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Governments and citizens alike are increasingly turning to private security firms to protect the urban space and population; the Netherlands is no exception. What impact does this growing role of private ...

Many adolescents and young adults share negative emotions via social media on a daily basis: worries about exams, doubts over decisions needing to be made, anxiety towards certain situations. Friends in their social ...

There is a tension between two goals that are key to the European ideal, namely mobility and the possibility for its citizens to move freely across internal boundaries, and diversity as the recognition of European ...

In a new six-month investigative series 'What is Populism', the international newspaper The Guardian explores with researchers who the new populists are, what factors brought them to power, and what they are doing ...

UvA scientists will be developing a virtual supermarket especially for people with Type 2 diabetes. This application will help users train themselves so they are better able to resist temptations and therefore make ...

Aslan Zorlu (University of Amsterdam) and Paul Frijters (London School of Economics) conducted research into the happiness of European Muslims in the years since the attacks on 11 September 2001. They found a ...

The compact city concept and green spaces are both instruments for achieving a sustainable city. Yet they are also policy areas with mutual interdependency and contradictory effects, as research by UvA urban planners ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens the door to automated decision-making (ADM). This development has given rise to both hopes and concerns regarding the impact that ADM might have on our society, and hence to a call ...

How do people make choices in the supermarket? And how can you help them to select healthier products? To investigate this process, UMC Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) developed the virtual supermarket: ...

Authoritarian practices that seriously threaten the freedom of citizens have become an everyday topic. Take Russia, where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested last week. Or consider the violence against ...

Almost 8 million people in the Netherlands suffer from a chronic condition. Many have physical symptoms that cannot be addressed with common medical treatment, which has prompted them to find their own cures. With ...

Why and how often do adolescents talk about alcohol on Facebook and Instagram? UvA researchers published the results of research on this question in the Journal of Medical Internet Research and Cyberpsychology. They ...

Migration and refugee issues are on political and public agendas around the globe. The European Union is looking for sustainable solutions, international cooperation and joint responsibility. An international ...

Cultural and creative industries can have a strong effect on local communities and provide both aesthetic and economic value. An international consortium led by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will explore the role ...

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 ...

Teenagers are known for their reckless and impulsive behaviours, such as taking drugs, skipping classes and not wearing crash helmets. Peer pressure is the reason most often given for this type of behaviour, but just ...

Ethnic discrimination on the labour market is a major concern for societies seeking equality. Unequal treatment of citizens leads to inequality, deficient participation and loss of capacity. Sociologist Bram Lancee ...

Several subject areas at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have a high ranking in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. Communication & Media Studies is ranked the best in the world (up from 2nd spot ...

Dissemination of knowledge is essential for the progress of scientific research. It is in the interest of the academic community that research results are made freely available to everyone. It is possible to publish ...

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 ...

As part of our Introduction Week, on 28 and 29 August new UvA students will be getting acquainted with the Roeterseiland Campus. This should not cause any major disruptions for UvA staff and other students.

Nathalie Ramona de Vent, PhD at Psychology (Brain & Cognition, FMG), has reached the finals of the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award with Advanced Neuropsychological Diagnostics Infrastructure (ANDI).

This year you can once again expect a great Summer Festival at the Roeterseiland Campus on Thursday 29 June, starting at 16:30. It promises to be a creative and varied programme with local bands and heroes, DJs, ...

Interview in with Janna Cousijn in the Dutch newspaper het Parool

Prof. dr. Jeroen Raaijmakers, emeritus professor Cognitive Psychology at the UvA, has been elected Foreign Honorary Member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins a select group of thinkers ...

From the end of April, work will commence on breaking open a section of the walls between REC A and REC BC. This work will continue through to the project's completion on 30 June 2017.

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 ...

On Friday 23 December, buildings on the Roeterseiland Campus will have different opening hours than usual.

Milica Nikolic, a PhD candidate of developmental psychopathology at the Department of Child Development and Education received a travel grant of € 2.500 from the journal Kind en Adolescent on September 9 in Utrecht.

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 ...

For his PhD thesis, Joeri Scholtens, a PhD researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), studied the enduring fishing dispute between Sri Lanka and India. At Scholtens’ request, illustrator Laura Eggens ...

Dr Leon Deben passed away on 4 August last. From 1970 until his retirement in 2007, he worked as an urban sociologist in our department, most recently in the position of associate professor. With his long period of ...

During the summer period, buildings on the Roeterseiland Campus will have different opening hours than normal.

The Academia Europaea (formed in 1988) is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and letters, with a membership of over 3500 eminent scholars, drawn from all countries of Europe, and all disciplines, ...

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 ...

Knowing what your target group thinks

Below you can view a selection of photo's taken during the first Crossing Borders Festival organised by the Department of Psychology from the UvA.

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 ...

On June 23 starting at 16:30 you can expect a great Summer Festival at Roeterseiland. It promises to be a creative and varied programme with local bands and heroes, DJs, comedy, theater, food, drinks, sports and ...

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 ...

UvA Psychology is ranked #10 in the QS World University Rankings

The newly installed Diversity Committee, researching ‘diversity’ at the University of Amsterdam, is looking for assistants who will support their research project for the period April-August.

The European Commission has awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship to Martine van Schouwenburg from the Psychology Research Institute from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The fellowship forms part of the Commission’s ...

Prof. Christian Keysers (Brain & Cognition and Netherlands Brain Institute - Social Brain Lab)

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 ...

Interview with Merel Kindt in the New York Times

It is with sadness we wish to inform you of the death of our colleague, Mario Rutten, Professor of Comparative Sociology and Anthropology of Asia at the Department of Anthropology and the Amsterdam Institute for ...

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Migrants in France are regarded much more as an integral part of the country than is the case in the Netherlands. Or rather, that is a common assumption. Jan Willem Duyvendak, distinguished research professor at the ...

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 ...

In his new book, Anthropological Encounters, UvA Professor of Comparative Anthropology and Sociology of Asia Mario Rutten describes how his training as an anthropologist has shaped his relationships with people and ...

Development campaigns in the area of emancipation and health in Africa, which up to around five years ago focused almost exclusively on women, now have a new target group: men. Anthropologist Eileen Moyer is not so ...

​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 ...

Now that it is a candidate for EU membership, Turkey may also deal differently with migration and border control. Political scientist Beste Isleyen is studying this statement's validity, not so much through the lens ...

A large proportion of the population maintains an unhealthy lifestyle despite the huge volume of health advice provided by online and offline media. Eline Smit suspects that the key to this problem may well be the ...

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 ...

In recent years, income inequality has grown in many Western countries. In the United States, the wage gap is mainly caused by the growth in pay differentials between professions. Sociologist Thijs Bol has received a ...

Aukje Verhoeven, clinical psychologist and postdoc at the University of Amsterdam, has won the 2015 Creative Mind Prize.

University of Amsterdam (UvA) student Tirza Snoijl (29) has been announced as the winner of the Echo Award 2015, a prize for multicultural talent in higher education. Tirza has joined the network of over 300 Echo ...

In the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Communication & Media Studies are ranked 8th globally. Last year these subject areas, which are bundled by QS, were ranked in 10th place. Several ...

Human Geography / Development Studies alumna Lydia Hofman recently won the WoON thesis prize for her Master's thesis on eco-friendly living behaviour.

People in positions of power feel more inspired by themselves than by other people, while people with less power also draw inspiration from others. That is a conclusion reached by a group of Dutch and American ...

The term genocide quickly evokes associations with the Holocaust. However, many other genocides have taken place in recent decades – events hardly known to the general public and not labelled ‘genocide’ as such. The ...

Cycling is such an integral part of daily life in Amsterdam, that we don't give it a second thought. However, from a scientific standpoint, it's a subject that raises numerous planning, cultural and social geography ...

The economic health of a country is based on figures indicating growth, unemployment, inflation and government deficits. These figures are often far from objective, however. Daniel Mügge has received an ERC Starting ...

Companies are strongly interconnected worldwide: they have mutual ownership, and share executive board members. But what is the structure of this complex network, and where does the power lie exactly? Eelke Heemskerk ...

B.U. Forstmann et al. published a paper in the new open access journal Scientific Data.

Over the past few decades, the social sciences have evolved into solution-generating sciences. This development is described in the Social Sciences Sector Plan, presented to Minister of Education, Culture and Science ...

Once again this year, social and behavioural sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) achieved top positions in the QS Ranking by Subject.

The University of Amsterdam has started a Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding (ReCEP) with the University of Sussex and the University of Ulster.

Yield has secured one of the coveted Graduate Programme grants awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

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 official opening hours for building B/C/D at Amsterdam Roeterseiland campus went into effect on Monday 18 August. The building is open from Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 22:00.

This year Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam has climbed in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) field ranking, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, from 50 to 39 globally.

From Monday, 18 August, police will be clamping down on traffic offenders around Amsterdam's Roeterseiland Campus. Bicycle coaches also ensure that bikes are parked only in designated racks and sheds.

One of the three elevators in building section B of Building B / C / D on Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus will be out of order on August 21 from 9: 00-12: 00 hours.

The nursing room in B0.02, building B/C/D, will be available from Wednesday, 14 August. The room can be reserved through the Secretariat for the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG).

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 ...

Want to change your room number or add to your personal information on UvAweb? You can easily do this yourself.

The Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus has been equipped with a climate control system that ensures good air quality and a consistent indoor temperature.

The building letter designations for a number of buildings at the Amsterdam Roeterseiland Campus have changed. These changes are intended to make routing easier and more logical.

Ostensibly, a simple glance at key figures on inflation and unemployment would seem an easy way to see how a country is faring. But what do such figures really tell us, and how are they derived? Politicologist Daniel ...

The new social psychology journal ‘Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology (CRSP)', which launched on Friday, 11 July, has a publication policy unique in social psychology: articles will only be considered for ...

Carsten de Dreu, social psychologist and professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded two prizes this month: the Kurt Lewin Medal for his oeuvre to date, and ...

Is this your last working day in your old building? Do not forget to hand in your keys to the concièrge. If you have a deposit to claim back, you can do so through the Self-Service Tool.

Need a computer screen? ‘Old’ computer screens are on offer to Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) employees from Monday, 4 August for a small price.

Subject: Why do people voluntarily take risks and seek uncertainty, while they are also deeply motivated to seek structure and be able to predict and control their environments? This project will look at risk taking ...

Dr Heleen A. Slagter is to be presented with the 2014 Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Slagter is receiving this prestigious award for her outstanding work on the brain mechanisms ...

Three young researchers have been nominated for the Creatieve Geest Prize 2014. The prize will be awarded on 19 June by Freek de Jonge, founder of the prize.

Dr. Sanne de Wit has been awarded a VIDI for the project 'The brain on autopilot' We often fail to stick to our resolutions because it takes a lot of effort to unlearn old behaviour and gradually automate new ...

An accommodation solution has been found for the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) on the Roeterseiland Campus. Building G is included as a location for the FMG and will be renovated during the ...

In the Institute of Psychology, at the University of Lübeck, the newly established laboratory of “Social Psychology/Neuroscience of decision” (Prof. Dr. Soyoung Q Park) is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher or ...

With the expansion of flexible working, it's logical that we no longer always know exactly where to find our colleagues. Lync is a chat program that can help staff to locate and communicate with each other.

Hilde Geurts has been awarded the Bette Deelmanprijs 2014 by the Dutch Foundation for Neuropsychology. For more information, check the link below.

Jan Willem Duyvendak, professor of Sociology, has been appointed distinguished research professor at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) at the University of Amsterdam as from 1 September 2014.

This three-week programme will give students an in-depth look into the ways in which thinking and speaking about security have changed over time, and how stakeholders on various levels deal with conflicts and ...

This week, the Roeterseiland Steering Committee, whose members include the Executive Board and the deans of the faculties of Social & Behavioural Sciences (FMG) and Economics & Business (FEB), came another step ...

Wouter van der Brug has been appointed as chair of the Political Science Department for a period of six months. During this period, the department will be recruiting a new, permanent chair.

On 1 June 2014, Prof. Brian Burgoon will be appointed director of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR).

Last month, Linda van IJzendoorn, a former student of Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), won the Jan Wolf thesis award from Slow Food Nederland.

The graduation thesis of Joris Tieleman, alumnus of the Master's programme Human Geography at the Univerisity of Amsterdam (UvA), is not heavy on words, yet he was nevertheless awarded the 2013 Thesis Prize from the ...

The University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Geography, Planning and International Development Studies Department and the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) have teamed up to work together under a four-year collaboration ...

A large international group set up to test the reliability of psychology experiments has successfully reproduced the results of 10 out of 13 past experiments. The consortium also found that two effects could not be ...

The discipline of Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the best in the Netherlands, according to the THE World University Ranking.

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 ...

The Project Office at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (charged with the financial aspects of projects financed by the second and third flow of funds and other contract activities) had 23 metres of ...

UvA visiting professor Ton Dietz this month was awarded the highest distinction in geography: the Lauréat d’Honneur.

The University of Amsterdam has been placed in the top 50 for the discipline of Social Sciences by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). This ranking of the world’s 500 best universities is published ...

According to an inventory conducted by the ‘Roeterseiland: Operation PaperWeight’ project team over the past few months, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) has some 8 kilometres of paper (archives, ...

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 ...

What is the total quantity of paper materials (books, test papers, magazines etc.) to be found in FMG offices? Members of the Operation PaperWeight project team will visit a number of those offices over the next few ...

Why modern Western society is making people mentally ill and the science behind Mindfulness as a cure for 21st century problems ranging from anxiety disorders and depression to ADHD and autism.

In this issue, junior researchers and distinguished scientists comment on the great pressure to publish as a potential cause of fraud, among other things.

Social geographer Manuel Aalbers, anthropologist Alexander Edmonds and psychologist Birte Forstmann have all received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This will enable them to establish ...

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 ...

Professor of Public Policy and Governance Jonathan Zeitlin has been named Distinguished Research Professor by Dean Edward de Haan of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, effective 1 May 2012.

Maarten Hajer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), was recently appointed honorary professor at the University of ...

UvA anthropologist Niko Besnier received an ERC Advanced Grant for his research into the consequences of sports migration.

Communication scientist Andreas Schuck recently received a Veni grant for his research into the mobilising/demobilising role of emotions in political news reporting.

Emigrants from politically unstable countries tend to maintain close ties with their country of birth. What influence do such - often lifelong - relationships have on political processes in those home countries? Dr ...

Former Communication Science student Nadine Bol, now a trainee research assistant (AIO) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) will be presented with the Unilever Research Prize.

Sociologist Dr Caroline Dewilde, who was recently awarded an ERC Starting Grant, is investigating whether changes in homeownership may also explain the growing inequality.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a Graduate Programme grant to the Graduate School of Communication and the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR).

Prominent scientists tell about their research that has been recently published in high impact journals. MindOpen aims to make interesting scientific research accessible to a wide audience.

Western aid workers provide preventive and general HIV and AIDS care all around the world. And, often, they convey their own political and moral ideas to patients and local aid workers. Anthropologist Jarrett Zigon ...

"From theory to practice" - Prominent scientists tell about their research that has been recently published in high impact journals. MindOpen aims to make interesting scientific research accessible to a wide audience.

China, India, Brazil, and other emerging economies are fast on their way to becoming leading players in the global economy. This may lead to the rise of a new multipolar world order. What effect will these ...

Issue number 5 is dedicated to the UvA research priority area: Brain and cognition.

Survey course: Design, evaluation and analysis of questionnaires for survey research

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 ...

The UvA PsyPoli, an outpatient clinic for people with anxiety and mood disorders, has been fully operational since 1 March 2010.

Professor of Special Education in the Family and at School Susan Bögels believes that fathers play a crucial role in the development of fear in children. She received a Vici grant of € 1.5 million for her research ...

University of Amsterdam (UvA) alumna Marloes van Houten has scooped the Master's thesis prize at the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS) for her MA thesis ‘Nepal's Civil War and its Impact'.

Dr. Eva Marinus (Pedagogics and Didactics) received a Rubicon grant of €56,000 for her research into dyslexia.

Jochen Peter received a Vidi grant of more than €800,000 for his research into the question of why, and under what circumstances, sex in the media influences the sexual attitudes and behaviour of adolescents.

Psychologist Dr Gerben van Kleef is carrying out research into which emotions are effective in influencing others, and under what circumstances. He received a Vidi grant of €800,000 to carry out his research.

Psychologist Mike Cohen is researching why some people are prone to repeating their mistakes, and why impulsive people tend to repeat their mistakes more often. He received a Vidi grant of €800,000 to carry out his ...

Psychologist Dr Tom Beckers received a Vidi grant of €800,000 for his research into the behavioural science component of anxiety disorders.

Dr Thomas Ehring and Professor Paul Emmelkamp, psychologists at the University of Amsterdam, received a €243,000 subsidy from the Netherlands organisation for health research and development (ZonMw) to study the ...

Knowledge about food is abundant and widespread; however, one aspect is conspicuously absent in Western science: the eating body itself. Professor Annemarie Mol received a €1.8 million ERC Advanced Grant for an ...

Researcher Dr Anja Huizink (Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences) wants to develop a reliable measuring instrument that takes various factors into consideration, for example cultural context and gender ...

Education, information about health, advertising and news: everything for children has to be fun and flashy. How does this affect them?

Human Geographer Dr Maarten Bavinck has been appointed president of the Commission on Legal Pluralism. This international committee of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is ...

Dr Rens Vliegenthart who will be conducting research to assess whether the media's influence is really as pervasive as many believe, as well as determining the factors that play a key role in shaping this influence.

Edward de Haan, dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG), has designated two interdisciplinary research focal areas. These research projects, Institutions and Inequality and The Entertainization ...

What is it about models that makes us regard them as 'beautiful'? How is beauty distinguished, shaped and disseminated? Do people in different countries hold different views on beauty? Dr Giselinde Kuipers aims to ...

Just what is the Dutch nationality, and how can we get to know the Dutch? Science and technology researcher Dr Amade M'charek (Department of Sociology and Anthropology) will be applying a unique approach in an ...

Psychologist Anne Marie Meijer from the department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences has been awarded a €384,175 subsidy from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) for ...

Last month Dr Bonne Zijlstra, methodologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Pedagogical and Educational Studies, was presented with the Psychometric Society’s dissertation award. Zijlstra received the award ...

UvA psychologist Dr Saskia van der Oord, Dr Hilde Geurts, Prof. Pier Prins and Ms Marije Kuin of ZonMW (the Netherlands organisation for health research and development) have been awarded a € 450,000 grant to study ...

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 ...

Klaus Schönbach, Professor of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been named Honorary Professor at Zeppelin University, located in the south German city of Friedrichshafen. The distinction ...

Last month UvA neuropsychologist Pauline Spaan (Psychonomics Programme Group) received the Cermak Award in recognition of her research on memory problems among very old people. The prize was awarded by the ...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded UvA alumnus Reza Kartosen a Mozaïek grant. Kartosen received the € 200,000 grant, intended for talented young alumni from ethnic minorities, in ...

Psychologists Mariëtte Huizinga and Diana Smidts of the University of Amsterdam have introduced a behavioural questionnaire to help determine how children respond to everyday situations. This originally American ...

Society is changing at a rapid pace, and our schools and education systems must adapt accordingly. Which steps are they taking to adjust, and what is the role of policymakers, parents, businesses, teachers and ...

Out of sight, out of mind? The opposite is likely true for migrants. Many actually seem to have a considerable influence on their native city, both economically and socially. The University of Amsterdam and The ...

A belief in moral and social progress protects people from existential anxiety. As University of Amsterdam researcher Bastiaan Rutjens has observed, a belief in progress operates in the same way as a religious belief ...

Does selection for secondary education affect non-cognitive factors such as active citizenship and deviant behaviour? This is the key question in a review of education literature to be conducted by sociologist Herman ...

A team of researchers gathered under Geoffrey Underhill, Professor of International Governance in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG), is making an important contribution to the financial crisis debate.

According to a national study conducted by the Netherlands Consortium for Childcare Research (Nederlands Consortium Kinderopvang Onderzoek, NCKO), the educational quality of the care provided by Dutch childcare ...

Metropolitan Studies student Caroline Uittenbroek was one of the members of an international student team recently recognised with an American real estate award. Four international student teams participated in the ...

To what extent do films contribute to the happiness of the viewer? The Communication Science Department is tackling this question in a special study.

Can a computer programme help to improve young children’s reading ability? This is the question addressed to in a new study conducted by researchers in the Department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences at the ...

The fertile marshlands of Africa, the wetlands, are under considerable strain. Together with UNESCO-IHE Delft, the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Studies (University of Amsterdam) is commencing research into ...

The IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion) research network will continue to operate as an independent collaborative effort, now that the European Commission’s five-year subsidy has ...

Many Dutch municipalities have partnerships with municipalities in immigrants' countries of origin. Researcher Edith van Ewijk concludes that if the partners were to increase efforts in these partnerships, they would ...

Senior university lecturer Jochen Peter has won the International Communication Association’s Young Scholar Award. Peter received the award both for the quality and quantity of his publications and the promise they show.

In collaboration with the Maatwerk Primair lectorate of the Almere teacher-training college for primary education, the SCO-Kohnstamm Institute of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is to embark on a two-year study of ...

Carsten de Dreu, professor of Work and Organisational Psychology was appointed fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. De Dreu is one of the few Europeans to have received the honour.

UvA Political Science student Alma Ibrahimovic was part of the delegation voted best ‘Best International Delegation' in late February at a UN stimulation programme organised by Harvard University.

Communication Science PhD student Rosa van Santen was presented with the Etmaal 2009 Young Scholar Award at the end of February for her paper on popularisation and personalisation in politics and television ...

Dutch insurance company Achmea has awarded a € 280,000 subsidy for a PhD study on risk perception. The study will focus on the psychology behind how we deal with ascertained risks.

How do people deal with mixed feelings about choices and decisions? This is the theme behind the PhD research project entitled ‘Ambivalence and choice conflict: Regulatory processes in attitudes and decision-making'.

The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) has presented the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences with a subsidy towards the appointment of 12 Academy Assistants (Akademie-assistenten). The ...

Prof. Joan Hemels witnessed the birth of communication science and became one of the first professors to teach in the field. On 20 March he will be leaving the University of Amsterdam. To mark the occasion, he will ...

University Lecturer Dr Rens Vliegenthart has been presented with the NESCoR Annual Dissertation Award in recognition of his PhD research in the field of Communication Science. Specifically, his thesis deals with the ...

Professor Peter Neijens, Director of the Graduate School of Communication, has been named ‘best reviewer of 2008’ in the International Journal of Advertising. The journal praises Neijens for his ‘excellent work’ as a ...

University of Amsterdam education scientist Dr Jan Ax was awarded the Dutch Association for Teacher Educators’ (VELON) Gerard M. Willems Prize in February. Ax received the award in recognition of his article ...

In a recent study led by Vici award recipient Merel Kindt (Full Professor of Experimental Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam), a team of researchers succeeded in reducing fear responses among human test ...

Prof. Jan Rath, Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnical Studies (IMES), has been named European Chair of the international research network Metropolis, effective early March.

About 10 years ago, the term citizenship was mainly associated with the attainment of social, economic and legal rights. Now, however, the emphasis has moved towards values, standards, customs and traditions. ...

Dutch childcare centres have long been operating without a national pedagogical framework or scientific foundation of any kind. The new book Pedagogisch kader kindercentra 0-4 (‘Pedagogical framework for childcare ...

Twenty-five percent of teachers in the lower grades of secondary education teach on an unauthorised basis at least part of the time. Both qualified and unqualified teachers are unhappy with this situation, according ...

Society understandably is concerned about radicalism and potential attacks, but we must not overestimate the risks, says the new professor by special appointment in Radicalisation Studies Frank Bovenkerk. ‘My job is ...

New rules surrounding patent law have fuelled exorbitant price hikes for medicines, with potentially disastrous results in particular for AIDS patients in third world countries. Researcher Ellen 't Hoen argues for ...

Primary schools are perfectly capable of pursuing their own policies, according to a study conducted by the SCO-Kohnstamm Instituut (University of Amsterdam). In doing so, however, schools often encounter obstacles ...

How does the HIV epidemic influence societies in Kenya, Zambia and Tanzania? What new forms of care have evolved? These are the questions at the core of a new integrated research programme at the Amsterdam School for ...

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 ...

Both automatic and rational processes have roles to play in addiction. But how does that work? Can we influence these processes to help people shake their addiction? Professor of Developmental Psychology Reinout ...

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 ...