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Politics - Research Management - 01.03.2023

Politics - Social Sciences - 01.03.2023
Data mining: Quietly changing our social contract
College selection, highlighted content on social networks, justice and predictive medicine, autonomous vehicles, crowd monitoring.

Environment - Politics - 27.02.2023
Energy transition: Bodies of water in conflict between protection and use
Energy transition: Bodies of water in conflict between protection and use
The looming energy crisis has increased the pressure to push ahead with the energy transition in Switzerland.

Social Sciences - Politics - 15.02.2023

Environment - Politics - 15.02.2023
Be the Change: Studying for a Better and More Sustainable Tomorrow
Be the Change: Studying for a Better and More Sustainable Tomorrow
The interdisciplinary MSc programme Environmental Technology & International Affairs is a joint programme of the Diplomatische Akademie Wien and TU Wien and offers education in technical and international environmental policy.

Environment - Politics - 14.02.2023

Politics - Social Sciences - 14.02.2023
Volunteers drive social change in wartime Ukraine
Volunteers drive social change in wartime Ukraine
A year into Russia's full-scale invasion, a new study by Dr Olga Boichak has found ordinary citizens who volunteer their time and resources can bring about social and political change.

Politics - Health - 13.02.2023
Freie Universität Researchers Participate in Europe-Wide Study on Legitimacy of the Measures Taken during the Covid-19 Crisis
Together with ten other research institutes, the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin is investigating crisis governance in Europe in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

Politics - 07.02.2023
Opinion: Turkey-Syria earthquake - how disaster diplomacy can bring warring countries together
Opinion: Turkey-Syria earthquake - how disaster diplomacy can bring warring countries together
Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction) describes in The Conversation how warring countries can put aside their differences to save lives when a disaster, like the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake, strikes a region beset by conflict.

Politics - Health - 06.02.2023

Politics - 02.02.2023
Outcomes of emergency debate on increase in international students
An emergency debate was held the day before yesterday with the education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf on the influx of international students at Dutch higher education institutions.

Politics - 02.02.2023

Politics - Economics - 31.01.2023
Conflicts of interest in UK food regulation ’puts public health at risk’
Conflicts of interest in UK food regulation "puts public health at risk" - new research Research finds substantial conflicts of interest in the bodies advising the Department for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) or the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Recommends that commercial conflicts of interest should no longer be allowed to participate in UK food policymaking Food regulatory institutions in the UK should have robust mechanisms for addressing commercial conflicts of interest, argues a new research paper.

History / Archeology - Politics - 25.01.2023

Social Sciences - Politics - 25.01.2023
University of Toronto research 'collaboratory' uses global lens to pursue community-based Indigenous research
University of Toronto research ’collaboratory’ uses global lens to pursue community-based Indigenous research
Indigenous Peoples all over the world have endured a common history. And, as  Uahikea Maile  notes, the experience of "colonial dispossession, territorial enclosure and the subsequent creation of nation states" is not unique to North America.

Politics - 24.01.2023
Q and A with the experts: NATO’s expanding support to Ukraine
What risks do NATO members take in increasing military assistance to Ukraine? While continuing to avoid direct engagement in Russia's war on Ukraine, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies have dramatically expanded their military assistance.

Politics - Psychology - 24.01.2023
Daily dose of politics leads to stress - but avoiding it can hinder civic engagement
From 24-hour news cycles to social media posts from your angry uncle, it's almost impossible not to get a daily dose of politics.

Politics - 23.01.2023
Research wanted for citizen science project at University Museum Utrecht
Research wanted for citizen science project at University Museum Utrecht
Involve families in the data collection of your research The renovated Utrecht University Museum (UMU) will open its doors to the public in September 2023.

Politics - Campus - 18.01.2023

Environment - Politics - 17.01.2023

Politics - Social Sciences - 10.01.2023

Politics - 04.01.2023
Analysis: Putin's plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed
Analysis: Putin’s plan to stop Ukraine turning to the west has failed
Professor Kristin Bakke (UCL Political Science) and her colleagues report in The Conversation the results of their survey, finding that support of NATO and the west was at an all-time high amongst Ukrainians since the start of the conflict.

Politics - Social Sciences - 22.12.2022
NWA grant for research on willingness to fight for one’s country
Political scientist Michal Onderco, Erasmus University Rotterdam, together with his colleague Wolfgang Wagner of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a grant for their research project 'Towards a new belligerency' Explaining changing attitudes on the willingness to fight for one's country'.

Politics - 15.12.2022
Beneficial arrangements in parliament - How vested interests shape Swiss politics
Beneficial arrangements in parliament - How vested interests shape Swiss politics
Directors, trustees, Executive Board members: members of Switzerland's Federal Parliament often have other duties in addition to their political office and occupation. Researchers in political science at the University of Basel have investigated how these alliances affect political developments. The interest group ties of politicians are a popular topic for discussion.

Politics - Event - 13.12.2022
Energy, war, and the crisis in Ukraine
An expert panel examines the implications of energy use and energy policy during Russia's invasion.

Politics - Social Sciences - 09.12.2022
Education magnifies social and gender gaps in political engagement
Education magnifies social and gender gaps in political engagement
Young people need better access to civic activities in schools to address social and gender gaps in political engagement that emerge during adolescence, according to a new report by UCL, University of Roehampton and University of Southampton researchers.