of the student symposium on 8 May, focusing on the North Sea Agreement and three major transitions (nature, food, energy) taking place there.

Ivo Giesen, professor of private law at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� since 2004, has been appointed director of the WODC.

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

The world’s seaweed forests transport 56 million tonnes of carbon (between 10 to 170 million tonnes) to deep ocean sinks each year.