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You are invited to participate in workshops on Teaching Leadership for Professionals. On 26 and 27 October, the UG hosts the workshops as part of our membership of the 4TU+.CEE, Center for Engineering Education.

Summer opening hours UB 2026

From Monday 5 to Friday 9 October, the UG celebrates Diversity Week. Throughout the week, students and staff are invited to take part in various activities to learn and share about all kinds of aspects of diversity that can be found within our academic community.

The University of Groningen (UG) will realise a new Interfaculty Learning Center in building 5113 (Nijenborgh 4) on the Zernike Campus. Last week, the design by Benthem Crouwel Architects and Nieuwe Architecten was finalized.

Female and queer conspiracy theorists are often overlooked in the media and in research. This is unjustified, according to researcher Hanne Nijtmans, as they approach the subject from a completely different angle. For women and queer individuals, the motivation often stems from a desire to care: they want to protect those they are connected to from harm.

Quota-based publishing agreements: 2026 caps expected to be reached for Springer, Taylor & Francis, Oxford University Press, LWW and Emerald

Our guest this episode is Hanne Nijtmans. She is a PhD candidate and is researching conspiracy theories. Hosts Wim Brons and Hanna van Loo interview her about, among other things, the appeal of conspiracy thoeries, how a conspiracy theory originates, and what the common elements of conspiracy theories are. They also delve deeper into her dissertation: "Conspiracy Anxiety: Gender, Labor, and the Paranoid Style in American Podcasts." In it, Hanne Nijtmans examines what changes when a conspiracy theorists is not a (heterosexual, cisgennder, white) man, but a woman and/or a queer person.

In October 2025, the University of Groningen (UG) launched the transcription tool Whisper, which converts audio recordings into text. More than 1,000 UG staff and students are now using the free AI transcription tool. This rapid growth demonstrates that...

The Dutch infrastructure is showing its age: many bridges, viaducts and roads are in need of maintenance or replacement. But where to start? University of Groningen researcher and JTS Scholar Bahar Haghighat is developing small-scale, autonomous robots that move across steel structures as a swarm and carry out detailed inspections.