For best experience please turn on javascript and use a modern browser!
You are using a browser that is no longer supported by Microsoft. Please upgrade your browser. The site may not present itself correctly if you continue browsing.
An overview of all 2025 dissertations by discipline, in chronological order
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE

    Navigating a complex landscape: Parental political socialization in the Netherlands

    Political trust: Pillar or peril for democracy: Empirical tests of the consequences of political trust on individuals' attitudes and behaviors

    Claiming and contesting postcolonial citizenship: Political struggles over the rights and belonging of Surinamese-Dutch citizens

    Mind the gap! Inequalities in democratic support among adolescents

    Austerity and trust in EU institutions: Examining the impact of austerity measures on public trust

    A transnational social contract: How a plurality of actors shape the rights of Indian low-wage labor emigrants along the India-Gulf Cooperation Council migration corridor

    • Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
    • PhD candidate: Burmeister Rudolph, M. E.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/3a087f11-2069-4201-b4e7-f550649b075f
    • Supervisors/Advisors: de Goede, M. (Supervisor), Ersanilli, E. F. (Co-supervisor) & Vigneswaran, D. V. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 16 May 2025

    De ban van bestuur: Een analyse van de werking van macht bij beleidskeuzen van 1978 tot 2018 over de inrichting van het bestuur van Amsterdam

    Personal institutions, political lives: Diversity without inclusion in Dutch politics

    The information politics of peace and conflict NGOs: Reporting on Nepal's Tarai-Madhes region

    Fight the good fight! How conflict matters for supervisory boards in educational programme group

    Minoritized citizens' perspectives on political representation

    Google's expansion into security: Platforms, infrastructure, (in)visibility

    Missing links within the apparel supply chain

    Violence for control: Explaining violent local elections in India

    Democracy and political participation in war-affected Colombia

  • SOCIOLOGY

    Rhythms of class: Socio-economic disparities and peer dynamics in secondary school choice 

    Policing in action: An interaction-ethological study of conflicts, violence and de-escalation 

    Out of the shadows: Bystander actions in gendered violence in public and private spaces 

    (Un)seen: Unravelling variety in caregivers’ views on sharing care 

    Creating violent conflict: An ethnography about relationships, culture, and emotions in conflict situations among Dutch youths 

    A computational social science that makes sense: Studying the complex dynamics of social interaction and collective meaning-making 

    Building communicative spaces with children in paediatric obesity care and research: The importance of children's perspectives in integrated care during and after the COVID-19 pandemic  

    • Programme group: Political Sociology  
    • PhD candidate: Concincion, S. J. L. 
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/153a2606-7374-4456-9563-fe47f53dd8f1 
    • Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy 
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Verhoeff, A. P. (Supervisor), Dedding, C. W. M. (Supervisor) & van Houtum, L. (Co-supervisor) 
    • Award date: 25 Apr 2025

    Fields of growth: Perspectives of coaches and youth on development through sport 

    Middle-class lifestyles in Istanbul: Class, politics and religion 

  • ANTHROPOLOGY

    Parenting in adversity: An examination of interventions and mechanisms that support parents of young children in South Africa at the family, community, and policy level 

    Who is responsible for achieving HIV epidemic control? Responses to the HIV ‘treat all’ guideline recommendation among health systems actors in South Africa 

    The allure of white bodies: Race, capital, and nationhood in contemporary China 

    Running for maendeleo: Friendship, hope, and respectability among Kenyan distance runners in Japan 

    La police dans la colonie du Sénégal de 1789 à 1959 

    Politics and experiences of permanent temporariness of refugees in Indonesia 

    "The brand...? White people...": Whiteness in the valuation of foreign English teachers in China 

    A tendrel logic: Growing humans otherwise during the golden 1000 days in Bhutan 

    Living the postcolony: Egyptian (be)longings in Paris 

    From detection to utilisation: Overcoming demand-side barriers to mental healthcare for children and adolescents in low- and middle-income countries 

    Precarious motherhood: Maternal health/care and the state in Los Angeles, USA 

    What you water, grows: Development and evaluation of a community-led approach to enhance the protection of children 

    Let it sink or let it float: Law and practices of coastal zone management in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia 

    Contraceptive contestations: Digital contraceptive practices and the renegotiation of knowing and caring in reproductive health 

    • Programme group: Health, Care and the Body 
    • PhD candidate: Algera, E. M. 
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/70fdd9ff-9580-4c17-9717-f2d4ec454c6f 
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Pols, A. J. (Supervisor), Ravesloot, J. H. (Supervisor), Gerrits, G. J. E. (Co-supervisor) & Keestra, M. (Co-supervisor) 
    • Award date: 24 Nov 2025

    On methods, symptoms and subjects: A patchwork ethnography on the production of vaccine side effects 

  • GPIO (Geography, Planning and International Development Studies)

    Ageing in place in deprived urban neighbourhoods: Experiences of multiple disadvantage and social exclusion among older migrants and native Dutch older adults living in Amsterdam 

    The cultural and creative sector through a global production network lens: An analysis of production networks in the architecture, visual arts, festival and performing arts industries 

    Pathways of entrepreneurial urban governance: Spatial dynamics and community politics in Istanbul's regeneration 

    Housing inequality in young adulthood 

    The social and political life of waterways: Everyday practices of infrastructure in Accra, Ghana 

    Fishing for autonomy: The making of Indian fisheries science 

    Family and Supported Transitions into homeownership in urban China 

    Volatile city life: Knowing-and-making coastal subsidence in Semarang