The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Op 11 februari 2020 verdedigde Clara van Dam haar proefschrift 'Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof.dr. W. den Ouden en prof.dr. J.E. van den Brink (UvA).

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro

Promotor: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Promotor: K.H. Kuijken

How did colonial law work to turn people into property? This project argues that colonial ideas about households and domestic authority were critical to legal processes of enslavement in the early modern Dutch empire. Using colonial court records from Dutch Brazil, Suriname, and the Moluccas, the project…

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon & Prof. dr. H.H. de Iongh

This thesis combines field and laboratory studies to address some of the most pressing questions in the field of microplastic research.

Streptomyces are multicellular, Gram-positive bacteria in the phylum of actinobacteria which produce a high amount of bioactive natural products of which the expression is tightly coordinated with the life cycle.

The researchers examine the Council of the European Union's voting behaviour between 2010 and 2021 and the impact of different independent variables.

Metastasis is responsible for over 90% of cancer-related deaths and arises from the ability of a small subset of tumor cells to detach from the primary tumor, overcome multiple biochemical and mechanical barriers, disseminate through the body, and colonize distant organs.

This dissertation investigates the energy and material related impacts of the transition towards a low-carbon heating system in the Netherlands, in the context of its 2050 climate and circular economy policy goals.

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-promotor: A. Boyarsky

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

Large carnivores and humans, along with their livestock, have co-existed for thousands of years. However, human population growth and an increase in economic activities are modifying the landscape for large carnivores and their prey.

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Are you planning to conduct clinical research in the Netherlands? In this online course, you are introduced to legislation and procedures on clinical research in the Netherlands. It will help you prepare and submit your research file efficiently. The first three themes ‘The Dutch Review System’ , ‘The…

Decarbonizing the building stock is critical for realizing the climate-neutral target for the Netherlands.

The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics fails to explain several observed phenomena and is incomplete. In order to resolve this problem, one may extend the SM by adding new particles.

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

In dit artikel presenteren Andrea Bartolucci en Michele Magni een evidence-based onderzoek naar de spontane opname van slachtoffers en de verdeling van patiënten in de onmiddellijke nasleep van de Manchester Arena Bombing.

Matthias Haentjens, Jouke Tegelaar en Dorine Verheij schreven het hoofdstuk Financial Market Regulation and Supervision, dat recentelijk is gepubliceerd in het belangwekkende handboek The Law of the European Union (voorheen Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat).

Dit artikel introduceert een nieuwe dyadische benadering om stemgedrag in de Raad van de Europese Unie te bestuderen.

Dit proefschrift beoogt inzicht te verschaffen in etnische vooroordelen bij Chinees-Nederlandse kinderen en de etnische socialisatiecontext waaraan zij worden blootgesteld via drie sociaal-contextuele factoren, namelijk ouders, kinderboeken en de COVID-pandemie.

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This dissertation, Layered Loyalties: The Natuurkundige Commissie in the Netherlands Indies (1820-1850), studies the Natuurkundige Commissie.

Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning, experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study, Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the life cycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish…

This dissertation aims to advance understanding of amoeboid single cell migration under the influence of changing physicochemical environmental properties. The particular focus is on the relatively unknown influence of differing physical properties in the extracellular environment, such as the migratory…

Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…

Hoe kwamen vroegmoderne mensen achter nieuwe kennis? En maakte dat hen meer bereid om innovatie te accepteren? In dit project wordt onderzocht hoe en met welk effect nieuwe kennis zich verankerde onder het bredere publiek in de vroegmoderne Lage Landen.

There is an increasing amount of attention on EU and its Member States contributions to implementation of two landmark agreements: the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Absent from the current literature is an analysis of the political effect of…

A brief review essay on some of the work that has been recently published in the emergent field of digital ethnography.

Why do sexual violence policies still fail to systematically address men and masculinities, when the need for cultural change among men has been central in public debates since #MeToo?

Mocht de PVV bij de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen van 15 maart a.s. als grootste partij uit de stembus komen, moet zij dan – zoals de staatkundige conventie dat wil - ook het initiatief krijgen in de kabinetsformatie?

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Judith Pollmann en Henk te Velde kregen uit de Vrije Competitie Geesteswetenschappen van NWO de middelen voor een project getiteld The persistence of civic identities in the Netherlands, 1747-1848.