Theses: Recent submissions
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Post, Remix, Repeat: Affordances and Populist Tactics in AfD TikTok Networks (Volmer 7422032)
(2025)This thesis explores how AfD supporters use TikTok to circulate far-right narratives ahead of the 2025 Bundestag elections. I show how a decentralized network of mostly anonymous users takes advantage of TikTok’s features—like ... -
A Quiet Crisis: Representing Masculinity and Mental Health in Normal People
(2025)This thesis investigates the representation of masculinity and mental health in the television miniseries Normal People (Hulu, 2020), focusing on how these themes are constructed through the character of Connell Waldron. ... -
Analysing alternative polyadenylation in ALS using a predictive neural network
(2025)The predictive neural network model APARENT2 was used to analyse the effect of variants in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients on alternative polyadenylation (APA). Variants from whole-genome sequencing data of ... -
TransRV: Regressive Contrastive Learning of Tabular Transformer for Lease Vehicle Residual Value Prediction
(2025)Accurate residual value prediction is essential for car manufacturers and lessors, not only to ensure profitabilityandmaintaincompetitive market positions, but also to uncover market trends for business analysts. The current ... -
Bridging the Gap: Assessing the Alignment of PFAS Research Supply and Social Demand in the United States
(2025)The widespread use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has exceeded planetary boundaries, posing urgent environmental and health risks. However, the alignment between science supply and social demands to address ... -
Measuring Procedural Learning in Preschool-Aged Children: Evidence from a Shortened SRT-Task.
(2025)Procedural learning is often linked to language acquisition. However, despite the important changes in language development that preschool-aged children undergo, little research with this group has been done using a manual ... -
Fan Engagement with the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Negotiating Franchise Fatigue and Queer Representation in Agatha All Along
(2025)This thesis examines how online fan discourse surrounding Agatha All Along (AAA) reflects shifting relationships between audiences and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Drawing on fan studies, transmedia storytelling, and ... -
“I've always felt like Garashir was kind of canon.” Refurbishing a franchise and leveraging fans’ memories in Star Trek: Lower Decks
(2025)Hollywood studios have established a trend of revitalising old franchises, creating nostalgia-driven reboots, sequels and spin-offs. These rely on the fans’ memories of the originals, especially those who read products ... -
Efficiently and reliably evaluating text classification in data sampled via active learning
(2025)Text classification helps structure data such as medical documents but requires many labeled data examples, which are costly. Active learning reduces this cost by selecting only the most informative data to be labeled. ... -
A Turn-Based Serious Game for Learning Kanji for L2 Learners of Japanese
(2025)Learning kanji is one of the hardest aspects of learning Japanese, especially for L2 learners of Japanese. Kanji are complex, and methods to learn them are often not motivating. This study researched if a serious game could ... -
Instagram Stories and the Commodification of Everyday Life
(2025)This thesis sets out to explore the commodification of everyday life that is occurring through Instagram’s Story feature. The Story feature’s main characteristic is that posts will be deleted after the 24 hour time limit ... -
Planning for LGBTQ+ in the Urban Sport Park
(2025)In recent years, the Netherlands’ public agenda has centred on diversity, equity, and inclusion - particularly in the City of Utrecht. Yet, the most recent Lhbtiqa+-monitor 2024 (Brammer et al., 2024) illustrates that ... -
An Introduction to Parametric Morse Theory and Pseudo-Isotopies
(2025)Parametric Morse theory is a refinement of classical Morse theory that studies families of smooth functions on a manifold parametrized by an auxiliary space. This approach is particularly useful in understanding the topology ... -
External validation of six COVID-19 prognostic models for predicting mortality risk in older populations in a hospital, primary care, and nursing home setting
(2025)Objective: To systematically evaluate the performance of COVID-19 prognostic models and scores for mortality risk in older populations across three healthcare settings: hospitals, primary care, and nursing homes. Study ... -
Fan engagement in sports broadcasting. A Case Study of the Comment Section of Tomorrow Golf League (TGL) on YouTube
(2025)This thesis investigates fan engagement with the Tomorrow Golf League (TGL), through a thematic analysis of YouTube comments. The research is situated at the intersection of sports media and digital fandoms. The research ... -
Rail4Earth
(2025)This report is about my internship at the consultancy BiomimicryNL, through which I participated in the Rail4Earth project. The aim of the project is to make the European railway sector more sustainable, environmentally ... -
Introducing spatio-temporal graph networks to displacement predictions in the context of the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquake
(2025)A devastating earthquake impacted southern Turkey and northern Syria in 2023, laying waste to infrastructure alongside causing massive displacement of affected people. Utilizing mobile-phone records of people in the ... -
Organic matter burial capacity and characterization of coastal lakes in the Gösku Delta salt marsh
(2025)Coastal vegetated environments are among the most productive ecosystems of planet earth, despite covering a fairly small global area. Their high capacity to capture and store Carbon in their sediments has recently been the ... -
Western Representation and Cultural Sensitivity in Disney’s Moana
(2025)This master’s thesis offers an analysis of Polynesian cultural representation in Disney’s Moana (2016) through theories and concepts such as imagology, Said’s theory of Orientalism, Hall’s concept of cultural representations ... -
The growth machine in the European suburb: Land-value capture and the use of anti-segregation discourse in Kontula, Helsinki
(2025)In the United States, growth machine theory has served as a key framework for understanding the mechanisms of local urban politics. It maintains that coalitions of local elites work together to intensify land use, enabling ...