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Inequality in science funding
24 Apr 2018
New research shows that winners of a large research grant programme in the Netherlands have a 2.5 times greater chance of obtaining a follow-up grant than nonwinners. The research, which focused on NWO Vidi Grants, ...
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ERC Advanced Grants awarded to Hal Caswell and Dennis Rodgers
10 Apr 2018
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Advanced Grants to UvA professors Hal Caswell and Dennis Rodgers. The grants, totalling 1.2 million euros and 2.5 million euros respectively, are awarded on ...
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ICS PhD positions for highly qualified graduates
5 Apr 2018
The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology ICS offers fully funded PhD positions for a variety of projects.
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Registration open for AMCIS Educational Inequality Conference (July 5-6)
26 Mar 2018
With this academic conference on 5 and 6 July 2018, AMCIS aims to bring together researchers working on educational inequalities by socioeconomic background, ethnic background and/or gender, from various disciplines, ...
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Great Thinkers on YouTube-Ewald Engelen presenting the work of Karl Marx
8 Mar 2018
Financial Geographer Ewald Engelen traces the renewed relevance of the writings of Karl Marx. He will also discuss what Marx failed to tell us.
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UvA subjects ranked highly in latest QS Rankings
28 Feb 2018
Several subject areas at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have a high ranking in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. Communication & Media Studies is ranked the best in the world (up from 2nd spot ...
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Henny Bos, professor of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Families and Youth
28 Feb 2018
Dr H.M.W. Bos (1963) has been appointed professor of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Families and Youth at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros awarded to eleven UvA and AMC-UvA researchers
23 Feb 2018
Eleven researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Academic Medical Center (AMC) have each received a Vici grant worth 1.5 million euros to conduct research over the coming five years. Vici, which is ...
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New data yields deeper understanding of poverty in India
23 Jan 2018
A new international study led by UvA researchers Peter Sloot and Michael Lees has yielded extensive data on slums in Bangalore and provides a detailed insight into the problem of poverty in India. The highly granular ...
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'I am not a spy!'
9 Jan 2018
Through an Open Access book and comic strip series UvA political scientists share their fieldwork experiences in authoritarian contexts. They offer their insights into this particularly challenging area of field ...
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Olav Velthuis, professor of Sociology
22 Nov 2017
Dr O.J.M. Velthuis (1972) has been appointed professor of Sociology, especially economic life and culture, at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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Solving problems in social groups
30 Oct 2017
People often face shared problems, ranging from finding resources to avoiding external threats. Would it be possible for individuals to interact and be more accurate than independent individuals? In a Letter in the ...
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The future of craftmanship (Dutch only)
12 Oct 2017
Specialist professionals have better job opportunities than highly trained professionals.
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Jan Willem Duyvendak new director of NIAS-KNAW
6 Oct 2017
Jan Willem Duyvendak will become the new director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) on 1 January 2018. Duyvendak will combine his work as Professor of ...
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Pictures Memorial Symposium Jaap Dronkers
1 Oct 2017
On September 8, AMCIS organized a special memorial symposium in the University Library of Amsterdam in memory of Jaap Dronkers, Professor of Sociology, who died in 2016.
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Siblings divorce increases the risk of divorce
29 Sept 2017
Parental divorce has repeatedly been shown to increase the risk of divorce for offspring. Research on the influence of other social ties is however scarce. New published research in 'Advances in Life Course Research' ...
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New series of AMCIS Seminars
13 Sept 2017
In fall 2017, AMCIS will organize a seminar series with international scholars who work on various topics related to inequality. The presenters will talk about a recent (empirical) research project that they are ...
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Social Scientists and artists worked together to create the comic Beauty
28 July 2017
Imagine a corporate group working hard for setting the next trends for the modelling industry, add a group of angry, anti-system students who have decided to change the way the industry is oppressing us with beauty ...
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Seventeen UvA and AMC-UvA researchers awarded Veni grants
28 July 2017
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants worth up to €250,000 to 17 UvA and AMC-UvA researchers who recently obtained their doctorate. The grants give promising young ...
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New project: Critical Life Events and the Dynamics of Inequality: Risk, Vulnerability, and Cumulative Disadvantage
30 June 2017
A research consortium led by Thomas Leopold, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and member of the AISSR programme group Institutions, Inequalities, and Life Courses, has been awarded € ...
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