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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.
11 September 2021
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.”
11 August 2021

What happens when NGOs change their strategy from one of opposition to one of state cooperation? Together with an international team of researchers, Associate Professor of International Affairs Jutta Joachim is investigating the changing role of NGOs as part of the N-Safe project. The group recently received nearly €600,000 in project funding from the Norwegian Research Council.
27 July 2021
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).
20 July 2021

Most contemporary civil wars are fought in so-called weak states, such as Somalia and Afghanistan. In these wars, where multiple armed groups operate simultaneously, local commanders ‘flip’ from rebel to government side (and vice versa) and constantly form and break alliances. This project aims to understand why they do so.
15 July 2021

Six researchers, including Vincent Marchau, Etiënne Rouwette and Hubert Korzilius from the Nijmegen school of Management, want to improve the resilience of healthcare and society by developing adaptive pandemic management.
13 July 2021

Six researchers, including Vincent Marchau, Etiënne Rouwette and Hubert Korzilius from the Nijmegen school of Management, want to improve the resilience of healthcare and society by developing adaptive pandemic management.
13 July 2021
On Thursday 10 June, researchers from the Public Administration department, in collaboration with the A&O fund and the ‘Bedrijfspoli’, gave a successful webinar for municipalities about the project 'the competency explorer'.
21 June 2021

The article The migration map trap. On the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration (2020) by Henk van Houtum and Rodrigo Bueno Lacy, both working at the Nijmegen Centre for Border Research, in the department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Nijmegen School of Management, has won the John Urry Article Prize for 2020.
11 June 2021

Professor Yvonne Benschop is the most productive author of the last 25 years in the Gender, Work and Organization journal. She is also the most cited author and occupies a central position in the authors’ network.
20 May 2021