Theses: Recent submissions
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Morfosyntactische verwerkingspatronen in het Nederlands: Zinsverwerking van een- en meertalige kinderen met en zonder TOS
(2025)Steeds meer onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat het taalverwerkingsvermogen van meertalige kinderen met een typische taalontwikkeling niet afwijkt van dat van eentalige kinderen met een typische taalontwikkeling, ondanks dat ... -
Mythen aan de Macht: Waarom de mythes van Nuchter en Polderend Nederland zo hardnekkig zijn (en blijven)
(2025)Historici falen te verklaren waarom mythes voort kunnen leven in rationeel ogende democratieën. Toch is het relevant om te weten hoe het kan dat mythes – die inherent de waarheid verdraaien – nog van grote invloed zijn op ... -
Virtually Social: A sociocultural approach to collaborative music-making through TikTok Duets
(2025)Digital content creation platforms have created environments where creative and social processes are deeply intertwined. Collaborative music-making through TikTok Duets exemplifies this convergence: the creative act itself ... -
Grandma Knows Best: The Epistemology of Women's Folk Beliefs and Practices
(2025)This project discusses the relation between women's folk beliefs and practices and knowledge. In particular, the project presents the view that, while these practices and beliefs have been often considered untrustworthy ... -
Narrating Irish Identity and Intimacy: Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) and Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018)
(2025)This thesis explores how Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) and Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018) represent Irish identity and emotional intimacy. Although Keegan and Rooney differ in style, setting, and tone, ... -
SINFUL STIGMA: THE EFFECT OF STIGMA ON CANNABIS INITIATION, USE AND SEEKING TREATMENT - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
(2025)Introduction: The use of recreational cannabis worldwide continues to rise globally, and it is currently the most commonly used drug, outside alcohol and tobacco. Despite the growing use of cannabis and the increase in ... -
Being Seen and Valued: The Recognition of Informal Caregivers in The Dutch Context
(2025)Background: One in three Dutch people provides care to someone from their direct social environment with an illness or disability. One in ten of those informal caregivers feels overburdened. While the recognition of informal ... -
Exploring Multiple Minority Stress: The Role of Peer Victimisation and Migration Background in the Mental Health of Same-sex Attracted Adolescents in the Netherlands
(2025)Sexually diverse adolescents experience more mental health problems than their heterosexual peers. In a representative cross-sectional sample of Dutch adolescents, we examined whether peer victimisation explains (i.e., ... -
Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators: Investigating experiences with financial support of primary caregivers of children with a disability and low income for sports participation
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op ervaringen van gezinnen met laag inkomen en een kind met een beperking met het aanvragen van en gebruikmaken van financiële regelingen voor sport. Deze regelingen zijn vaak gericht op alle ... -
RURAL DRAMATURGY: SITE-SPECIFICITY, RURAL CONTEXT, AND STRUCTURE OF FEELING - The development of a theoretical framework for the analysis of rural dramaturgies
(2025)This thesis explores what rural dramaturgies could entail through an analysis of three site-specific Dutch performances: Hjir Ha Ik West (2019), Onze Grond (2021), and Huilende Bruiden (2021). These works, situated in rural ... -
Part-time work: Paradise or Purgatory? Income Satisfaction and Gender as Moderators in the Relationship Between Part-Time Work and Mental Health
(2025)This study investigates the relationship between part-time employment and mental health among young professionals in the Netherlands, focusing on how income satisfaction and gender moderate this relationship. Using linear ... -
The Dutch Diversified Strategy and the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Examining the Dutch position towards the EU and NATO as security organizations in the period 2003-2005
(2025)This thesis explores Dutch security strategies in the period between 2003 and 2005, in the context of EUFOR Althea. It uses the framework of shelter theory to research how the Dutch employed a diversified strategy, employing ... -
"I am still what he made me"; A Foucauldian Analysis of Disciplinary Power, Female Madness, and Queer Resistance in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith
(2025)This thesis examines Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith through a framework of Michel Foucault’s concepts of madness, disciplinary power, and internalised surveillance to reveal the text’s argument that Victorian diagnoses of female ... -
Re-evaluating Models of Visual Working Memory in Light of Interference Effects
(2025)The cognitive processes responsible for temporarily maintaining and manipulating visual information, collectively referred to as visual working memory (VWM), are essential for understanding our environment and acting on ... -
Educational Mismatches in the Dutch Labor Market: The Impact of Overqualification and Underqualification on Job Satisfaction
(2025)In recent years, the number of highly educated workers in the Netherlands has reached record highs. Yet a degree doesn’t always guarantee a job that matches one’s qualifications. Many people end up overqualified or ... -
Predictors of Response to MDMA-Assisted and Ketamine-Based Treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review
(2025)This systematic review examines nine randomized controlled trials investigating MDMA- and ketamine-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with a focus on identifying clinical, neurobiological, and ... -
Exploring the Viability of Dutch E-Methanol Production for the Maritime Sector
(2025)This research explores the question: “How can Dutch e-methanol production with reused CO₂ reach a commercial and societal breakthrough in the maritime sector, what are the barriers, and how could these be overcome?” Rather ... -
Weaponizing Morality
(2025)This thesis explores the ethical concept of moral blackmail and applies it to the border crisis between Belarus and the European Union. Following EU sanctions against Belarus after rigged elections and violent repression, ...