UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Warming Trends: Analysing the Impact of Temperature anomaly on the risk and return of the US stock market.
(2024)In this study, I examine how temperature anomalies affect the stock returns and volatility of US public companies, particularly those in heat-sensitive industries. This study employs a panel data fixed effect regression ... -
Modelling the hydrology of the East African Rift System with PCR-GLOBWB2
(2024)Water is widely recognized as the most vital natural resource; however, human activities and climate change threaten these freshwater resources. Climate change and subsequent global warming, driven by greenhouse gas ... -
I Drone, You Drown. The Deployment of Drones by Italian Authorities in the Lampedusa Refugee Crisis between 2013 and 2018.
(2024)This thesis analyses the use of drones by Italian authorities to manage the refugee crisis in Lampedusa between 2013 and 2018, focusing on the logics of technological capability, humanitarianism, and securitisation. ... -
Investigating the potential of Plantago major in the removal of PFAS from soils and surface waters
(2024)The occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in environmental media, such as soils and surface waters, has led to a worldwide concern. This is because most PFAS have a tendency to accumulate in organisms, ... -
"Do You Even Know What Offside is?" - Anthropological research on female Ajax fans
(2024)Football is generally perceived as a male dominated space with masculine characteristics such as machismo, misogyny, and homophobia. Research in this field has mostly focussed on male football fans. In the Netherlands, ... -
THE DECARBONISATION OF THE MARITIME TRANSPORT SECTOR: ASSESSING THE TRANSITION AND SYSTEMIC BARRIERS
(2024)The maritime transport sector, plays a significant role in global greenhouse gas emissions, contributing approximately 2.9% of global emissions and 3-4% within the EU (European Commission, 2024). Achieving climate neutrality ... -
Construction as Resistance: Constructing a desired and envisioned future to perceived oppression for the sovereign citizen milieu in the Netherlands
(2024)An increasing number of people in the Netherlands view the state and established institutions, such as the news media, academia, and economic structures, as illegitimate. Within a broader anti-institutionalist sentiment, ... -
Home in the Traces of Ishbiliya
(2024)In a globalizing world influenced by migration and transnational networks, the concept of belonging to a place is becoming increasingly complex. Sevilla, a city with a multicultural and multireligious history, might be ... -
A Rogga by Any Other Name: Subverting and Upholding Traditional Racial Narratives Through the Afrofuturist Landscape of N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
(2024)This thesis explores how N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy both reinforces and subverts common narratives of race, using speculative fiction and the consequent subgenre of ‘Afrofuturism’ as a lens to critically examine ... -
LATIN AMERICAN TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST SOLIDARITY: Alliance for Safe Abortion Access
(2024)This dissertation explores the crafting of feminist alliances in the Latin American context that navigate and resist oppressive structures and propose new human rights paradigms that prioritise women's autonomy and dignity. ... -
The role of participatory budgeting in creating fair urban green spaces: A case study of Wrocław, Poland
(2024)Environmental justice is an approach concerning the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. It emphasizes the need for all communities, especially those historically marginalized, to have fair access to ... -
Understanding the Impact of Loss: A Research into the Relation between Quality of Life and Prolonged Grief Symptoms, as Moderated by the Relation and Bond to the Deceased
(2024)The present study aimed to gain more insight into the risk factors of Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) in children after significant loss, using Neimeyer’s model of pathways to complicated grief as a theoretical basis. The ... -
The exploitation of developing countries by private companies for their deep-sea mining rights: the case of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone
(2024)The thesis examines the implications of the 'common heritage of mankind' principle, as outlined in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), on the exploitative partnerships between private companies ... -
Navigating Urban Citizenship: The enactment and reflection of the Havermelk Elite on being a citizen in Amsterdam
(2024)This thesis investigates the interplay between individualism and citizenship among Amsterdam's "Havermelk Elite," a term derived from Elizabeth Currid-Halkett’s concept of the 'aspirational class.' The study examines whether ... -
The Influence of Musical Training on Statistical Learning in Speech Segmentation: Combining Offline Methods With Online Neural Tracking (EEG)
(2024)Background: While Statistical Learning (SL), which is crucial for speech segmentation, is well-researched, the exact underpinnings of individual differences in SL remain unclear. Research has found that Musical Training ... -
The Role of the B Corp Certification in Early-Stage Investors' Decision Process
(2023)The B Corp certification is adopted by an increasing number of early-stage ventures to present themselves favourably to investors and increase their funding chances. The current understanding of the processes underlying ... -
Pandora's Jar has opened: now what?
(2024)This thesis studies the navigation of trade-offs and key decisions in carbon removal scale-up policy. It does so by means of an explorative case study comparing two nations with emerging carbon removal policy: California ... -
Bodies as Battlegrounds: Being a Refugee in the Divided Cyprus
(2024)This thesis explores the embodied experiences of refugee racialization in Cyprus. It focuses on how structural policies and everyday interactions perpetuate racial prejudices against refugees. Through a three-month ... -
Beyond Mining: Collective Imagination and Community Cohesion in Roșia Montană
(2024)This study examines the relationship between collective imagination and social cohesion in Roșia Montană, a UNESCO World Heritage Site deeply impacted a proposed. The primary objective is to explore how socio-economic and ...