Research projects HSRI
Our researchers share the goal to conduct excellent research and are strongly driven by scientific curiosity. In our research projects, we combine expertise and knowledge across departments to investigate complex societal problems in a more integral way.
Three cross cutting themes:
Our multi-disciplinary research is focused on three cross-cutting themes:
Adaptive Societies, Organizations, and Workers
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Values and Perceptions about COVID-19 Digital Monitoring Solutions: A Longitudinal Perspective [Seed Funding]
This project investigates the public support for monitoring technologies in the light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Understanding vaccination hesitancy by studying irregular individuals [PhD Project]
Dr. Florian van Leeuwen and his colleagues examine irregular individuals, that is, individuals who favor (or oppose) vaccination despite having traits and identities that make them likely to oppose (or favor) vaccination.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2024]
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The effect of stigma on working with victims of honor-related violence [Seed Funding]
Dr. van Osch and her colleagues investigate why and how an HRV stigma affects attitudes towards HRV victims, and the decision-making processes of professionals who assist these victims.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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Job Outcomes During the Transition to Remote Work [Seed Funding]
Researchers from Tilburg University and Eindhoven University are examining the longitudinal relationship between personality and job outcomes related to performance and worker well-being.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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Understanding physiological responses to daily acts of workplace exclusion [PhD Project]
This project focuses on studying (mal)adaptive physiological responses to subtle acts of workplace exclusion and developing behavioral interventions.
[Project duration: 2021 - 2025]
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Outsourced labor platforms and the Global South: working conditions and well-being [PhD Project]
This project connects platforms’ governance models, client firms’ behaviors and workers’ adaptive reactions to assess the working conditions and wellbeing of workers in the Global South.
[Project duration: 2021 - 2025]
Healthy Lifespan:
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Understanding the why in successful ageing among cancer survivors: Examining the role of inflammation and the kynurenine pathway [Seed Funding]
This project aims to identify networks of mutually interacting factors of successful ageing among cancer survivors and examine whether inflammation and imbalance of the kynurenine pathway are underlying mechanisms.
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Neurophysiological correlates of personality-cognition relations across the adult lifespan [Seed Funding]
Using electroencephalography, this project will investigate the neural correlates of the relationship between personality and cognition across the adult lifespan.
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Transition from University to Work: Understanding Personality Development [PhD Project]
The project team will conduct an intensive longitudinal study on environmental and individual factors and processes of personality development during the work transition.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2024]
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Who remains childless? [Seed Funding]
Dr. Ivanova and Dr. van Scheppingen combine insights from personality psychology and family sociology to elucidate why some individuals among a contemporary cohort of Dutch adults do not become parents.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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The transition to parenthood: individual variability in well-being [PhD Project]
The project’s overarching goal is to examine whether the transition to parenthood might have different consequences for different aspects of psychological well-being and for different individuals.
[Project duration: 2021 - 2025]
Personalized Prevention and Care:
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Fatigue and pain in lung and renal cell cancer patients [Seed Funding]
This project will investigate whether intensive monitoring of patients’ symptoms using a smartphone app could support personalized cancer care.
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The role of positive psychological constructs in cardiac patients’ health behaviour [Seed Funding]
This study will focus on the role of positive psychology constructs (e.g. optimism, positive affect, flexibility) in health behaviour.
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Personalized Cognitive Diagnostics for Early Detection of Dementia [PhD Project]
Dr. Ruth Mark and her colleagues hope to improve the early diagnosis of dementia.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2024]
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A lifestyle tool for health behaviours in Type 2 diabetes [Seed Funding]
Dr. Soedamah-Muthu and Dr. Mark aim to establish which factors are required to develop a lifestyle tool based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy principles.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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Cognitive rehabilitation therapy for patients with somatic symptom and related disorders [Seed Funding]
Dr. Lars de Vroege and Prof. Dr. Willem Kop will evaluate the added value of CRT compared to the standard-of-care treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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Patterns of fatigue in patients with benign and malignant brain tumors [Seed Funding]
This research project investigates latent patterns of fatigue in patients with brain tumors before start of treatment, and their relationship with disease and patient characteristics.
[Project duration: 2020 - 2021]
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Automated risk stratification for infectious complications in immunodeficiency [PhD project]
Using natural langue processing techniques, we will improve the timely detection of increased infectious risk in patients treated with immunomodulatory drugs.
[Project duration: 2021 - 2025]
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Life after Trauma [PhD Project]
The aim of this project is to increase the understanding of differences in patterns of physical, psychological and social recovery within and between trauma patients.
[Project duration: 2021 - 2025]