UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Prescribing in terminal care at home
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Navigating the Moral Landscape: Moral Identity Threat and Stress Responses Examining the relationship between Moral Identity, Group Identification, and Stress Outcomes in Dutch-International Student Dialogues
(2023)This study explores the relationship between moral identity threat, stress responses and group identification in the context of intergroup discussions between Dutch and international students. Focusing on the interconnected ... -
Travel in early medieval Ireland: the practical and legal aspects
(2023)This thesis considers travel in early medieval Ireland. It answers questions such as: who travelled? How did these people navigate? What did they bring on their journey? What were the customs and laws regarding hospitality? ... -
Thinking through Sheep Wool: An embodied anthropological exploration of human-material relationships through wool working
(2023)Capitalism has alienated people from the making processes creating the products they consume, creating a loss of creative dialogue and craft knowledge. As knowledge of wool working is mostly possessed by the older ... -
Participatory sense-making of citizenship within the context of municipality-led citizen participation
(2023)When thinking about citizenship, one of the first things that come to mind is belonging to a national identity expressed through passports, residential permission, and other legal documents. However, citizenship comprises ... -
Prefiguring Anarchy: An Exploration of Self-Managed Social Centres as Spaces of Radical Care
(2023)This thesis explores the ways in which the future is approached and embodied through prefigurative politics in three self-Managed social centres in London, the United Kingdom. The concept of prefigurative politics, which ... -
Assessing the potential for Negative Emission Technologies in Austria
(2023)Negative Emission Technologies (NET) are considered critical for achieving the goal of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5°C or well below 2°C. NETs include both nature-based solutions and technological ... -
Unlock new recommendations for escape games!
(2023)Many teachers want to use escape box concepts, but are uncertain what design helps to improve learning outcomes. Collaborative learning, immersion and debriefing, are suggested to have a positive influence on learning in ... -
The Romantic Buffer: The Effect of Affective Touch by Romantic Partner on Itch Experience
(2023)Introduction: The sensation of itch on the skin starts when neurons called the C afferents are activated. Affective touch, slow touch that activates C tactile afferents, can inhibit an itch response. This study investigates ... -
The Impact of Homonationalism: Analyzing the Dutch government’s self-identity in relation to violence against queer asylum seekers
(2023)"In the last decades, there have been numerous cases of violence against queer asylum seekers in Dutch reception facilities. This contradicts the image of the Netherlands as a progressive safe haven for queer people. This ... -
Witnessing Performance; Embodied Empathy and Responsibility in Theatre
(2023)This thesis examines the spectatorial act of witnessing in the context of radical physical performance as a form of embodied empathy. Arguing the responsible presence of the audience in the theatre space, this study is an ... -
Socializing Fairy Tales from America to Vietnam: A Comparative Study
(2023)The socializing mechanisms embedded within fairy tales have been studied in the Western literary tradition but are under researched from other literary traditions. This thesis examines Vietnamese fairy tales through the ... -
Implementing and upscaling the “Improved Drainage System”
(2023)This master thesis explores the implementation of the Improved Drainage System (VDS) in the agricultural area of the Haarlemmermeer polder, aiming to reduce freshwater demand and mitigate waterlogging risks while maintaining ... -
Driving sustainable innovation through collaborative networks in diversified business groups: an action research study
(2023)INTRODUCTION Though the role of collaboration in business has been widely studied (Verdecho et al., 2011), significantly less is known about cross-subsidiary collaboration in business groups (Sandford et al., 2022). To ... -
Measuring maturity in corporate Circular Business Models
(2023)Circular economy (CE) remains underdeveloped although it is gaining momentum as an alternative to the current environmentally damaging linear economy. Organizations, under socio-technical regimes, are currently trapped in ... -
Unveiling plastic food packaging chemicals’ mixtures: a combined effect-directed strategy to assess environmental exposure and health impacts
(2023)Plastic packaging is a dominant sector within the plastic industry, primarily finding applications in food packaging. Chemical substances are intentionally incorporated into plastic food packaging to impart specific product ...