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.
Qualitative ethnographic research
Syrian diasporic communities in Europe
Migration studies
Syrian diasporic communities in Europe
Migration studies
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a.albakkor rug.nl
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Legal socialization, legal literacy, narrative studies, prison studies
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g.a.albornoz.barra rug.nl
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PhD student
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Public discourses and public opinion of crime and punishment.
Social reactions to criminality and the criminal justice system.
Gendered aspects of crime and violence.
Social reactions to criminality and the criminal justice system.
Gendered aspects of crime and violence.
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Associate Professor of Criminology
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violent extremism, conflict transformation, peacebuilding
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f.a.badurdeen rug.nl
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Labour sociology
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jan.behrens rug.nl
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I focus on societal health inequalities experienced by LGBTQIA+ people which I approach with an intersectional feminist lens and applying minority stress theory, social identity theory, and institutionalism guide my research.
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Public Administration
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a.c.belloir rug.nl
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Lecturer and PhD Candidate
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International migration, transnational social protection, personal network analysis, mixed-methods research design, health and well-being
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b.bilecen rug.nl
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Professor of Sociology and Rosalind Franklin Fellow
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rural development, social innovation, rural mobility and migration, rural magrinalisation, rural governance, participatory governance, animal welfare, rural gender, sustainable food production and consumption, green care, multifunctional agriculture
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b.b.bock rug.nl
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Professor for Population Decline and Quality of Life in Northern Netherlands
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sociology of education, school careers, inequality and stratification, family sociology
cultural diplomacy, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership
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d.z.boulil rug.nl
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Lecturer
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Collective action, Social Innovation, Experimental and simulation methods
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l.bouman rug.nl
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Assistant professor
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Historical demography; Reproductive health; Maternal and child health; History of nursing; Gender; Inequalities; Medical and health humanities; sub-Saharan Africa
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h.a.j.bras rug.nl
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Aletta Jacobs Professor of Economic and Social History, with special attention to Global Demography and Health
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International marketing and communications. International student recruitment. Social media. KPI analysis.
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m.carpenedo.rodrigues rug.nl
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Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Felow
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Mental health; psychiatry; recovery; psychosis; severe mental illness; psychosocial interventions; research in clinical practice; care standards
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Professor of Recovery from Severe Mental Illness
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Agent-based Modeling, Social Networks, Web Scraping, Data Science, Cooperation
Dr Alex de Lacey is Assistant Professor in Popular Music at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is the author of Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music (Routledge, 2023). His research on rap music has been published in... read more
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Sociology, Clinical and Social Psychology
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c.e.m.j.van.dijk rug.nl
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Honorary professor Pharmacy Health Services Research
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game theory, exchange networks, collective decision making, mathematical sociology
status, antisocial behavior, risk behavior,adolescence, social networks
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Associate Professor
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statistics, social network analysis, multilevel analysis
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Full Professor of Statistics, in particular models for Social Network Analysis
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Social influence, opinion polarization, agent-based modeling, ethnic diversity, radical-right
Social integration, Cooperation, Social networks, Agent-based modelling, Social complexity
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Professor
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trust, cooperation, social networks, social influence, experiments
gender, decolonial studies, Indigenous studies, feminist movement, feminist democracy, development studies.
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g.a.gallardo.lastra rug.nl
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a.m.h.gauthier rug.nl
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Honorary Professor of Comparative Family Studies
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Survey Methodology: mixed-mode and mixed-device surveys, targeting hard-to-survey populations, interviewer-respondent interaction.
Qualitative Research Methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis. Vice-Chair of the Sociology Exam Committee
Qualitative Research Methods: interviews, focus groups, thematic analysis. Vice-Chair of the Sociology Exam Committee
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marieke.haan rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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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... read more
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f.giardini rug.nl
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Associate professor
sociology of work, public policy, social welfare
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Associate Professor
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s.de.groot02 umcg.nl
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PhD Candidate
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I study nonprofit and public organizations that aim to improve the situation and position of disadvantaged groups in society. I focus on the relationship between these organizations' policies and interventions, their organizational features and the... read more
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Associate Professor of Sociology (with ius promovendi)
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Sociale netwerkanalyse, criminele netwerken
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s.r.hiemstra rug.nl
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Junior Researcher 'Statushoudersproject'
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Statistics, missing data, multiple imputation, social network analysis
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Assistant Professor
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Bullying and victimization; Anti-bullying interventions; Social network analysis and interventions; Social-emotional development; Prosocial and antisocial behavior; Peer relations; Educational sociology.
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Associate Professor
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Critical Disaster Studies, Social Movement History, Social Reproduction Theory, Marxist-Feminism
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p.illner rug.nl
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Lecturer in American Studies
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I am postdoctoral fellow in the AFREXTRACT project, researching the extractive lifeworlds and the political ecology of crude oil extraction in Africa. Through a combination of ethnographic and archival approaches, my research foregrounds the myriad ways... read more
Social networks and segregation
Quantitative research, methods, statistics, demography, datacollection, family and life course, divorce, migration, social inequality, intergenerational relations.
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Professor at NIDI
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LGBTQ+ youth, substance use (smoking, alcohol, marijuana), mental health (depression, anxiety), sexual orientation, gender identity
Kim Knibbe is Associate Professor Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. Grounding her work in ethnographic research, she theorize the ways religion is a factor in contemporary societies and interacts with secularity, particularly around the themes... read more
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Associate Professor Sociology and Anthropology of Religion
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My main current research interest is the study of social class, and educational background in particular. Combining sociological and social psychological approaches, we are using a social identity framework to understand the effect of education on social... read more
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Assistant professor
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Lydia Laninga-Wijnen did her PhD at the department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She has worked on the project "Social Network Analysis of Risk behavior in Early Adolescence" and examined the role of popular... read more
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a.m.laninga-wijnen rug.nl
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Postdoctoral fellow
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Ilya Lavrov is an interdisciplinary researcher specialising in resilient societies and decision-making in politics and business. With a keen interest in public policy, digitalisation, transdisciplinarity, cooperation and complex societal issues, he delves... read more
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i.lavrov rug.nl
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Dr Seonok started working at the Faculty of Arts. As a sociologist, she is interested in social inequalities in general. In particular, her expertise is in global labor migration, work, inequality, racial hierarchies, class, and gender. She recently... read more
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Lecturer
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cognitive sociology, microfoundations for theories on collective phenomena, goal-framing theory, theory of goals and wellbeing (SPF theory), pro- and antisocial behavior solidarity, groups and relationships, community, governance in and of organizations,... read more
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Full Professor of Cognitive Sociology
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Organizational Sociology
Sociology of Work
Social Inequality, Mobility, and Stratification
Sociology of Work
Social Inequality, Mobility, and Stratification
Cognitive social structures, triadic relations model, perception of friendship
intergroup relations, agent-based modeling, social networks
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a.p.m.lucardie rug.nl
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Senior Research Fellow
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Sociology of religion, secularism, governance of religious diversity, cities, governance networks, public institutions, contempotary Jewish communities, non-religion, apostasy
cooperation, social preferences, social networks
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PhD Candidate
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Behavioral Change, Environmental Psychology, Habits, Human Robot Interaction
Short clip (in Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8WeU7KmIfs
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j.g.nieuwenhuis rug.nl
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Assistant professor
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t.nowak rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
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Biopsychosociale benadering van gezondheidszorg
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a.ouwendijk rug.nl
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Junior Teacher Psychology & Educational Sciences
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Social Movements, Iran, Middle East Politics
Residential (im)mobility, internal migration, family networks, metropolitan areas, neighbourhoods
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z.e.pardoel umcg.nl
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Researcher and PhD-student
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Bullying, group processes and social status
Peer relations (social networks)
Intervention research
Quantitative research methods for longitudinal research
Peer relations (social networks)
Intervention research
Quantitative research methods for longitudinal research
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rozemarijn.van.der.ploeg rug.nl
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Assistant professor
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Research expertise: Multi-scale social networks as drivers of climate change impacts & socio-environmental inequalities; stakeholder networks as supportive mechanisms for improving environmental governance outcomes (e.g. social learning,... read more
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Associate Professor in Networks, Sustainability, and Human Dimensions of Environmental Change
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d.raven rug.nl
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RoQua Scientific Coordinator
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Workplace inclusion, disclosure, and identity management of employees with a concealable stigmatized minority identity, with a specific focus on lesbian, gay, and bisexual people
My (Phd) research focusses on social relations (e.g. social capital, group identity) and how they influence health and wellbeing. I study these proceses in the context of a larger (applied) project "Gronings Perpectief", in which we study the social impact... read more
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PHD Researcher
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scientific concept formation, relationship theory and policy, policy evaluation and policy reconstruction
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Lecturer
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Research methods, problem-based learning, social identity & cooperation
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m.roos rug.nl
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Lecturer
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a.scheuer rug.nl
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PhD student
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Secretary Faculty Board Arts
As board secretary, I play a key role in supporting and coordinating administrative processes within the Faculty of Arts. I advise the Faculty Board on policy dossiers, monitor administrative procedures and ensure good... read more
As board secretary, I play a key role in supporting and coordinating administrative processes within the Faculty of Arts. I advise the Faculty Board on policy dossiers, monitor administrative procedures and ensure good... read more
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j.e.schijf rug.nl
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Board secretary
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Adolescent psychology, social relationships, forensic psychology, behavioral development
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j.j.sijtsema rug.nl
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Theory: Impression Management | Social Evaluations
Contexts: academic scientists, creative industries, professional cycling, hybrid organizations
Contexts: academic scientists, creative industries, professional cycling, hybrid organizations
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c.silvestri rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Innovation Management & Strategy
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computational social science, parenting, childhood, machine learning, R, Python
Conversation Analysis, Text Analysis, Survey Research
schrijfvaardigheid; evolutionaire sociologie
social networks, multilevel analysis, stochastic models in the social and behavioral sciences, statistics
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Full Professor
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Cultural Economy (Economy as Culture), Neoliberalism
Social Entrepreneurship, Solidarity Economy
Happiness, Creativity
Sociology of Space, Practice Theory, Governmentality & Subjectivity
Radical Politics, Protest, Radical Imagination
Greece, Egypt
Orientalism
Qu... read more
Social Entrepreneurship, Solidarity Economy
Happiness, Creativity
Sociology of Space, Practice Theory, Governmentality & Subjectivity
Radical Politics, Protest, Radical Imagination
Greece, Egypt
Orientalism
Qu... read more
Personal network data collection and experience sampling methodology applied to personalised psychotherapy. I also have a blog together with Nina Schwarzbach where we reflect on our PhD, clinical psychology and academia in general: https://www... read more
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m.stadel rug.nl
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PhD student
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social networks, stochastic modelling
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Associate Professor
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Analytical Sociology, Agent-based Modeling, Experimental Sociology, Social Networks, Computational Social Science, Social Epistemology
aging , lifecourse, social relations,self-management and self-regulation, well-beinghappiness
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Associate professor
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fertility outcomes; data science in the social sciences; simulation; R; visualisation; human behavioural ecology; biosocial approach; height
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g.stulp rug.nl
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Professor Computational Social Sciences, in particular Family Sociology
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Agent-based model, Complex system, Network analysis
sustainable cooperation; organizational sociology; interprofessional education
Youth studies; social and educational youth issues; youth participation; educational innovations; learning communities; active learning; gender; diversity
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Full Professor (em)
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Medische Ethiek, Medische Professionaliteit, Medische Sociologie
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d.g.van.tol umcg.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Segregation, Inequality, Social Integration, Social Networks
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j.tolsma rug.nl
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Professor
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m.trippenzee rug.nl
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(Junior) academic teacher
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s.r.tumeltshammer rug.nl
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PhD student
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International migration, demographic characteristics and behaviour of migrant populations, family formation, intergenerational relationships
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h.a.g.de.valk rug.nl
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Honorary Professor of Migration and the life course
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Bullying and victimization, prosocial and antisocial behavior, social network analysis, social norms, criminality and security
Qualitative research | Self-management of well-being interventions
Child wellbeing and parental imprisonment
Parent-child relationships and parental imprisonment
Prison-based interventions aimed at strengthening parent-child relationships
Child-friendly prisons
Parent-child relationships and parental imprisonment
Prison-based interventions aimed at strengthening parent-child relationships
Child-friendly prisons
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s.d.venema rug.nl
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PhD student
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Specifically teaching and measuring competencies and citizenship
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Lecturer, Teacher trainer social science and citizenship
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j.c.weeting rug.nl
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Coordinator Graduate School and Study Advisor Master students, Faculty of Philosophy
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h.m.van.der.werf rug.nl
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Sociology of Work, Sociology of organisation
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Associate Professor
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lars.de.wildt rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Media & Cultural Industries
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Sociology of Law
Empirical Research
Policy Sciences
Social Security
Empirical Research
Policy Sciences
Social Security
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Extern
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Subdisciplines
Sociology of organizations - sociology of work - sociological theory - economic sociology - sociology of aging
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Sustainable cooperation - governance - organizational control - organizational change - administrative reform -... read more
Sociology of organizations - sociology of work - sociological theory - economic sociology - sociology of aging
Topics
Sustainable cooperation - governance - organizational control - organizational change - administrative reform -... read more
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Full Professor
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Diasporas and Transnational communities; Migrant incorporation/integration; Cultural Identity and Belonging; Values; Alienation; Qualitative Analysis.
Heritage Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Urban Renewal; Community, Groups and Individuals.
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chengcheng.yang rug.nl
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PhD student
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