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NWO rewards research into the impact of mother’s prenatal anxiety on the child
Dr. Marion van den Heuvel, who works at the department of Cognitive Neuropsychology (TSB), received an NWO Veni grant for her research on the effects of mother’s anxiety during pregnancy on mother-infant neural synchrony.
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More than € 650,000 for cancer and diabetes research
Hester Trompetter received a € 468,328 grant from KWF Kankerbestrijding (Alpe d'Huzes) for research into online psychotherapy for (former) cancer patients with neuropathic pain. Sabita Soedamah-Muthu received a grant of € 200,000 from the Dutch Dairy Organization for research on dairy consumption and incident prediabetes. Both researchers are members of the department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (TSB).
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Digital Confession Box at Lowlands festival
Why should we share our feelings or secrets with a chatbot? And would we perhaps share more intimate secrets with a chatbot than we would with a human interlocutor? This is investigated by Emmelyn Croes, Marjolijn Antheunis, Chris van der Lee, and Jan de Wit, from the Department of Communication and Cognition (TSHD) at Tilburg University. The way they are going to go about this is by conducting an experiment at Lowlands called ‘digital confession box’, scheduled from August 16 through August 18.
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#5 worldwide in Business Administration – Shanghai Ranking 2019
Tilburg University maintains its position among the best universities in the world for Business Administration (5), Finance (12), and Management (27). In addition, we have reached our highest ranking yet for Law, Psychology, Sociology, and Public Administration (51-75 range). We are proud of the contributions all our academics are making by conducting relevant and important research and incorporating this in their courses.
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Symposium on mayors and the rule of law well-attended
Wim van de Donk, the King’s Commissioner in Brabant, is very concerned about the credibility of the the rule of law in our country. He voiced his concern on Friday, June 21, at the well-attended symposium ‘De burgemeester: vriend of vijand van de rechtsstaat?’ (‘Mayors, friends or enemies of the rule of law?’), organized by Niels Karsten (Public Law & Governance).
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Fruitful visit Chinese delegation Zhejiang University
Together with their Dutch counterparts, the Chinese academics identified several themes for research collaboration, such as e-commerce, big data in finance and the digital transformation of organizations.
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Unemployment during the Great Recession feeds left-wing populism; unauthorized immigration flows feed right-wing populism
In the past decade, there has been a great rise in populism in many western democracies. This has led to the emergence of radical and populist politicians. In his PhD research, Shuai Chen investigats the influence of recent unemployment during the Great Recession and the vast influx of unauthorized immigrants on the growth of populism. He shows there is a difference between the populism caused by economic factors and the populism caused by cultural factors.
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Call for nominations for the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award
The Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR) and Tilburg Law School are calling for Dutch and Flemish university faculties to submit nominations for the Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award.
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Increase quality of care with population management
Population management (PM), the use of data for a specific group, is increasingly being used to clarify problems in healthcare. In this way, poor-scoring healthcare providers can be identified and regional differences can be explained. Roy Hendrikx analysed data from dozens of PM initiatives in the US, the UK and the Netherlands (such as Zorgkaart Nederland). Conclusion: PM initiatives do not always achieve their goals. On Friday 21 June he will defend his dissertation ‘Measuring Populations, in search of methods to evaluate health and experienced quality of care’ at Tilburg University.
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First-Ever SDG Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities
Recently, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which co-produces the Sustainable Development Report (formerly SDG Index and Dashboards), in partnership with the Brabant Center for Sustainable Development (Telos, Tilburg University), released the first-ever SDG Index and Dashboards Report for European Cities.
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Eijffinger: does populism threaten the independence of the ECB?
This week, the annual ECB Forum was held in Sintra, Portugal, with all the leaders of the international banking world. Among them was Tilburg's professor of Financial Economics, Sylvester Eijffinger. Eijffinger asked the panel, including Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, whether the rise of populism in Europe poses a threat to the independence of the European Central Bank (ECB).
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New values research in the Netherlands: More tolerance, more pride, and different kinds of religiosity
The Dutch have become more tolerant with regard to sexual-ethical aspects of life, are more proud of their Dutch citizenship, have more faith in people and believe less in God. Young people who do not consider themselves religious turn out to be no less social than religious youngsters.
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Education Minister awards grant to Tilburg University Junior
The Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, has approved a grant application for the Students4Students project of Tilburg University Junior (Science Hub).
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Visit to Minister van Engelshoven as part of the NWA Start Impulse
On Monday, June 3, Ton Wilthagen visited Minister van Engelshoven (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science) together with a delegation from JOIN (young people in a resilient society) and soceital partners.
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TILT participates in large project on Internet of Things Dutch National Research Agenda
TILT (Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society) participates in the INTERSECT project about the Internet of Things which was awarded over 8 million euros by NWO in the context of the Dutch National Research Agenda.
