Qualitative ethnographic research

Syrian diasporic communities in Europe

Migration studies

Visual political communication, Information visualizations, Social networks, Digital culture, Political campaigns

I am working on the history of education. Important research topics are: development of secondary education (especially, h.b.s., gymnasium, m.m.s., Law of Secondary Education 1963); equal opportunities (Dutch experiments with comprehensive education in the 1970-1980s) and educational reform.

violent extremism, conflict transformation, peacebuilding

Prof. Anne Beaulieu holds the Aletta Jacobs Chair of Knowledge Infrastructures at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Her research and teaching provide insights into how data is created, synthesized and transformed into evidence. She also studies how databases, platforms and data flows shape what we know and who has access to this knowledge.

Children's rights law, Human Rights law, Fundamental Rights law, European Law, Administrative Law, Migration Law, Environmental law, Water law

International Business, Globalization, Cultural Differences, National Identity

After my education in communication science, social psychology and sociology, I started my PhD project in August 2017 in the department Health Psychology. My project (financed by the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding)) is on the care needs of cancer patients who suffer from depressive symptoms. During my project, I will conduct three studies; the first is an ESM study on depressive symptoms to see which symptoms are most central in cancer patients. The second study is a longitudinal study to examine how barriers, coping mechanisms, social support levels, and illness perceptions make that a large group of cancer patients with depressive symptoms does not seek help for these symptoms. In this study we will also examine if depressive symptoms decrease over time and how this relates to coping mechanisms, social support levels and illness perceptions. In a qualitative study, we will examine underlying ideas, goal dis- and re-engagement, and ask people who did seek psychological care why they decided to do so.
My project is supervised by Dr. M.J. Schroevers, Prof. Dr. A.V. Ranchor and Dr. J. Fleer.

Cooperation, Collective action, Social Innovation, Agent-Based Modelling, Experimental methods

Environmental psychology, group processes, human values, social identity. 

Teaching: Coordinator Economic and Consumer Psychology (Bachelor, year 3), supervisor Bachelor's and Master's theses. 

Research interests: I am interested in personal and group factors that drive individuals’ responses to global crises, in particular climate change. One research line I am currently working on focuses on personal and (perceived) group values. What values do individuals strongly endorse, what values do individuals perceive others to endorse, and how do such values influence individuals’ attitudes and behaviours?

Another line of research focuses on the interaction between individuals and technology, particularly within the energy domain. How can we better understand and consider the preferences and motivations of people within energy systems, how can we adjust technological innovations to user preferences and motivations, and can we give people a more active role within energy systems and the decision making about energy systems? 

In my work, I collaborate with various partners in the field, such as municipalities (e.g., Groningen, Wageningen), national governments (e.g., Ministry of Economic and Climate Affairs), energy companies (Enexis, Alliander), nature organizations (e.g., WWF, Alliance for Nature, Groninger Landschap, Dutch Association of Zoos) and schools.

Supervisor of the following postdoctoral researchers:
dr. Lisa Novoradovskaya (NWO funded, TeSoPs project),
dr. Zan Mlakar (H2020 funded, CAPABLE project).

Supervisor of the following PhD students:
Carla Zhou (CSC Scholarship),
Fernanda Reintgen Kamphuis (UG ReMa fund),
Charlie Walker Clarke (NWO funded, FlexECs project),
Catho Vermeulen (joint program with University of Ghent; VLAIO/Blauwe Cluster funded, Blue Balance Project;),
Marylise Schmid (joint program with University of Ghent; VLAIO/Blauwe Cluster funded, Blue Balance Project;),
Steph Johnson Zawadzki (NWO funded, ERSAS project).

Former postdoctoral researchers:
dr. Elliot Sharpe (NWO & ERA-Net funded, TOP-UP project)

Former PhD students:
Wang Xiao (graduation 2023; joint program with Fudan University),
Nieke Lemmen (graduation 2023; NWO funded),
Lu Liu (graduation 2022; CSC Scholarship),
Mark Verschoor.

Public administration & Policy studies

social networks, social capital, peer learning, learning communities, learning environment, internship experiences, self efficacy, coping, leadership in school teams (distributed leadership), professional development, professional commitment, wellbeing versus burnout, stress, healthcare education, educational innovations, quatitative and qualitative analysis

Coördinator van het Kennisplatform Leefbaar en Kansrijk Groningen, dat kennis en onderzoek verzamelt en deelt dat relevant is voor sociaal-maatschappelijk beleid in het Groningse gaswinningsgebied. Het Kennisplatform stimuleert samenwerkingsverbanden om meer aandacht te creëren voor sociaal-maatschappelijke impact. Het brengt mensen en kennis samen en streeft naar een samenleving waar industrie, staat en maatschappij in harmonie zijn.

Natural History, Urban Wildlife Conservation, Animal Geographies, Nature-Human Relations, Biology Field Techniques and Bats, Bees, Birds and any Beast!

My research is generally concerned with the roles of emergent technologies, non-state actors and expert knowledge in contemporary global governance. In particular, I study the on-going and varying implications of big data and blockchain technologies at the intersections of global environmental, financial and security governance. 

Information Policy

Technology Law

Data Protection Law

Cybercrime

Privacy

Security Sciences

Internet Governance

Privacy, communication technologies and indigenous peoples

Strategy

Science and Technology Studies (STS), Knowledge-Infrastructures, More-than-human ethnography, Posthumanism, Biopolitics, Sociology

Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Randomized Control Trials, Health Behaviors

Discourse, Gender and Sexuality; Sociolinguistics; Queer Linguistics; Multilingualism and Minority Languages

Collective artificial intelligence, Logical models of social network phenomena, Formal social epistemology. 

I am a language-focussed, critical discourse analyst/applied linguist interested in the role of language in professional and business contexts, in particular online. In my work I explore how language constitutes our social reality, and how we can best educate the world about this important knowledge. 
I conduct empirical linguistic-discourse analytical research, theorise and educate  about language awareness and discourse consciousness. I am an experienced and passionate researcher-educator with a sense of responsibility to nurture a future generation of critical text consumers who are also ethical, responsible and empowered communicators.
I lead on courses based on discourse analysis, often with a business/professional communication slant. I co-host the Words and Actions podcasts and am the proud co-author of the textbook Language in Business, Language at Work (working currently on the 2nd edition).

Jeroen J.H. Dekker is Honorary Professor (from 1991 to 2019 Full Professor) of History and Theory of Education at the University of Groningen. Before, he was Senior Lecturer in History and Head of the History Department at the University of Maastricht, and Lecturer in History of Educa­tion at the University of Utrecht, where he graduated in history (BA; MA and PhD cum laude) and in philosophy (BA, abridged). Next, he participated in the weekly seminar of Jacques Revel at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a visiting professor at the History and Civilisation Department of the European University Institute in Florence, the European Institute of Columbia University in New York and the University of Sassari, and Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung) in Berlin.A former President of the International Association for the History of Education (ISCHE), of the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Education (BENGOO) and of the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities, he is Honorary Life Member of ISCHE and BENGOO, one of the conveners of the Standing Working Group ‘Growing up in out-of-home care: Histories of children and youth in foster families and residential homes’, Editor of Paedag­ogica Histo­rica, International Journal of the History of Education, Member of the Editorial Board of History of Education, Member of the Advisory Board of Historia y Memoria de la Educación, Member of the scientific committee of Annali di storia dell’Educazione e delle Istituzioni Educative, member of the Leuven Research Community on Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education and chair of the Board of the Stichting Paedagogica Historica. From 2016 to 2019 he was a Member of the Committee for the Study on Institutional Child Abuse set up by the Dutch government. His publications deal with the longue durée social and cultural history of education, parenting, childhood, schooling, and children at risk.     

Disasters; Crisis Management; Vulnerability Analysis; Public Safety; Public Health

Social-economic History, Europe since 1750, European Regional Development. The Netherlands and its regions, Historical Network Analysis, Public History.

politics, poverty, conditional cash tranfers, policy implementation, racism, minorities, diversity, development anthropology/sociology

Dr Flávio Eiró (he/him) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts (Minorities & Multilingualism), University of Groningen. He is also Director of Studies of the University Minor Development Studies.

As a sociologist and political ethnographer, he has conducted ethnographic research on electoral politics and conditional cash transfers in Northeast Brazil since 2012. Flávio has published widely on issues surrounding politics, poverty and anti-poverty policies, policy implementation, and climate change adaptation, with a special focus on Brazil.

Flávio teaches and researches issues related to politics of diversity and minorities, with a focus on race and racism.

Culture and Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Art and Culture

Fields of expertise: Science and Technology Studies (STS), Science Studies, Knowledge infrastructures, Science-society relations, Multispecies care, Actionable environmental knowledge

My Ph.D. project investigates (1) how bird ecologists create knowledge claims in contemporary knowledge infrastructures where the emerging and long-standing data collection and analysis techniques are used at the same time, (2) as well as how to contribute to such knowledge infrastructures by tackling credibility issues observed in the study case.

I am highly motivated to intervene with environmental research norms, practices, and tools to transform the type of knowledge they produce into a just and actionable one for multispecies liveable futures.

Team effectiveness; inter-team and inter-organization cooperation processes

Digital Media; Social Networks; Computational Social Science

Climate Change impacts/ extreme events
Climate change mitigation
Energy Transition 
Antarctica

Social integration, Cooperation, Social networks, Agent-based modelling, Social complexity

(Global) Media, Cultural Industries, Internet Governance, Gender and Technology, Critical Theory and Decoloniality

Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multilingualism

My research focuses on understanding and promoting sustainable and healthy behaviours. Specifically, I investigate topics such as the Circular Economy, Microplastics, Circular Plastic, and Recycling. Collaborating with experts from various fields and practitioners, my goal is to develop effective strategies for behaviour change. I do this by exploring how design, art, and serious games that integrate theories on behaviour change can raise awareness of pressing societal challenges and encourage individuals to adopt more sustainable and healthy behaviours.

Survey Methodology: mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys, targeting of hard-to-survey populations, interviewer-respondent interaction.

Qualitative Research methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis

Member Educational Committee Sociology

Citizen Science, Social Innovation, Public Participation, Water and Environmental Governance, Smart Cities, Impact Evaluation

Francesca is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a strong interest in micro-foundations of social phenomena. She uses theoretical analysis, agent-based modeling and lab experiments to investigate how individual minds are geared to achieve social sustainability and resilience. In her work she focuses on gossip and reputation as social mechanisms that, depending on the interplay betwen individual cognitions and network structure (within and between organizations), shape sustainable cooperation. She is interested in the realistic modeling of human behavior to improve risk communication, emergency management and disaster resilience. She is one of the coordinators of the Special Interest Group of the European Social Simulation Association SIG-BRICSS: Building Resilience with Social Simulations .

Social enterprises; Social entrepreneurship; New generation social enterprises (NGSE); Intrapreneurship; Social impact assessment; Benefit-sharing; Shared value; Social return on investment; Social licence to operate; Free, Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC)

kennisontwikkeling in interactie, uitleginteracties, basisonderwijs, conversatie-analyse

Decision-making, well-being at work, morality, culture

Child nutrition, Global Health, Capability Approach, Inequalities

Social, International, and Globalisation Theory; Global Politics of Science and Technology; Global History and Politics of Agriculture and Food-Systems; Deep History and Anthropology of Knowledge; Historical Epistemology; Philosophy of Science

Qualitative Methods
Anthropology
Social Impact Assessment
Environment, Social and Governance
International Development
Ethnography
Indigenous Ethnology
Project Management

My research draws together psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and pedagogy with the aim to unravel the psychosocial mechanisms of resilience in youth. Using an idiographic approach (i.e., Experience Sampling Methods), I investigate to what extent youth’s resilience - and the intergenerational transmission thereof - is shaped by contextual factors in daily life.

Keywords: Well-being and mental health, resilience, collecting real-time data by smartphone (Experience Sampling Method), interventions, open science

Katrien Helmerhorst works as an assistant professor at the unit of Child and Family Welfare. Her research has a focus on three main topics: 1) parenting behavior of (professional) caregivers, 2) early childcare centers, and 3) effectiveness of parenting interventions. A common thread in her research is observing a wide range of parenting behaviors (e.g., sensitivity, challenging parenting behavior, mind-mindedness, language and developmental stimulation, parent-child attachment relationship).

In 2014, she completed her PhD at the department of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam (UvA). During her PhD, she developed and evaluated an intervention program (video-feedback training) for professional caregivers in center based child care. During her first postdoc at the UvA, she obtained a subsidy granted by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to develop and test effectiveness of an intervention program for caregiver training in vocational education. In 2017, Helmerhorst started a second postdoc at the Department of Sociology (Family sociology) Erasmus University Rotterdam within an interdisciplinary research team in which the family is investigated within its wider context, such as the influence of socio-economic status (diversity, intergenerational transmission of inequality, policy (parental leave), and gender ideologies of men and women in modern society. She was the lead investigator of the 3HOEK study (VIDI & ERC Starting Grant by Prof. dr. Renske Keizer), which follows 104 families (fathers, mothers, and 3-year-olds) from Rotterdam. In this project, she studies parenting behavior of both fathers and mothers, parent-child interactions, family functioning, and child development in families from both relatively high as well as relatively low socioeconomic backgrounds.

My current work focuses on the influence of place-specific sociotechnical imaginaries on governance processes related to the transition towards a circular economy. 

Particular fields of interest in this perspective are: imagined futures, the governance of innovations, science and technology studies, the politics of sustainability transitions.

Citizen Science, Sociolinguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Phonetics,

Studying evidence & decision-making in drug regulation through qualitative methods. Interested in replication, open science, science policy, STS & metascience

Klaus Hubacek is a Professor in Science, Technology and Society at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is chair of Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society (IREES) and chair of the board of Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen (ESRIG). Klaus is currently also a visiting professor in geographical sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously he worked or held visiting positions at the University of Leeds, UK, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China, the University of Cambridge, UK, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. His research focus is on conceptualizing and modeling the interactions between human and environmental systems. Klaus has been recently involved in building an integrated climate assessment model funded by Horizon 2020 and on forecasting carbon emissions funded by NASA. Klaus has published over 200 research articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics such as climate change adaptation and mitigation, participatory modeling, management of ecosystems services, land use change and governance. He is recognized as a highly cited researcher with multiple papers in the top 1% by citations. Klaus conducted studies for a number of national agencies in Austria, the Czech Republic, China, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the U.S., and international institutions such as the World Bank and the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB).  Klaus was a lead author of the most recent 6th assessment report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) leading chapters on Behavior and Consumption-based Emissions.

Sociolinguistics, Minority languages, Indigenous Languages, Language Revitalisation, Multilingualism, Language attitudes and ideologies, Collaborative Research.

Human Geography, Regional Planning, Rural Sociology, Applied Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Water Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Disaster Risk Governance and Management, Social Impact Assessment, Community Resilience, Community Engagement, Community Empowerment, Community Development, Transformative Learning, Sustainability Transformation, Social Sustainability, rural and mountain regions and communities.

Social complexity, agent based simulation, innovation diffusion, opinion dynamics

Minority languages, language endangerment and revitalisation
Language prestige, attitudes and ideologies
External history of Romance languages
French linguistics, French regional languages, Occitan and Catalan

Political Geography, Economic Geography, Regional Science, Social and Spatial Inequalities, Happiness and Well-being, Migration

Uroš Kovač is a social anthropologist working on youth, gender, migration, religion, development, and sports. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Cameroon, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Europe. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the preparation of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie application at the Centre for Religion, Conflict, and Globalization (CRCG).

Health Outcome Measurement

Ethnography

Marine Spatial Planning, offshore system integration, hydrogen, energy transition, North Sea policy

leadership in planning processes
planning theory
post-growth planning
regional and state planning
research-practice interfaces
roles of planners
spatial transformations

Infrastructure Planning:
Management in Planning
Adaptive Planning and Programming
Public-public and Public-private cooperation
Project- and program management
Market systems and dynamic contracting
Governance en institutional design

History and politics
Culture, memory, identity, and heritage
Central and Eastern Europe, especially Western Balkans/the former Yugoslavia
Language and literature, film and media

Comparative Public Policy; Social Policy; Differentiation in the European Union; Euroscepticism; Political Long-Termism

Latest publications:

Experimental differentiation as an innovative form of cooperation in the European Union: Evidence from the Nordic Battlegroup, Contemporary Security Policy (Open Access)

The Routledge Handbook of Differentiation in the European Union, co-edited with Stefan Gänzle and Jarle Trondal. (Open Access Introduction)

‘Differentiation in the European Union in post-Brexit and -pandemic times: Macro-level developments with meso-level consequences’, Journal of Common Market Studies, 60:S1, 26-37 (Open Access)

Current research project:

Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic (REGROUP), Horizon Europe, 2022-25

conservation social sciences, protected area management, landscape planning, participatory GIS, political ecology

Interdisciplinary approach (complexity, developmental and clinical science); time serial methods to understand (individual) processes of (clinical) change and psychopathology. 

Socio-spatial planning

Qualitative research methods
Health Geography
Older adult mobility experiences

Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Internet Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Language Ideologies, Linguistic Prescriptivism, Language and Gender

International students; College students' adjustment; Cultural Intelligence

energy system transtion, multi-level perspective, industrial symbiosis, agent-based modelling

Jesse David Marinus is an External PhD Candidate at Campus Fryslân, specializing in the fields of Health Policy, Social Determinants, Participatory Research, Citizens Science, Future Sciences, and Systems Theory. Currently, Jesse David is employed as a researcher at Planbureau Fryslân, where they contribute to the advancing policy- and decision-making in Fryslân. Jesse David's research interests lie in exploring the potential of participatory research and citizen science in shaping future healthcare systems. They are passionate about engaging diverse stakeholders, including community members, policymakers, and healthcare providers, to co-create sustainable and inclusive solutions for public health challenges.

My research focuses on the conditions under which governance arrangements lead to the reduction of vulnerability and the enhancement of resilience of people exposed to climate-related and other hazards.  It has involved mainly a comparative approach whereby case studies are drawn from contexts as diverse as South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe.  Characterised by mixed qualitative and quantitative methods and co-production with local partners, my research is ultimately informed by a disciplinary background rooted in political science, law and sociology.  

Who is responsible for global structural injustice? This is the question that motivates my research. Through engagement with Iris Marion Young’s “social connection model” of responsibility ­– the idea that individuals bear political responsibility for structural injustices they are connected to – I explore the responsibilities of individuals, as well as corporate actors. I am writing my first book on this topic, With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming). I also have research interests in reparations for slavery and intersectional feminism.

I am an Assistant Professor in Political Theory at Campus Fryslân, an interdisciplinary faculty at the University of Groningen. Previously, I was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge; a Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where I founded the St Hilda’s Feminist Salon; a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Justitia Amplificata, Goethe University Frankfurt; and a Teaching Associate in Ethics and World Politics at the University of Cambridge. I did my PhD and MA in Political Theory at UCL (University College London). My undergraduate degree was in Politics and International Relations at the University of Manchester.

media industries, cultural studies, creator labor, gender studies, feminist studies

Interfaculty PhD candidate with a background in the visual arts researching the future of our digital past, connected to the Knowledge Infrastructures department at Campus Fryslan and the Department of Media and Journalism Studies. Embedded in Science and Technology Studies and Digital Humanities, with special attention to digital sustainability and co-creation practices. Expertise in ethnographic collaborative research.

Qualitative and quantitative research into cultural represention of marginality, prison reading programmes, reader-response investigation, prison systems in South America, literary representation of marginal groups, early modern urban history (in particular Madrid), microhistory, experience in local outreach projects, as well as international exchange between outreach initiatives

Research expertise in the areas of gender and feminisms, decolonization, and poverty, through the lens of tourism. Also interested in qualitative approaches to research, in particular arts-based and decolonizing methdologies.

Embodiment, mobilities, technology, digital geographies, methods.

My research is part of the interdisciplinary EU project "CircEUlar" and revolves around understanding factors that influence whether people engage in circular consumption behaviors, such as refusing and rethinking consumption. I am particularly interested in circular citizenship behaviors, including activism and advocacy for a circular economy, as well as establishing new circular structures. To shed light on these behaviors, I focus on values, beliefs, personal and social norms, as well as efficacy beliefs and the ascription of responsibility. My focus areas are mobility, building and household services, and digitalisation.

Qualitative research methodology; Local Economic Research Development; Dialogue in Management teams

Neuroimaging Techniques, Statistics, Psychology, Sociology

Bullying, group processes and social status
Peer relations (social networks)
Intervention research 
Quantitative research methods for longitudinal research

Prajal Pradhan studied agricultural engineering and environmental management. He has received the ERC Starting Grant 2022.  Prajal was a lead author of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land and a contributing author of the AR6 IPCC WG III Report and the AR6 IPCC WG II Report. He has experience in designing relevant research on sustainable development, climate change, and food systems. Prajal is an expert in food systems, climate change, and sustainable development goals (SDGs). His current research focuses on understanding the necessary conditions for long-term sustainability, including achieving SDGs, urban transformations, and climate resilience.

Social networks and environmental change (at different levels and scales); environmental inequality; global trade networks and inequality; resilience; adaptation; climate change; participatory stakeholder networks; social learning and participatory modeling; research methods training and teaching.

Arctic bird ecology, human geography, science and technology studies, nature conservation policy, post-humanism

Citizenship education, history of pedagogy and education policy, science and technology studies, political and continental philosophy

Management Controls
Inter-organizational networks
Risk management
Healthcare & Public sector

Dynamics of Pro-Environmental Behaviour, Agent-based Modelling

      Dr. Arianna Rotulo works as Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen – Campus Fryslan. She got her PhD in Primary Care and Public Health from Queen Mary University of London in May 2022 with a research project on the effects of fiscal decentralization on equitable access to healthcare services.      Arianna combines econometrics, economic geography, and the political economy of health to understand the role of healthcare services in the distribution and development of avoidable healthcare disparities. Currently she is interested in interdisciplinary research on health systems preparedness, international health governance, and degrowth. Arianna also coordinates the Global Equity and Resilient Health Systems course and teaches Principles of Economics, Statistics, and Research Methods at Campus Fryslan. Arianna is part of an international team based at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, working on the project ‘IMF and Health Care Reforms in Europe’, funded by ELIDEK. Between 2021 and 2022 Arianna acted as a consultant to the San Gallicano Institute on how to improve the welfare of the vulnerable population of Rome, within the Mi.Fa.Bene project, involving the Municipality of Rome, the Italian Ministry of Interior, and the European Commission. 

I study the ontology or process mechanisms of self and identity (and related concepts) as situated in time and context, and I am primarily interested in family and educational contexts. In much of my research I adopt a complex dynamic systems approach, which I apply to theoretical or micro-genetic work. In much of my current research I am inspired by critical psychology, discursive psychology, and philosophical psychology. 

Environmental Leadership
Pro-Environmental Behavior
Finance
Data Science

Science and Technology Studies, Media studies, user studies, co-creation/co-design practices, Living lab methodologies, Digital Humanities, Serendipity, Information studies

Arctic social Science, Stake- and rightsholder involvement, transdisciplinary research, co-production of knowledge, polar tourism

philosophy and theory of science, science communication, theory of psychology and the cognitive sciences, philosophy of psychiatry, ethics of the neurosciences, interdisciplinary research and teaching, teaching to different audiences within and outside of the university

Bert Scholtens is the Professor of Sustainable Banking and Finance. Fields he operates in are Banking, Finance, Economics;
Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investing, Financial intermediation, Energy Finance, Financial institutions (banks, pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, etc.), International finance, Financial systems, Environmental economics, Ethical Finance.

Disasters; Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergencies; Child Protection; Crisis Management; Public Safety; Public Health

Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Social Semiotics, Multimodality, Argumentation Studies

Jaana Serres is an anthropologist with a focus on global flows of popular culture in Africa and the Middle East. Her research investigates the construction of citizenship and practices of future-making through the lens of transnational cultural entrepreneurship. From 2018 to 2021, Jaana was the Ioma Evans-Pritchard scholar in the social anthropology of Africa at Oxford University, where she completed her PhD on the "Africa to the world" movement. Her research has also been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the FASOPO (Fonds d'Analyse des Sociétés Politiques) and the National Sector Plan for the Social Sciences & Humanities. Prior to her academic career, Jaana practiced law in New York, Paris and London.  

Science education in out-of-school context and science identity.

Agent-based model, Complex system, Network analysis

Religion, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Religion and Politics; Religion and Human Security; Climate Change, Conflict, Peace and Security; Community Development; Civil Society and Social Movements; 

Youth studies; social and educational youth issues; youth participation; educational innovations; learning communities; active learning; gender; diversity

Pablo Tittonell is Professor of Agroecology and Sustainable Landscapes at the University of Groningen, and Senior associate researcher at the French International Cooperation Centre for Agricultural Research and Development (CIRAD). He holds a WWF-endowed Chair on Resilient Landscapes for Nature and People at the Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences, and has been nominated Principal Research Scientist by Argentina’s National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) since 2017, formerly with a seat at the Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.In Argentina, he acted as national coordinator of the Natural Resources and Environment Program of the Ministry of Agriculture until 2018, coordinating the work of more than 1500 researchers nation-wide. He was Chair Professor of the Farming Systems Ecology Group at Wageningen University, in The Netherlands, and acts as external Professor at the Ecole Doctorale GAïA of the University of Montpellier, France and at the National University of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an agronomist by training and worked both in the private sector and in academic/research organisations. He holds a PhD in Production Ecology and Resource Conservation and his areas of expertise include agroecology, soil fertility, biodiversity and systems analysis. His recent areas of interest include human-nature interactions in multifunctional landscapes, and their adaptation to global change. He participated in a diversity of research, development and education projects around the world on design, resilience and adaptation of farming systems, with a focus on interacting social-ecological processes. His career in international research started at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility (TSBF) Institute of CIAT in Nairobi, Kenya, and includes a period at the University of Zimbabwe. At CIRAD (Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement) in Montpellier, France he led an international research team on Systems Design and Evaluation with activities in La Réunion, Brazil, Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Benin, Kenya and Zimbabwe. Fluent in Spanish, English, French and Dutch, he is a member of the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification, contributing author of the IPBES (Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) report, serves as editor of several international journals, published more than 160 scientific articles (H-index 44), consults for the FAO, for international NGOs and for the CGIAR, trained a vast number of active young researchers, PhD students and postdocs with fieldwork in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Segregation, Inequality, Social Integration, Social Networks

Paul Upham is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist specializing in energy supply and demand. He works on the social processes involved in energy transitions, at individual, organisation and system levels, and is particularly interested in connecting these levels to provide an integrated understanding. For this purpose, he draws on the literatures of social psychology (e.g. regarding place and public objection to energy infrastructure); socio-technical transitions theory and innovation studies; science and technology studies; and human geography. Previously, Paul has been Chair of Human Behaviour and Sustainable Development at Leuphana University; researcher at the Sussex Energy Group, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex; Visiting Professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at the University of Utrecht; Visiting Professor at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE); University Senior Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds; and Senior Research Fellow in Tyndall Centre Manchester and Manchester Business School. He is an Affiliate of the Centre for Integrated Energy Research at the University of Leeds.

Keywords to describe research:
social impact assessment; social impact management; project induced displacement & resettlement; social licence to operate; social sustainability; extractive industries & society; business & human rights; human rights impact assessment; Indigenous rights; Free, Prior & Informed Consent (FPIC); benefit sharing; community engagement; public participation; avoiding the resource curse; shared value; corporate social responsibility; university social responsibility; sense of place; place attachment; endogenous regional development; rural communities; social aspects of climate change; applied social research; rural sociology; environmental sociology; natural resource sociology; sociology of agriculture & food; human geography; cultural geography.

Other matters to note:

Prof Vanclay was awarded the 2014 Individual Award from the International Association for Impact Assessment for his sustained contribution to the theory and practice of social impact assessment.
 
Prof Vanclay has been a visiting professor with: the University of Eastern Finland, 2012; the University of Sao Paulo (San Carlos campus), Brazil,  2012; the University of Southern Queensland, 2016; National Taiwan University, 2017; and the North West A&F University, China, 2017. 

Prof Vanclay was President of the International Rural Sociology Association from 2000 to 2004. He also has a long affiliation with the International Association for Impact Assessment including past member of its Board of Directors, and various Committee Chair appointments. He was Program Chair for the Tenth World Congress of Rural Sociology (Rio de Janiero, Brazil, 2000).

Acceptability of new mobility innovations | Sustainable mobility | Traffic safety 

- Families with multiple and complex problems (FMCP)
- Intensive family interventions
- Effective elements of care for FMCP
- Effectiveness studies
- Taxonomy of interventions for families with multiple and complex problems (TIFMP)

* Cooperation/collaboration within and between teams, work groups, and organizations (i.e., boundary spanning).
* Resilience, adaptability, and disruption management of teams and organizations;
* Team management, interventions, design, and composition;
* Management of vital infrastructure organizations;
* Innovative organizational designs, such as multiteam systems, that can be used for combining the unique expertise of diverse groups in complex and dynamic task environments.

I make sure that people are able to get their jobs done. This is done through training, experiential learning, and counceling in order to: devise clear goals, design and monitoring processes, map out the necessary and available resources, foster openness to new interpretations of the situation at hand, (re)align expectations, strategically encourag team-members' inspiration, and mediate between diverse stakeholders. Having resided in Europe and South America, I thrive in cross-cultural exchanges. Main activities at RuG: · Tailored and coordinated environments for students to create, prototype, and report their own entrepreneurial projects at the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, the Honour's College, the University College (Liberal Arts), and the Faculty of Business and Economics.· Coached entrepreneurial teams in designing and implementing their projects.· Managed the teams conducting the yearly Falling Walls pitch competition. Data-driven management:· Coordinated VentureLab Weekend, leading a team of coaches, business experts, and judges, and successfully transitioning the experience to an online environment.· Reported the social impact of the Centre of Entrepreneurship and the Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship to government and business leaders.· Mapped out the Centre of Entrepreneurship’s customer journeys. Teaching: "Technology-based Entrepreneurship" (for Faculty of Science and Engineering), "Organizing for Opportunity Development" (Honour's College), "Media Entrepreneurship" (Faculty of Arts), "Leadership & Entrepreneurship" (Faculty of Arts), and Guest lectures for the student association EBF: "Explore your Entrepreneurial Potential", and "Entrepreneurship Can(‘t) Be Taught".

Nature conservation, energy transition, energy cooperatives, science-society dynamics

Public administration; administrative law; procedural law; migration law; asylum law; regulation; enforcement and supervision

University-Industry collaboration

Interdisciplinary work combining philosophy, sociology and economics; social norm (change); culture; values; national identity

public policy and governance, with a particular focus on wellbeing, health and poverty

Social Network Analysis