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With this Academic Communication Pilot Fund, the Minister of Education, Culture and Science wants to 'recognise and appreciate' academics who work on academic communication.

Cognitive neurobiologist expects researchers will be able to refine their search for pharmacological therapies for speech disorders.

Sociologist Amy Nivette collected crime data from 27 different large cities, worldwide, before, during and after the (first) lockdown.

Developmental psychologist Odilia Laceulle investigated young people during the coronavirus crisis. 'A large number of young people said they were in a vulnerable situation.'

A survey among 3,400 Dutch companies with more than 100 employees, conducted by Maastricht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ and Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ, shows this trend.

The projects awarded funding focus on involved fatherhood and mothers on benefits.

Daan Scheepers: 'We want to develop a psychophysiological model of the interplay between physical stress and the formation of opinions.’

'Comparative research shows that on average the quality of childcare in Denmark and Norway is more likely to be lower than in in the Netherlands, rather than higher.'

The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) has awarded Gönül Dilaver en Leoniek Wijngaards a Comenius Leadership Fellow grant.

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.

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

The better young people are able to describe and recognise emotions, the better they are able to deal with them. Anne Margit Reitsema has been working for several months as a postdoctoral fellow in the Thriving & Healthy Youth community. In her research, she immerses herself in the world of physical and mental characteristics of emotions in young people.

NWO awards statistician Bella Struminskaya the €800,000 Vidi grant to realise her research proposal.

Most important result of all three projects is an invaluable exchange between the academic knowledge of researchers and the experiential knowledge and lived experiences of the subjects of their research.

A consortium of organisations aims to find ways to get part-timers to work more hours. The National Growth Fund has already promised 30 million euros

We are excited to host a range of lectures and activities at the crossroads of the fair transitions and land governance debates in this year’s Summer School: Fair Transitions and the Politics of Land: Institutions and Imaginaries for Inclusive Futures. We hope it will draw many of you to Utrecht!

Maaike van der Vleuten aims to find out more about the causes of gender inequality and (in)equality in the work and family lives of LGBT couples.

Certain genes seem to influence the growth or shrinkage of brain regions. So writes Professor of Neuroscience Hilleke Hulshoff Pol in Nature Neuroscience.

Sociologist studied emotional problems, behavioural problems, hyperactivity, antisocial behaviour and problems with peers.

The Executive Board has reappointed Professor Marcel van Aken as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences with effect from 1 September 2022. Marcel van Aken has served as Dean of the faculty since 2017.