Theses: Recent submissions
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Seeking Employment as a Refugee Woman in the Netherlands: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Gender Norms and Expectations
(2025)While existing studies on female refugees’ labour market integration often emphasise structural barriers, such as a lack of language skills or limited education, less attention has been paid to how social gender norms shape ... -
Dungeons & Dragons, Baldur’s Gate 3, and the Importance of Experiencing the Game in Transmedia Storytelling
(2025)In this thesis, I argue that the audio-driven experience of playing a tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) is central to defining transmedia storytelling entries based on TTRPGs. Traditionally, transmedia storytelling has ... -
Composing Short-circuits: a transductive analysis of the embodied relations between instrument and performer
(2025)This thesis explores the interconnectedness of human bodies, digital instruments and performance art. The focus is set on the analysis of the relationships between digital instruments and performers, where the interaction ... -
De medaille telt, maar de weg ernaartoe inspireert
(2025)Deze studie gaat over betekenissen van breedtesporters met een lichamelijke beperking aan narratieven rondom de inspiratie van paralympische topsport, en wat hiervan de beleidsimplicaties zijn in het sportdeelnamebeleid ... -
Chasing 28th by '28: EU conditionality and the challenges of state capture in Montenegro's path to EU membership
(2025)This thesis investigates how and to what extent European Union (EU) conditionality has facilitated the process of state capture in Montenegro. Although EU conditionality is intended to promote democratic reform, growing ... -
How Root Trait Dissimilarity Mediates Plant–Plant Interactions Under Drought and Nutrient Enrichment: A Greenhouse Experiment on Native Grassland Species
(2025)Introduction: In functional ecology, it has long been hypothesised that functional traits can be used to approximate niche differentiation and predict the outcome of plant–plant interactions. However, current research has ... -
Do global goals shape how international organizations interact? An analysis of the impact of the SGDs on the collaboration between the UN Development Programme and the UN Environment Programme
(2025)This thesis explores how the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 has influenced collaborative dynamics between two key United Nations agencies: the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and ... -
Precipitation and guano deposition: their combined impact on vegetation dynamics
(2025)Coastal ecosystems provide vital ecosystem services, including habitat provision, nutrient cycling, and shoreline protection. Vegetation helps to sustain these functions by acting as ecosystem engineers through soil ... -
MemeMind framework: Leveraging Large Language Models for Meme Classification and XAI
(2025)In the digital age, social media has become a vital platform for human interaction, reflecting a broad spectrum of ideas, emotions, and perspectives. Internet memes, as a prevalent form of digital content, have evolved ... -
The Controlling Factors of Authigenic Precipitation resulting from Submarine Groundwater Discharge Offshore the Lofoten-Versterålen Continental Margin, Norway
(2025)Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is an important process affecting ocean chemistry by transporting critical solutes, including trace elements, nutrients, and dissolved organic and inorganic carbon from the continental ... -
Purifying Video’s Visual Pollution: Videographics by Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt
(2025)The article is based on archival research into material contained by the Van de Bundts' partial artist archive housed at LI-MA, Amsterdam. Despite the status of Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt as the pioneers of Dutch abstract ... -
Faust’s Fractured Future: An Extramusical Study of Krautrock Discourse
(2025)Since its resurgence in the 1990s, krautrock—a diverse range of experimental music practices rooted in the radical West German counterculture—has garnered renewed critical and scholarly attention. Whereas earlier accounts ... -
The Influence of School Leaders’ Informal Learning on their Professional Identity in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education
(2025)Formal and informal workplace learning activities have become more relevant during the last years (Tynjälä, 2008), especially in education because of its influence on school leader professional development. The effects of ... -
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, ...