Staff members with discipline Sociology
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.


Syrian diasporic communities in Europe
Migration studies














- Sociology of social inequalities
- Sociology of higher education
- Sociology of health and well-being
- Personal network analysis
















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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.
Since 2012, he has conducted ethnographic research on electoral politics and conditional cash transfers in Northeast Brazil. 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.












Qualitative Research methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis
Member Educational Committee Sociology


She is the co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation (2019), and she has published in different disciplinary and inter-disciplinary journals, including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, JASSS, PLOS One, and Scientific Reports.




























I work on topics of violence and violent interactions, policing and police work, violence against officers and use of force, in situ experiences, embodiment, professionalism and processes of (de)escalation. I use theoretical insights from micro-sociology, the micro-sociology of violence in particular, phenomenology, culture studies, and interactional sociology. Methodologically, I use qualitative methods such as ethnographic fieldwork and interviewing and incorporate videos, in particular video elicitation.
Previously, I worked as a social worker at the homeless facilities of the Salvation Army in the Red Light district of Amsterdam and domestic violence shelter in Sioux Falls, South Dakota U.S.. Here I conducted research into experiences of violence by social workers which got published in Journal of Social Work, entitled: 'Bodies and emotions in tense and threatening situations'.
Between 2017 and 2022 I conducted research into violent interactions in policing for which I conducted an ethnography of the Dutch police.
Published papers based on this research include an analysis of the use of video elicitation during interview in Poetics, the experience of 'freezing' by officers in Policing & Society, the significance of 'situational turning points' in violent police-civilian encounters in Historical Social Research, and officers' use of neurobiological narratives in Body & Society. My dissertation is about the sense of 'being in control' and how this permeates the police and policing practices. To study this, I developed a phenomenological-interactionist perspective.
In spring of 2022 I was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Alberta, Canada. Currently, I am in the process of expanding my research into violence and policing towards understanding societal dissatisfaction and riots, again from a micro-sociological, and phenomenological and embodied perspective.
I teach in the Sociology department and am passionate about science communication. For this reason, I participated in a theatre show the 'Hoe?Zo! Show' aimed to make children enthusiastic about science. More information on this can be found here: https://hoezoshow.nl/
















Sociology of Work
Social Inequality, Mobility, and Stratification










Mobilities,
Youth,
Research communication,




























Peer relations (social networks)
Intervention research
Quantitative research methods for longitudinal research














[Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday]
Title: Interdisciplinary Understanding in Higher Education
In recent years, higher education institutes have developed more and more interdisciplinary education programmes (in the Dutch context). These programmes aim, among other things, to teach students interdisciplinary understanding, translated into knowledge and skills that make it possible to cross disciplinary boarders and contribute to complex solving.
In this PhD trajectory, we investigate the acquisition of interdisciplinary understanding by Bachelor's students who follow an interdisciplinary honours programme. We develop an instrument that measures interdisciplinary understanding (study 1), investigate which students participate in interdisciplinary education (study 2), examine what the interdisciplinary learning process looks like according to students and teachers (study 3) and measure the extent to which students aquire interdisciplinary understanding over the period of a 3-year education programme (study 4).
The research is conducted within the context of the Honours College of the University of Groningen and among high-achieving students who choose not to follow an interdisciplinary honours programme (control group).
Promotores: dr. E.P.W.A. Jansen & prof.dr. M.P.C. van der Werf
Policy Officer Education (University Services)
[Monday, Thursday]
I work for the central Strategy department Education & Students (SES) as a policy officer and I am responsible for policy issues concerning minor programmes, the institutional audit ("instellingstoets kwaliteitszorg") and the administrative coordination process ("bestuurlijke overleggen") between the Board of the University and the Faculty of Arts.










Social Entrepreneurship, Solidarity Economy
Happiness, Creativity
Sociology of Space, Practice Theory, Governmentality & Subjectivity
Radical Politics, Protest, Radical Imagination
Greece, Egypt
Orientalism
Qualitative Research, Pragmatism, Abductive Analysis


I also have a blog together with Nina Schwarzbach where we reflect on our PhD, clinical psychology and academia in general: https://www.growingwithacademia.com/






















I believe that every student benefits from expanding its worldview. This can be done by having an open attitude and being reflective of yourself and your environment. Sometimes this requires tools, such as literature, philosophy and other art forms, to be able to put feelings, thoughts and ideas into words. As a teacher I hope to be able to contribute to this. Dialogue is essential to connect with others, but time and space must be available for this. For me personally, the values connection and attention are very important and thinking outside the box is my strength within education, to bridge the gap between the form of education and the dialogue with it, with the ultimate goal of taking the student a little further.
Member of the Community of Practice Well-being of the Teaching Academy Groningen




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).








Parent-child relationships and parental imprisonment
Prison-based interventions aimed at strengthening parent-child relationships
Child-friendly prisons














Cultural Industries
Cultural Sociology
Game Studies
Sociology of Religion
Conspiracy Culture


Empirisch onderzoek
Beleidswetenschappen
Sociale zekerheid


Sociology of organizations - sociology of work - sociological theory - economic sociology - sociology of aging
Topics
Sustainable cooperation - governance - organizational control - organizational change - administrative reform - institutional change - decentralization - social network dynamics - humanitarian action

