HSRI: Cross-Cutting Themes
The increasing need for investigating complex societal problems in a more integral way requires expertise that crosses the boundaries of a specific discipline. We connect the expert knowledge, experience, and related research networks of all nine Departments within the Herbert Simon Research Institute to obtain interdisciplinary knowledge that will increase the well-being of individuals, teams, organizations, and society and their ability to adapt to a changing living and working environment.
HSRI researchers have knowledge on cognitive neuropsychology, medical and clinical psychology, developmental psychology, organizational psychology, human resource studies, social psychology, sociology and care and wellbeing.
Our ambition is to contribute to the solution to the most important problems our society is facing. By joining expertise from our different social and behavioral science disciplines we are much better able to do so.
- Jeroen Vermunt, Head of HSRI - Vice Dean of Research
Our interdisciplinary research is focused on three cross-cutting research themes, which address actual themes in need of both fundamental and applied interdisciplinary research.
Themes
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Adaptive Societies, Organizations and Workers
How do societies, organizations and individuals react and change in regard to challenges?
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Healthy Lifespan
How can we integrate biological, social, and psychological perspectives when investigating development over the lifespan?
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Personalized Prevention and Care
How can we integrate differences between individuals into health care?
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Meet Our HSRI PhD Students
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Ellen Boumans
PhD Student 2022Departments involved: Medical & Clinical Psychology; Human Resource Studies
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Lisette Sibald
PhD Student 2022PhD project: Prevention is Better Than Cure: Predicting the Onset of Postpartum Depression Using Early Warning Signals
Departments involved: Methodology & Statistics; Medical & Clinical Psychology; Tranzo
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Evgeniya Verdernikova
PhD Student 2022PhD project: The Emotions Within: Improving the Accuracy and Impact of Emotion Measurement in Well-Being Across the Lifespan
Departments involved: Developmental Psychology, Methodology & Statistics, and Social Psychology
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Ilayda Özoruç
PhD Student 2022PhD project: Going Against the Norm: Links Between Personality, Well-Being, and Deviating Family Trajectories in Young Adulthood
Departments involved: Developmental Psychology, Sociology, and Methodology & Statistics
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Wiebke Kantimm
PhD Student 2022PhD project: Towards Digitally Empowered Diabetes Clinics: How Healthcare Providers Shape the Adoption of New Technology
Departments involved: Organization Studies; Medical & Clinical Psychology
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Manon Enting
PhD Student 2021PhD project: Life After Trauma
Departments involved: Methodology & Statistics; Medical & Clinical Psychology; Tranzo; Human Resource Studies
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Amonette Campbell
PhD Student 2021PhD project: Outsourced Labor Platforms and the Global South: Working Conditions and Well-Being
Departments involved: Organization Studies; Human Resource Studies; Social Psychology
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Abbie Bailey
PhD Student 2021PhD project: Developing Workplace Interventions to Stimulate a Healthy Working Life for All
Departments involved: Human Resource Studies; Medical & Clinical Psychology
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Jamie Breukel
PhD Student 2021PhD project: Understanding Physiological Responses to Daily Acts of Workplace Exclusion
Departments involved: Developmental Psychology; Human Resource Studies; Organization Studies
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Ketaki Diwan
PhD Student 2020PhD project: Transition from University to Work: Understanding Personality Development
Departments involved: Developmental Psychology; Human Resource Studies
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Mitchell Matthijssen
PhD Student 2020PhD project: Understanding vaccination hesitancy by studying irregular individuals
Departments involved: Social Psychology, Sociology, Tranzo
Activities
- Once a year a PhD project call for HSRI researchers
- Once a year a call for HSRI internal seed funding
- Around the year the possibility to ask for money to support research meetings