Dissertations Humanities and Digital Sciences
The doctoral research within TSHD covers a wide range of topics. Below you can find an overview of the dissertations by our PhD candidates ordered by calendar year. If you are looking for a specific author or dissertation title, please refer to the Pure Research Portal.
2023
- Tom Bootsma ▪ November 15, 2023
Using the patient perspective to personalize psycho-oncological care for chronic cancer-related fatigue - Feiyang Tian ▪ October 4, 2023
Competition and Compromise of Chineses in a Globalizing City: An Emerging Common Los Angeles Chinese - George Aalbers ▪ Juli 4, 2023
Digital Traces of the Mind: Using Smartphones to Capture Signals of Well-Being in Individuals - Peter Blomsma ▪ Juni 20, 2023
Building Embodied Conversational Agents: Observations on human nonverbal behaviour as a resource for the development of artificial characters - Farah Nuri Izza ▪ Juni 14, 2023
Reciting the Qur’an in the life cycle, calendrical, and occasional rituals. The Aisyiyah and Muslimat NU women: Their position of religious authority, agency, and role within the patriarchal organization - Abdul Aziz ▪ April 5, 2023
Constructing Ideological Authority: A Study on the Radical and Moderate Muslim Middle Classes in the Contemporary Politics of Indonesian Islam - Di Jin ▪ March 8, 2023
‘Dare to be Different’: Sociolinguistic Perspective on Diasporic Chinese Protestant Ministries of Chinese International Students in the Netherlands in the 2010s - Mariana Dias Da Silva-van Riel ▪ February 8, 2023
Grounded or in flight? What our bodies can tell us about the whereabouts of our thoughts - Chris Emmery ▪ January 13, 2023
User-Centered Security in Natural Language Processing - Sandra Loevenich ▪ January 10, 2023
Kulturunterschiede in der Unterrichtspraxis. Zum praktischen professionellen Wissen von Fremdsprachenlehrern und Fremdsprachenlehrerinnen in den Niederlanden und Deutschland
2022
- Antonio Sforna ▪ December 13, 2022
Diffracting the Digital Border: Migration, Aesthetics and Techno-Resistance - Mona Farrag Mahmoud Attwa ▪ December 12, 2022
Arabic and Globalization: Understanding the Arab Voice - Annemarie Nanne ▪ December 2, 2022
Social Drivers of Visual Brand-Related User Generated Content: Creation, Content, and Consequences - Chris van der Lee ▪ September 25, 2022
Next Steps in Data-to-Text Generation: Towards Better Data, Models, and Evaluation - Paris Mavromoustakos Blom ▪ September 21, 2022
Player Affect Modelling and Video Game Personalisation - Alexandra Sierra Rativa ▪ September 16, 2022
Virtual Character Design and its potential to foster Empathy, Immersion, and 21st Century Learning Skills in Video Games and Virtual Reality Simulations - Ruben Vromans ▪ July 8, 2022
Communicating Personalized Risks to Patients with Cancer: A Multi-Method Approach - Sven Storms ▪ May 4, 2022
The Buridan-Volpin Derivation System: Properties and Justification - Mirjam de Haas ▪ April 20, 2022
Staying Engaged in Child-Robot Interaction: A Quantitative Approach to Studying Preschoolers’ Engagement with Robots and Tasks During Second-Language Tutoring - Malgorzata Szabla ▪ March 4, 2022
Superdiversity, Diaspora and Chronotopic Analysis in the Online-offline Nexus: A case study on the Polish diaspora in the Low Countries - Janneke van der Loo ▪ February 23, 2022
Mastering The Art of Academic Writing: Comparing the Effectiveness of Observational Learning and Learning by Doing - Jan de Wit ▪ January 28, 2022
I Like the Way You Move: Robots that Gesture, and Their Potential as Second Language Tutors for Children
2021
- Nanny Kuijsters-Timmers ▪ December 21, 2021
Virtual community building in de georganiseerde sport. Gebruik van sociaalnetwerksites en de uitwerking op het clubgevoel van leden van sportverenigingen - Charlotte Out ▪ December 16, 2021
Does Emotion Shape Language? Studies on the Influence of Affective State on Interactive Language Production - Deborah de Koning ▪ December 15, 2021
The Many Faces of Ravana. Ravanisation: The Revitalisation of Ravana among Sinhalese Buddhists in Post-War Sri Lanka - Rawan Ghazzawi ▪ December 13, 2021
Individual and Contextual Determinants of Job Crafting in Healthcare Professions - Selam Kidane ▪ November 5, 2021
Trauma, Collective Trauma and Refugee Trajectories in the Digital Era: Development of the Trauma Recovery Understanding Self-Help Therapy (TRUST) - Tess van der Zanden ▪ October 22, 2021
Language Use and Impression Formation: The Effects of Linguistic Cues in Online Dating Profiles - Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst ▪ October 20, 2021
Time to Say Goodbye? A Study on Music, Ritual and Death in the Netherlands - Ayşe Şafak ▪ September 21, 2021
Acculturation of Syrian Refugees in Turkey and the Netherlands: From a Psychological Perspective - Yaseer Nouzzadeh Ravari ▪ June 22, 2021
Player Behavior Modeling in Video Games - Yueqiao Han ▪ June 18, 2021
Chinese Tones: Can You Listen with Your Eyes? The Influence of Visual Information on Auditory Perception of Chinese Tones - Nadine Braun ▪ March 29, 2021
Affective Words and the Company They Keep: Investigating the Interplay of Emotion and Language - Martin Kurani ▪ March 9, 2021
"Is the Voice of a Woman Shameful?" A Linguistic Anthropological Study of the Multinormativity of Jordan's Society - Peter Szabo ▪ February 26, 2021
Babel Debates: An Ethnographic Language Policy Study of EU Multilingualism in the European Parliament - Nanke Dokter ▪ January 27, 2021
Stimuleren van schoolse taalvaardigheid bij rekenen - Christine Cook ▪ January 22, 2021
Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Trolls: An Interdisiplinary Exploration of the Who's, What's, and Why's of Trolling in Online Games
2020
- Jolanda Asmoredjo ▪ December 22, 2020
Change Through Exchange: Exploring the Role of International Exchange in Organisational Development of Care Organisations - Ondrej Pronchazka ▪ December 7, 2020
Negotiating Ludic Normativity in Facebook Meme Pages - Joris Brouwers ▪ December 1, 2020
De hoofddoek in de krant: Een inhoudsanalytisch onderzoek naar de berichtgeving over de islamitische hoofddoek in vijf Nederlandse dagbladen (2000-2014) - Abellia Wardani ▪ November 24, 2020
"It was kind of safe": The Role of the Market in the Everyday Peacebuilding Processes during the Ambon Conflicts - Debby Damen ▪ November 4, 2020
Taking Perspective in Communication: Exploring What it Takes to Change Perspectives - Rianne Conijn ▪ October 16, 2020
The Keys to Writing: A Writing Analytics Approach to Studying Writing Processes Using Keystroke Logging - Angelica Tinga ▪ September 16, 2020
Assessment of Learning Through Non-Invasive Neurophysiological Measures - Budi Rahman Hakim ▪ September 8, 2020
Actualization of Neo-Sufism: A Case Study of the Tariqa Qadiriyya Naqshabandiyya Pondok Pesantren Suryalaya - LU Ying ▪ August 19, 2020
Biaoqing on Chinese Social Media: Practices, Products, Communities and Markets in a Knowledge Economy - Betty Tjipta Sari ▪ June 16, 2020
Contextualization of the Role of Bilingualism and Cultural Maintenance Behavior for Well-Being, Sociocultural Adjustment, and Ethnic Identity Among Diverse Ethnic Groups in Indonesia - Alain Hong ▪ June 3, 2020
Women in the Lead: Gender, Leadership Emergence, and Negotiation Behavior from a Social Role Perspective - Silvia Ivani ▪ May 26, 2020
Values in Science: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive values in Evolutionary Psychology - Raymond Mubaya ▪ March 6, 2020
[-In]tangible Heritage, Humans and the Environment: An Ethnographic Account of the Conservation of Chingoma Falls in South-eastern Zimbabwe - Richard Manley-Tannis ▪ February 17, 2020
From Suspicion to Reparation through a Relational Practical Theology: Transforming the United Church of Canada - Véronique Verhagen ▪ January 10, 2020
Illuminating Variation: Individual Differences in Entrenchment of Multi-Word Units - Huub Brouwer ▪ January 7, 2020
Desert, Luck, and Justice
2019
- Phoebe Mui ▪ December 18, 2019
The Many Faces of Smiling: Social and Cultural Factors in the Display and Perception of Smiles - Tjerk de Blok ▪ December 18, 2019
Van je woorden kun je leren: Een onderzoek naar leerbelemmerend communiceren in managementteams - Kitty Leuverink ▪ November 26, 2019
Teacher Research in Secondary Education: An Empirical Study into Teacher Research as a Means for Professional Development and School Development - Akos Kádár ▪ November 13, 2019
Learning Visually Grounded and Multilingual Representations - Leone Jackson ▪ September 4, 2019
Diversity Management in the New South Africa: An Acculturation Approach - Irem Bezcioglu-Göktolga ▪ September 3, 2019
Family Language Policy among Second-Generation Turkish Families in the Netherlands - Colin Elliot ▪ June 28, 2019
On De Finetti's Philosophy of Probability - Gerrie Strik ▪ June 26, 2019
Een plantaardig ademen: Nieuw materialisme in het vroege oeuvre van Hella S. Haasse - Alessandra Marra ▪ May 20, 2019
Deontic Modality in Rationality and Reasoning - Gözde Demirel ▪ May 3, 2019
Reading Proficiency and Acculturation Orientations of Turkish Bilingual Students in the Netherlands, Germany and France - Peter J. Verhagen ▪ April 17, 2019
Psychiatry and Religion: Controversies and Consensus: A Matter of Attitude - Esin Aksay Akseze ▪ February 27, 2019
Turkish Outbound Exchange Students' Intercultural Competencies at Different Stages of the International Sojourn - Antony Ong'ayo ▪ February 6, 2019
Diaspora Organisations, Transnational Practices and Development: Ghanaians in the Netherlands