Research projects
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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.
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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.
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Prefigurations of Peace
This project aims to uncover the existence of a hidden tradition, that of the poet-diplomat, in nineteenth-century English literature.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beyond Crisis Architecture
This project assesses ‘crisis’ through the lens of architectural innovation at rural settlements, moving beyond simplistic notions of ‘crisis architecture’.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Missing Dutch Girls
This project focuses on patterns and determinants of excess mortality among Dutch girls between 1 and 15 between 1864 and 1930.
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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.