Three Mosaic 2.0 grants allocated to Utrecht researchers

Kate Avis (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences), Jeffrie Quarsie (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) and Lorelie Tummers each receive a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship programme by NWO. The PhD scholarship programme is aimed at the group of graduates with a migration background from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Turkey, as well as natives of North America and Oceania. The aim of the programme is to promote an inclusive working environment within Dutch knowledge institutions. Utrecht projects and laureates. An Exploration into Stage Models: Towards an Empirically-based Understanding of Grief. Worldwide, grief counsellors, bereaved persons, and those close to them often adhere to stage models of grief, which conceptualize healthy grieving as the passing through of sequential stages. However, there is a striking lack of empirical support for such models, causing some clinicians and scholars to warn against their potential harmful effects.