(In)Equality

How do we ensure equal opportunities in society? Researchers in the Social & Behavioural Sciences study this on a daily basis. For example, they investigate equal opportunities in the housing market, the job market, and in education. They also study equal participation in democracy. Get to know our research and our researchers.

Obtaining your doctorate at 82: Joke Swiebel has been investigating gay politics for 60 years

Discover the remarkable journey of Joke Swiebel, an 82-year-old researcher, as she defends her groundbreaking thesis on gay politics in the Netherlands spanning six decades.
Negative self-views contribute to achievement inequality

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds often have negative views of their academic abilities. New research shows that these self-views emerge, in part, because of denigrating messages about their intellectual ability.
Wage inequality between organisations is growing

To understand wage inequality the focus has long been on occupations. But the eye increasingly turns to organisations. Comparable jobs do not all earn the same across organisations. And this form of inequality is growing
Social media and the knowledge gap

Differences between citizens in terms of knowledge levels, and the resulting knowledge gap, have long been a topic of interest for scholars. Communication scientists investigated if social media could narrow this gap.

(In)Equality

Obtaining your doctorate at 82: Joke Swiebel has been investigating gay politics for 60 years

Negative self-views contribute to achievement inequality

Wage inequality between organisations is growing

Social media and the knowledge gap

What pupils learn outside of school can enhance lessons

Helping with schoolwork: when do parents feel capable of doing this?

Knowledge and expectations of parents contribute to inequality in education

Views on globalisation shaped less by education than we tend to think

Women’s authority jobs differ both in tasks and quality

What impact does the changing labour market have on specialists?

How can we break the racial bias in the labour market?

Social media polarize politics for a different reason than you might think

There is a rising global elite, but (yet) without a common goal

What role do gender stereotypes play during elections?

‘Not nearly enough women in politics in the Netherlands’

How middle-class cities emerged under social democratic rule

Why family, housing and inequality are so connected

The richest people don't turn out to be the smartest

Categorisation of refugees leads to new inequalities

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Citizens, Society and Artificial Intelligence (CiSAI)

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Education and Parenting

Urbanisation and Mobility

(In)Equality

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