Veni grant
First, Lex Thijssen and Nina van den Broek both received a Veni grant. This will allow them to develop their own research ideas in more detail over the course of the next three years. Lex Thijssen does research into everyday discrimination in (semi-)public spaces, looking into who is affected, why it happens, and what consequences there are for social inclusion. Nina van den Broek investigates how social relationships influence the eating patterns of young adults, and hopes that her newly-gained insights can ensure that interventions will be geared towards individual young adults.
SSH Open Competition XS
Furthermore, six grants were awarded within the NWO SSH Open Competition XS round. They were awarded to researchers who obtained their doctorates five to ten years ago. These promising requests came from:
- Olympia Colizoli - Vibrant Vowels: Enhancing Reading Fluency Through Colour-Coding
- Jasper de Groot - The Nature of Social Chemistry: Insights from a Human Lesion Study
- Margriet van Hek - Do men advance gender equality at work? How male organizational leaders drive adaptation of parental leave and parttime work among male employees.
- Madelon Hendricx-Riem - Mother and Infant in Sync: Hormonal Foundations of Mother-Infant Synchrony in Postpartum Depression
- Konstantina Kilteni - The ticklish brain
- Wim Pouw - SMASH: Synthesis and Multimodal Analytics System for Humanities
- Lisa Vandeberg - Exploring bias in online vaccination content using machine learning
SSH Open Competition L
Lastly, five researchers were awarded a SSH Open Competition L grant for large-scale, curiosity-driven research projects. They each got a subsidy of a maximum of 800.000 euros for their multiannual projects.
- Maaike Cima - Prosocial: using storytelling to stimulate prosocial behavior
- Judith Holler - How do we communicate intentions in face-to-face conversation?
- Johan Karremans (together with Anne Speckens – RUMC) - An integrative and rigorous test of the effects of mindfulness intervention in distressed romantic couples
- Rogier Mars - Morality as a hyperparameter in social decision making: A new approach to studying an age-old problem
- James McQueen - Plugging talkers in: A new solution to the variability problem in human speech recognition
We would like to congratulate all researchers with their achievements, and we want to wish them the best of luck in the execution of their projects.