UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Seeing Differently with Merleau-Ponty: The Power of Visual Art to Change our Way of Seeing
(2025)The modern way of seeing ourselves and the world is structured by a problematical subject-object thinking, which opposes human subjects to objectified “nature.” In the face of the ecological crisis, this dualism is no ... -
Mind the gap: factors influencing the translation of Nutrition Knowledge into Practice Intention, a case of two South African rural communities
(2025)This research set out to understand the factors that influence or hinder the adoption of new nutrition practices. Specifically, it seeks to understand why nutrition education leads to behaviour change for some but not ... -
Circularity in the Dutch Construction Market: Assessing the barriers and opportunities from governmental and economic perspectives
(2025)The construction industry is a significant contributor to climate change, responsible for substantial global resource use, energy consumption, water usage, and timber depletion. This study explores the potential of circular ... -
Bridging Tradition and Innovation: Women's Role in Agricultural Adaptation and Knowledge Transfer in the Mekong River Delta.
(2025)The Vietnamese Mekong Delta is among the world’s most climate-vulnerable agricultural regions, facing intensifying threats from draught, erratic rainfall, and soil degradation. These pressures disproportionately affect ... -
Vocalizing Torment: On the expression of emotion through voice quality in emo
(2025)The singing voice offers pre-eminently a source for the expression of emotion, as it forms the intersection of music and language, both known for their emotive power. Research on this topic has been scarce as compared to ... -
MYOPIC LOSS AVERSION (MLA) REVISITED Experiments with Homo Sapiens and Homo Silicus
(2025)This study investigates Myopic Loss Aversion (MLA) in both Human subjects and DeepSeek-based AI agents, meanwhile exploring whether DeepSeek, as a rational financial advisor, mitigates this bias. Replicating Gneezy and ... -
An island of consensus? Explaining legislative cooperation in the European Parliament despite the GAL-TAN cleavage
(2025)This thesis investigates the apparent paradox of enduring legislative consensus in the European Parliament (EP) amidst rising political polarisation. While the GAL-TAN (Green-Alternative-Libertarian vs. Traditional-Autho ... -
A sociological exploration of the role of support workers in elderly care organizations
(2025)Introduction: Reablement is a person-centred, holistic approach that increases the independence of an elderly person when it comes to meaningful activities in their own home. This approach of care promotes independent aging ... -
Pathways into a Degendered Labor Market: Exploring the Factors Allowing Notable Danish Women to Attain High-Status Occupations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(2025)Gendered occupational segregation remains salient in today’s labor market, clustering many women in lower-status and lower-paid jobs, despite progress in increasing female labor force participation in recent decades. Yet, ... -
The civic engagement gap among youth in secondary and tertiary education in the Netherlands: Exploring educational level differences, motivations and gender
(2025)Civic engagement among youth is essential for the sustainability of democratic societies, yet persistent inequalities exist in how young people participate in civic life. This thesis investigates how educational level and ... -
Oud en Kwetsbaar? Een kwantitatief onderzoek naar leeftijd, sociale kwetsbaarheid en fraudeslachtofferschap
(2025)Introductie: Fraudeslachtofferschap lijkt toe te nemen naarmate men ouder wordt. Hierbij spelen mogelijk aspecten van sociale kwetsbaarheid een belangrijke rol. Doelstelling: Fraudeslachtofferschap heeft grote individuele ... -
Invisible Inequalities: The Wellbeing of Refugee Children Living in Poverty.
(2025)Despite their potential vulnerability, research on the group of refugee children living in poverty and their wellbeing is limited. This research aims to explore the wellbeing of children living in poverty between 2016 and ... -
The Power of Feeling Supported
(2025)This thesis explores the role of perceived support in the well-being of young adults living in assisted living facilities in the Netherlands. While traditional social support models have primarily focused on received support ... -
Understanding online threat victimization: the roles of online activity, digital protective measures, gender and age
(2025)This study investigates the predictors of online threat victimization and repeat victimization within the Dutch population. Drawing on Routine Activity Theory (RAT) and Repeat Victimization Theory, it examines how individual ... -
Menopause in the Workplace: Qualitative Insights from Contrasting Work Environments
(2025)Menopause has received increasing attention in media, public discourse, and academia. Recently, research has highlighted the challenges it poses in the workplace. However, how menopausal experiences differ across industries ... -
Cultural Contexts of Geroprotection: A Cross-National Study of Dietary Adherence, Social Norms, and Gamification in Italy and the Netherlands
(2025)This study investigates how culture influences people's health practices and how gamified digital tools can improve these behaviors. It accomplishes this by contrasting two countries with different cultural perspectives: ...