Research projects

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  • European flags - Photo by Guillaume Périgois via Unsplash

    Onderneming & CSDDD. De gevolgen van de Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence-richtlijn voor het Nederlandse ondernemingsgerichte privaatrecht.

    The study aims to provide a thorough analysis of the obligations under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and its implications for Dutch corporate private law.

  • Man aan een neuro-apparaat

    The ticklish brain

    Tickle is one of the most enigmatic human sensations. This research will shed light on the neuroscience of tickling, and holds clinical implications for disorders characterised by aberrant responses to tickling, such as schizophrenia.

  • Prefigurations of Peace

    This project aims to uncover the existence of a hidden tradition, that of the poet-diplomat, in nineteenth-century English literature.

  • MIDLAB (Middeleeuws Inspiratie-Laboratorium voor Actueel Beleid)

    This project consists of creating and leading an innovative Think Tank, in collaboration with Martine Veldhuizen (Utrecht University).

  • Commitment of teachers in primary, secondary and secondary schools

    In this cross-sector research, we unravel the complexity of commitment by using a person-centred, multi-foci approach that has great potential given international insights.

  • Vrouw die een vaccinatie krijgt.

    Exploring bias in online vaccination content using machine learning

    Despite the fact that vaccinations save lives, vaccination rates are dropping. People deciding about vaccination often search for information online, where non-scientific, vaccination-critical information is abundant.

  • Tree of Life

    The Prokaryotic Origin of Our Immune System

    Recently, there has been a growing discussion about the potential bacterial origin of innate immune mechanisms. Undoubtedly, bacterial defense systems (DS) play a significant role in it, but what about archaea?

  • The prokaryotic origin of our Immune System

    The prokaryotic origin of our Immune System

    Recently, there has been a growing discussion about a potential bacterial origin of innate immune mechanisms. Undoubtedly, bacterial defense systems (DS) play a significant role in it, but what about archaea?

  • handdruk

    Sociale onderneming & rechtspersonenrecht

    With this research project, we aim to provide a thorough analysis of the legal possibilities within Dutch legal person law for social entrepreneurship.

  • Elise en Luis Miguel

    City Linguist

    Hoeveel talen en dialecten worden er in Nijmegen gesproken, en welke dan? Om deze vraag te beantwoorden roept de eerste stadstaalkundige ter wereld bewoners van Nijmegen op om hun eigen talen in te spreken.

  • Periodical Famines

    Periodical famines is a thorough analysis of transatlantic Irish periodical culture during and after the Great Famine, demonstrating how periodicals' transmission of famine memories shaped global cultures.

  • People communicating in different ways in a room

    Cue integration in multimodal L1 and L2 speech

    This project investigates how what you see, hear, and know promotes speech comprehension, and how these contributions may change depending on your conversation partner.

  • Beyond Crisis Architecture

    This project assesses ‘crisis’ through the lens of architectural innovation at rural settlements, moving beyond simplistic notions of ‘crisis architecture’.

  • Register van de boeken die uit de nationale bibliotheek ter leen gegeven zijn

    Reading for Change

    This project examines readers and the books that might and might not have played a role in their political behaviour. I will focus on the governing political elite who made use of the Dutch National Library during the Revolutionary era.

  • Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Manuscrits, Latin 2017, f. 2r, Augustinus Sermones V

    Recovering Anonymous Late-Antique Preachers in the Corpus of Pseudo-Augustinian Sermons

    Using both traditional and digital methodologies, this project investigates the dynamics of anonymity versus authority in shaping the medieval reception of Patristic sermons.

  • Unsetling Sources

    In the 1940s and 1950s, children’s homes in Indonesia were hazardous, prompting many to seek refuge in the Netherlands. This project examines sensitive records from that time to understand their impact on the Indisch community.

  • Gezicht op een veerhuis bij de 'Grote Pas' bij Colombo, anonymous, c. 1750

    The Alongshore City: Early Modern Colombo and the Creation of a Global South Hub (1550–1820)

    This project aims to investigate the socio-environmental impact of several successive waves of ecosystem-engineering regimes which established themselves in and around the port city of Colombo in the early modern period.

  • Several books stacked on top of each other

    Amos: A Commentary

    A commentary on the Book of Amos that offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew text, with sufficient notes to justify the translation and address underlying text-critical matters, and commentary in the form of focused exegetical essays.

  • Missing Dutch Girls

    This project focuses on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among Dutch girls between 1 and 15 between 1864 and 1930.

  • Orthodox war and peace

    Endowed chair "Orthodoxy, Human Rights, Peace Studies”

    One of the Chair’s main focus points of research is the exploration of conflicts, differences, but also intersections and potentials for mutual enrichment between the concept of human rights and patterns of the Orthodox theological tradition.