There is increased need for critical scholarship in the social sciences and humanities related to HIV/AIDS. The largest gathering of scientists, researchers and activists focused on social sciences and HIV in the ...
Does our changing media landscape necessitate new codes of conduct for media professionals? This is the central question of Media Ethics and Governance, a massive open online course (MOOC) that the University of ...
The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential ...
Like American banks, European banks have been instructed to track down suspicious financial transactions and to report these as part of the battle against terrorism. How does this process work, what are the dilemmas ...
The UvA’s Bachelor’s programmes in Psychobiology and Biology and Master’s programme in Biological Sciences have been assessed as ‘good’ by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). All ...
The YAE is a pan-European initiative of outstanding young scientists to strengthen networking, scientific exchange and science policy beyond the national level. YAE members are selected based on the highest standards ...
The University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Master’s track in Clinical Development Psychology has become the first Dutch degree programme to be accredited by the International School Psychology Association (ISPA), the ...
Studies looking into the use of violence, as a group or otherwise, often draw a direct connection with the background characteristics of the perpetrators. According to Dr Don Weenink, sociologist at the University of ...
During her inaugural lecture on Friday, 22 January, Julia van Weert, professor of Health Communication at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), will launch the new Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC). The ...
The YAE is a pan-European initiative of outstanding young scientists for networking, scientific exchange and science policy. The YAE is organized as a bottom-up initiative of a dynamic and innovative group of ...
The personalisation of politics has been apparent for a while now in national politics, with political developments, election campaigns, voting behaviour and media attention often tending to revolve around individual ...
An accelerating driver who suddenly brakes because a traffic light changes to red is an example of response inhibition, or the interruption of an on-going action. The question is which cognitive processes play a ...
The Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam have once again risen in the field ranking conducted by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, advancing from 39th to ...
Intelligence is fairly easy to measure by means of a performance or IQ test. One significant variable is not included in the result, however: the response time. Wrongly so, believes psychologist Dylan Molenaar. He ...
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science’s disciplines of Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science, Educational Sciences and Child Development, and ...
The faculty at the Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus is working with Facility Services on a new procedure for dealing with waste and cleaning. This is to ensure that the premises are kept clean and hygienic, as well as ...
Yield is a new research priority area at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, set up to investigate the effects of both biological and environmental factors on human ...
Ten subject areas taught at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) are listed among the QS World University Rankings by Subject worldwide top 50, published on Thursday, 8 May. UvA’s programmes in Communication Science and ...
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is ranked, just as previous years, in the top 150 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). This ranking of the 500 best universities in the world is published annually ...
This year marks the 380th anniversary of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In honour of this 76th ‘lustrum’ (anniversary occurring every five years), the UvA will be celebrating the opening of the academic year on a ...
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the best Dutch university in six subjects according to the QS World University Ranking by Subject 2012. In the rankings for Communication and Media Studies, the UvA occupies 13th ...
Dr Caroline Dewilde, a sociologist at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded a €210,000 grant to conduct an international study on how pension and housing policy decisions impact the income status of the ...
Jonathan Zeitlin and Charles F. Sabel claim in their book book that the EU's regulatory successes rest on the emergence of a recursive process of framework rule making and revision by European and national actors ...
Effective 1 September 2009, Robert Kloosterman, professor of Economic Geography and Planning at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was appointed honorary professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, a faculty of ...
Daniel Mügge, university lecturer at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Political Science, has won the Jean Blondel Award 2009. He received the award in recognition of his thesis "Widen the Market, Narrow ...
How do full bench sections arrive at a ruling? Which circumstances have a beneficial or detrimental effect on their decision-making process? Prof. Carsten de Dreu (professor of Work and Organisational Psychology and ...
The European Commission has awarded a grant of €300,000 to research the use of informal interpreters in medical practice. The University of Amsterdam is one of the participants in this research being conducted in ...
Science dynamo Dr Loet Leydesdorff one of the leading researchers in the field of technology and innovation management. According to the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT), Leydesdorff is ...
Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt) Director and Professor Ton Dietz was named Vice Chairman of the Curatorium of the Prince Claus Chair at the end of 2008. Dietz was ...
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