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Women are structurally underrepresented in leading management and organization journals, a new study published today in Research Policy finds. Nora Lohmeyer of Radboud University and Carolin Auschra and Julia Bartosch of Freie Universität Berlin analyzed a dataset of 43,673 articles in fourteen top journals, and found that on average only 30 percent were written by women

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) will launch a study into the municipal-land market. On the basis of a preliminary study, commissioned by ACM, professor Erwin van der Krabben of Radboud University argues that the municipal-land market has many shortcomings that affect the functioning of the residential-construction market.

An opinion poll that was carried out by Radboud University and the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) has shown that a large majority is in favour of a citizens’ forum.

Kathya Cordova-Pozo, Huber Korzilius and Etienne Rouwette, published the the article  'Using Systems Dynamics for Capturing the Multicausality of Factors Affecting Health System Capacity in Latin America while Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic'.

The report Op weg naar Basiskwaliteit Natuur (‘On the Road to a Basic Quality Standard for Nature’), on which Professor of Environmental Policy and Politics Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers collaborated, was recently presented to the Lower House. In the report, together with researchers from Naturalis, Wageningen University & Research and the Vogelbescherming Nederland (the Dutch Society for the Protection of Birds), she considers a basic quality standard for nature. This involves the minimum quality of a particular landscape, and the conditions necessary to prevent the decline of species that are not currently under threat.

The Radboud University Centre for Analytical Modelling in the Social Sciences and Humanities (RUCAM-SSH) brings together researchers who work with analytical modelling. This analytical aspect is what sets the centre apart. And many of their projects lead to practical policy advice.

Ethnicity often plays a prominent role in debates at every level of Dutch society. But what exactly is ethnicity, and is it as set in stone as we believe? Research conducted by Radboud University’s Robbert Rademakers and André van Hoorn has shown that, during their lifetime, millions of people across the world will assume a different ethnicity. Their research will now be featured in the Journal of Development Economics. “Ethnicity is not a fixed biological fact, but a concept that is interpreted differently by everyone.”

Researcher Jan-Kees Helderman from Radboud University is involved in a project that has been awarded funding in the “Innovation of Supervision” programme in the National Research Agenda (NWA).