Research projects
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Contingency and meaning among transgender and gender diverse people
This interdisciplinary PhD project seeks to answer: How can the search for meaning experienced by transgender and gender diverse people be characterized, and how does it influence their well-being?
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In Search of Stories
In this research project we have explored the integration of experiences of contingency into the life narratives of advanced cancer patients.
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Meaning in life, identity formation and psychological wellbeing in high schools
This study sheds light on the possibilities for spiritual care in secondary schools, partly based on meaning-based aspects of well-being issues among these young people.
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What's so funny?
This research project explores representations and self-representations of Jewish and Muslim women in British TV comedies and stand-up comedy performances.
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The meaningful moments before euthanasia
In the ritualisation of euthanasia Iline Ceelen investigates the most impactful moments before death.
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Sense of Self in Persons with a Dementia Syndrome
NWO SGW Open Competitie M project about the sense of self in persons with dementia.
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Evangelical Protestants in the year 2020: Community, Identity and Belief
This project aims to gain a better understanding of this particular group of more orthodox, devout believers.
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Rewriting Global Orthodoxy
Parishes and monasteries are also following the social trend of sustainability. The Rewriting Global Orthodoxy research project aims to examine and analyse the Catholic Netherlands’ approach to environmental friendliness and sustainability.
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Tocqueville in the New World
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote an analysis of democracy in America in the nineteenth century. In this project, Tocqueville’s ideology will be linked to Dutch democracy in a variety of ways.