Theses: Recent submissions
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‘‘Unknown Structures’’: Annie Ernaux between literature and media
(2025)This research project proposes the Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux’s poetics as one interested in rendering lived experience as it simultaneously experiments formally. Extending the author’s idea of ‘unknown structures’, ... -
Duration Heard, Meter Drawn: Rethinking Musical Time with Henri Bergson
(2025)The thesis investigates how listeners perceive and conceptualise musical time by placing Henri Bergson’s philosophy of duration at the centre of rhythm and meter studies. I argue in this thesis that rhythm belongs to ... -
AI, Political Opinion, and Behavior
(2025)Technological innovation, from agricultural mechanization to computerization, has transformed economies in the past. Artificial intelligence (AI) represents the next wave of workplace automation, yet its effects on political ... -
Towards a Decolonial Intersectionality: Examining Power, Knowledge, and Identity in Chilean Elementary Teacher Programs. Urbina - 9193510
(2025)Feminist and Decolonial perspectives have come to be crucial theoretical frameworks in education and pedagogy throughout the years, bringing to the forefront issues that had been historically neglected. These theoretical ... -
Reprogramming Cellular Metabolism: A Link Between the Warburg Effect and Chromosomal Instability
(2025)The Warburg effect is the most common altered metabolism phenotype in cancer and is characterised by the increase in lactate production through aerobic glycolysis. There are several proposed functions of the Warburg effect ... -
"'t Geldt de eer van de Nederlandsche Natie": Nederlandsheid op de Olympische Spelen van 1928
(2025)De Olympische Spelen van 1928 waren een evenement van internationaal, nationaal en lokaal belang. In deze scriptie heb ik onderzocht hoe deze verschillende identiteiten verbeeld werden in culturele uitingen rondom de ... -
The morphological characteristics of Martian deltas. Comparison between experimental and Martian deltas
(2025)The Martian surface features deltaic morphologies that formed in standing water bodies through the sediment transport of rivers. The gravitational force on Mars is lower than on Earth, which may influence the morphology ... -
Investigating the role of lysyl oxidase in lateral integration of engineered cartilage tissue spheroids
(2025)Introduction: Degeneration of articular cartilage leading to osteoarthritis is the most common joint disease in the world. Attempts to regenerate defects show inadequate lateral integration. Copper (Cu)-dependent lysyl ... -
The Depiction of Alcoholism in The Outrun
(2025)The thesis looks at how different filmic devices are used to achieve defamiliarization in the portrayal of alcoholism in The Outrun (2024), which is an adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir by the same name. This is done ... -
Decolonising a Dutch literature course: from Dutch literature to literature in Dutch
(2025)The legacy of colonial structures in Dutch society is reflected in education, where both universities and the Dutch literary canon contribute to the reproduction of Eurocentric and exclusionary forms of knowledge. This ... -
Comparing Adaptive Retrieval Practice and Traditional Test Preparation: Effects on Students’ Long-term Vocabulary Retention
(2025)The high number of tests in Dutch secondary education has raised interest in alternative assessment methods. This study investigates whether adaptive spaced retrieval practice (SRP) can serve as an alternative. SRP is an ... -
President Donald Trump’s Administration’s use of Executive Orders and the Necropolitical Erasure of Gender Minorities in the United States (Gilley 7188404)
(2025)This thesis critically examines Executive Orders (EOs) signed by President Donald Trump in 2025 that address gender minorities in the United States. The community of gender minorities living across the United States has ... -
Can the Farmer Speak? The History, Class Politics, and Discourse of Dutch Agriculture and the Nitrogen Crisis
(2025)This thesis examines the politics and history of the 2019 Dutch Nitrogen Crisis, which saw an immense number of Dutch farmers participate in mass protests over proposed environmental regulations that would threaten their ... -
Loughrey 7653409 - Words Without Deeds Are Empty: The Irish Government's Solidarity with Palestine
(2025)The Irish government has been outspoken in their condemnation of Israel’s expanding occupation of Palestinian territories and have continued to support Palestine and its self-determination, often in opposition to larger ... -
Who Cares? Hegemonic Masculinity Under A Caring Lens
(2025)This research is an exploration of the relations between hegemonic masculinity and care. The thesis starts with R.W Connell’s conceptualisation of masculinity and concludes that masculinity is not inherently problematic ... -
Composting Capitalism: entangling with each other and disentangling from capitalism to create alternative prefigurative networks and systems
(2025)This thesis examines whether and how collaborative relations, structures and practices enable prefigurative alternative networks to be more effective and impactful in their collective goals. To do so, the research developed ... -
The Impact of European Renewable Fuel Mandates for Aviation and Shipping on the Dutch Energy System: A Scenario Analysis using IESA-Opt
(2025)The aviation and shipping sectors are challenging to decarbonize. Recent European regulations — ReFuelEU Aviation and FuelEU Maritime — mandate the use of renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs), including ... -
Adaptability in Embodied Conversational Agents: Comparing Rule-Based and Generative Models on Learning and Transfer in Conversational Skills
(2025)Introduction: Embodied conversational agents (ECAs) are simulation-based technologies used for training professional conversational skills. Two design models with contrasting levels of adaptability are generally implemented: ... -
Modeling the Evolution of Tonal Complexity: A Statistical Analysis from Renaissance to Baroque.
(2025)Studying musical evolution using time-consuming traditional methods can be a nearly impossible task due to the large datasets required. Computational methods, however, provide a useful alternative, as large amounts of data ...