Research projects
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WISESHIFT
The project WISESHIFT aspires to advance the EU’s social economy strategy by highlighting the tangible contributions of WISEs to systemic change and sustainable development.
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Citizenshipeducation and democracy
This multidisciplinary doctoral research describes the legal citizenship mandate from legal, educational and empirical perspectives and examines the underlying assumptions regarding citizenship and democracy.
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The nature of EU rules
This project analyses the contents of all EU law adopted from 1952 to 2023. It distills sentence by sentence how many obligations they include, and for whom. The project maps out developments in the EU's regulatory activity over time.
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RADAR (Renewing Administration through Democratic Anchorage Reforms)
The project focuses on the question of how European civil servants can counter the decline of democratic standards by shaping policy in a different way.
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Psychological safety of frontline workers: towards better service delivery
This project combines different theoretical perspectives and methods (ethnography, questionnaire research and vignette experiment) to study the psychological safety of frontline workers in order to improve public service delivery.
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Co-production in Public Services
Co-production is a specific kind of citizen participation, in which citizens take a more active and direct role in the design and delivery of public services than in other types of participation. This research focuses on this topic.
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INTERLINK: Innovating goverNment and ciTizen co-dEliveRy for the digitaL sINgle marKet
The goal of INTERLINK has been to overcome the barriers preventing PAs to share services in the EU digital single market efficiently.
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WORKLIFE consortium
This project brings together various scientists and social players to investigate the causes and consequences of an imbalance between work or study commitments and responsibilities at home.
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Role models and policies
Policies around parenthood are increasingly designed to ensure that fathers who want to do so share care equally with their partners. This project explores why it is that policies seem to work well for some groups of fathers and less so for others.
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Independent investigation into fireworks disaster
The research focuses on how the government can learn better from disasters such as the fireworks disasters in Culemborg and Enschede.
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Fathers combining work & care
Increasingly, fathers and mothers aim for equality in working hours and involvement in childcare. However, most couples never achieve their work-care ambition: fathers work more hours and spend less time on childcare.
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Reflexive Regulation using Narrative Methods
The aim of the RUN-study is to develop reflexive regulatory arrangements, using narrative methods, putting service users center stage and enhancing accountability and dialogue.
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Prevention and Health
The Prevention and Health project of Radboud University and Radboudumc aims to find out how health differences between citizens can be reduced.