UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Judging Conservation: An Environmental Justice Approach to the Impact of the Chagos Marine Protected Area
(2025)The 2025 Agreement between the UK and Mauritius on the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago represents both an exciting step towards completing decolonisation in the Indian Ocean and a harsh reminder that the islands’ ... -
Childhood Trauma and Attachment Styles in Pain Decision Making
(2025)Decision-making in people's everyday lives involves exploiting familiar options or exploring new alternatives, known as the exploration-exploitation dilemma (EED). It is particularly relevant in the context of pain, because ... -
The Influence of Fire Regimes on the Subtropical grasslands in Bardia National Park, Nepal
(2025)The open grasslands of Bardia National Park in Nepal are critical habitats for several endangered species, yet they are increasingly threatened by the encroachment of woody vegetation. This process reduces forage availability ... -
Predicting protest: Conceptual framing and moral legitimization of predictive policing on social movements in the Netherlands by Dutch security actors.
(2025)This thesis examines how Dutch security actors conceptually frame and morally legitimize predictive policing in the context of protest, and what underlying governmental rationalities shape its development. Drawing on ... -
Role Overload or Opportunity? The Influence of Role Multiplicity on CSR Managers
(2025)As Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes increasingly central to business strategy, CSR managers are expected to assume a wide range of roles, encompassing compliance and reporting, strategic development, stakeholder ... -
The Impact of Drought on Water Quality (nutrients) in Agricultural Ditches
(2025)Surface waters in the Netherlands are being polluted by excess nitrate (NO3- ) and ammonium (NH4+) compounds which mostly originate from farming (including livestock). Droughts have shown to alter NO3- and NH4+ concentrations ... -
The Affective Politics of Inclusion in Elite Women’s Hockey
(2025)This thesis analyzes how inclusion is experienced and policed within elite women's hockey locker rooms in the Netherlands. A mixed-method survey of Hoofdklasse players is used, which combines statistical analysis with ... -
When the Odds Change: Evaluating the Effects of the 2024 U.S. Election Win Probabilities and ESG Ratings on Stock Returns
(2025)This paper examines how short-term fluctuations in the perceived likelihood of a Republican victory during the 2024 U.S. presidential election interacted with firm-level ESG ratings to influence stock returns. Using a ... -
Bystander trainingen: doeltreffend of te kort schietend?
(2025)In 2022 maakte BOOS een uitzending over de misstanden bij The Voice of Holland, waar ernstige meldingen waren gemaakt over grensoverschrijdend gedrag. Sindsdien is het aantal meldingen exponentieel toegenomen (Van der Ploeg ... -
Manufacturing Crisis: Populism, Sovereignism, and the Digital Politics of Insecurity in Romania’s 2024 Presidential Elections
(2025)This dissertation investigates how populist actors weaponise insecurity to legitimise sovereignist claims, with particular attention to the co-productive role of digital audiences in this process. Focusing on Călin Georgescu’s ... -
Helping People Help Themselves? The Role of Institutionalized Peer Involvement in European Harm Reduction Organizations from a Prefigurative Politics Perspective
(2025)Introduction: Harm Reduction started off as a movement based in prefigurative principles in response to the AIDS/HIV crisis. It sought to reduce harm experienced by people who use drugs by addressing root societal causes ... -
Reluctant repression: a case study of the ban on consumption of hard drugs in Utrecht
(2025)In the Netherlands, as in other nations, people using drugs in public and their related behavior are experienced as a nuisance by other residents. Municipalities have always been at the forefront of these debates, as they ... -
Multimodal Prosodic Phrasing in Infant-Directed Speech: Testing the Cumulative-Cue Hypothesis with Gesture Restriction
(2025)Human communication is inherently multimodal; the relation between speech and co-speech gestures is well established and facilitates face-to-face interaction. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms remain unclear. ... -
Impact of Genotype-Guided Versus Standard Dual Antiplatelet Therapy on Quality of Life in Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Patient-Reported Outcomes Comparison
(2025)Background: Genotype-guided CYP2C19 dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) aims to enhance the balance between ischemic and bleeding events by switching ticagrelor or prasugrel to clopidogrel. Even though effective in minimizing ... -
Let’s talk about sex baby
(2025)Background. Sexual regret is an important emotional outcome of sexual behaviour and is particularly relevant for girls, who face more social and biological risks than boys. Frequent child-parent conversations can support ... -
How Sapphic Songs Slay: A Queer Musicological Research on Sapphism, Vocality and Death in the Sirens' Voices in the Odyssey
(2025)This research is a reparative reading and a queer mythopoesis of the mythological figure of the sirens in the Odyssey, and more specifically of their deadly voices. In order to explore how sapphism, vocality and death ... -
Scary, Saggy, Subversive? Transformative Hagsploitation in The Substance (2024)
(2025)This thesis aims to explore critical and transformative analyses of the ageist-sexist figure of the 'hag' in horror cinematography. The thesis builds upon a rich history of feminist and queer theories on monstrosity and ...