Activities HSRI
By fostering cross-departmental research, the Herbert Simon Research Institute (HSRI) contributes to advancing scientific knowledge on complex societal, organizational, and behavioral issues and challenges. Scientists from within and outside the Institute are welcome to join our Working Group Meetings and connect with our researchers. HSRI researchers can submit proposals for PhD positions and Seed Funding in our yearly calls.
Research Networks
At Herbert Simon Research Institute, we have several work groups where we exchange ideas and get to know each other. Do you organize a research network and would like to be listed here? Or do you wish to found a new research network that fits one of the three cross-cutting themes? Please contact Floortje Mols (for the theme "Personalized prevention and care"), Yvonne Brehmer (for the theme "Healthy lifespan"), or Sasa Batistič (for the theme "Adaptive societies, organizations, and workers").
Ageing Network – Tilburg University
We are a multidisciplinary group of researchers who are building a network for ageing research at Tilburg University. Our research focuses on healthy as well as pathological ageing from a holistic, longitudinal perspective considering the individuals' characteristics, and their social and physical environment including work as well as care contexts. We are specifically interested in risk and protective factors that account for between-person differences and within-person changes in cognition, well-being, and life-satisfaction in old age. Ultimately, our aim is to progress knowledge and improve the life situation for each and every person, physically or mentally healthy or challenged.
If you are interested, please contact Ruth Mark
Personalized Prevention and Care TESC
In 2019, the multidisciplinary TESC workgroup Personalized Prevention and Care was launched. The goal of this workgroup is to create a network of researchers interested in personalized health that make use of, or would like to make use of, intensive longitudinal data. The workgroup offers an opportunity to get to know each other, exchange knowledge, and explore and deepen the theme together.
If you are interested, please contact Floortje Mols.
Learn more about Personalized Prevention and Care TESC workgroup
HSRI Cross-Cutting Theme Day
Every year there is a HSRI Cross-cutting theme day on which recent research findings and ideas on the three cross-cutting research themes will be presented. This day will offer opportunities to HSRI members to share research ideas and findings, receive input, find colleagues for collaboration and to be inspired by the interdisciplinary research within HSRI.
Support for Internal HSRI Meetings
Around the year, HSRI researchers can apply for financial support for meetings that foster cross-departmental work within Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The meetings can also include people from outside the school. Please send an e-mail with a proposal to Floortje Mols (for the theme "Personalized prevention and care"), Yvonne Brehmer (for the theme "Healthy lifespan"), or Sasa Batistič (for the theme "Adaptive societies, organizations, and workers"). You will receive a final decision within 3 weeks.
The proposal should contain:
- The names and affiliations of the applicants
- The expected amount of attendees (internal and external)
- The requested budget (with explanation)
- A description of the added value of the proposed meeting for interdisciplinary collaboration within TSB
- In case budget for an external speaker is requested, please explain how the participation of this external speaker adds value to cross-departmental work within TSB.
PhD Project Calls
Once a year, there is a call for PhD projects, open for all HSRI researchers, to facilitate internal cross-departmental collaborations and inter-disciplinary research within HSRI. For further information regarding the application and evaluation procedure, please contact Yvonne Brehmer, Floortje Mols or Sasa Batistič.
Internal Seed Funding
Once a year, there is a Seed Funding call for cross-departmental research projects. This call is open for all HSRI researchers, including PhDs. Every HSRI researcher can submit only one project as main applicant and one as co-applicant. For further information regarding the application and evaluation procedure, please contact Yvonne Brehmer, Floortje Mols or Sasa Batistič.
Cross-cutting themes
The Herbert Simon Research Institute for Health, Well-being, and Adaptiveness is a research center devoted to carrying out excellent, state of the art research in order to contribute to healthy and resilient people. We have selected three themes, which involve the collaboration between various Departments and address actual themes in need of both fundamental and applied research.