UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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MemeMind framework: Leveraging Large Language Models for Meme Classification and XAI
(2025)In the digital age, social media has become a vital platform for human interaction, reflecting a broad spectrum of ideas, emotions, and perspectives. Internet memes, as a prevalent form of digital content, have evolved ... -
The Controlling Factors of Authigenic Precipitation resulting from Submarine Groundwater Discharge Offshore the Lofoten-Versterålen Continental Margin, Norway
(2025)Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is an important process affecting ocean chemistry by transporting critical solutes, including trace elements, nutrients, and dissolved organic and inorganic carbon from the continental ... -
Purifying Video’s Visual Pollution: Videographics by Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt
(2025)The article is based on archival research into material contained by the Van de Bundts' partial artist archive housed at LI-MA, Amsterdam. Despite the status of Livinus and Jeep van de Bundt as the pioneers of Dutch abstract ... -
Faust’s Fractured Future: An Extramusical Study of Krautrock Discourse
(2025)Since its resurgence in the 1990s, krautrock—a diverse range of experimental music practices rooted in the radical West German counterculture—has garnered renewed critical and scholarly attention. Whereas earlier accounts ... -
The Influence of School Leaders’ Informal Learning on their Professional Identity in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education
(2025)Formal and informal workplace learning activities have become more relevant during the last years (Tynjälä, 2008), especially in education because of its influence on school leader professional development. The effects of ... -
Morfosyntactische verwerkingspatronen in het Nederlands: Zinsverwerking van een- en meertalige kinderen met en zonder TOS
(2025)Steeds meer onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat het taalverwerkingsvermogen van meertalige kinderen met een typische taalontwikkeling niet afwijkt van dat van eentalige kinderen met een typische taalontwikkeling, ondanks dat ... -
Mythen aan de Macht: Waarom de mythes van Nuchter en Polderend Nederland zo hardnekkig zijn (en blijven)
(2025)Historici falen te verklaren waarom mythes voort kunnen leven in rationeel ogende democratieën. Toch is het relevant om te weten hoe het kan dat mythes – die inherent de waarheid verdraaien – nog van grote invloed zijn op ... -
Virtually Social: A sociocultural approach to collaborative music-making through TikTok Duets
(2025)Digital content creation platforms have created environments where creative and social processes are deeply intertwined. Collaborative music-making through TikTok Duets exemplifies this convergence: the creative act itself ... -
Grandma Knows Best: The Epistemology of Women's Folk Beliefs and Practices
(2025)This project discusses the relation between women's folk beliefs and practices and knowledge. In particular, the project presents the view that, while these practices and beliefs have been often considered untrustworthy ... -
Narrating Irish Identity and Intimacy: Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) and Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018)
(2025)This thesis explores how Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These (2021) and Sally Rooney’s Normal People (2018) represent Irish identity and emotional intimacy. Although Keegan and Rooney differ in style, setting, and tone, ... -
SINFUL STIGMA: THE EFFECT OF STIGMA ON CANNABIS INITIATION, USE AND SEEKING TREATMENT - A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
(2025)Introduction: The use of recreational cannabis worldwide continues to rise globally, and it is currently the most commonly used drug, outside alcohol and tobacco. Despite the growing use of cannabis and the increase in ... -
Being Seen and Valued: The Recognition of Informal Caregivers in The Dutch Context
(2025)Background: One in three Dutch people provides care to someone from their direct social environment with an illness or disability. One in ten of those informal caregivers feels overburdened. While the recognition of informal ... -
Exploring Multiple Minority Stress: The Role of Peer Victimisation and Migration Background in the Mental Health of Same-sex Attracted Adolescents in the Netherlands
(2025)Sexually diverse adolescents experience more mental health problems than their heterosexual peers. In a representative cross-sectional sample of Dutch adolescents, we examined whether peer victimisation explains (i.e., ... -
Qualitative analysis of barriers and facilitators: Investigating experiences with financial support of primary caregivers of children with a disability and low income for sports participation
(2025)Dit onderzoek richt zich op ervaringen van gezinnen met laag inkomen en een kind met een beperking met het aanvragen van en gebruikmaken van financiële regelingen voor sport. Deze regelingen zijn vaak gericht op alle ... -
RURAL DRAMATURGY: SITE-SPECIFICITY, RURAL CONTEXT, AND STRUCTURE OF FEELING - The development of a theoretical framework for the analysis of rural dramaturgies
(2025)This thesis explores what rural dramaturgies could entail through an analysis of three site-specific Dutch performances: Hjir Ha Ik West (2019), Onze Grond (2021), and Huilende Bruiden (2021). These works, situated in rural ... -
Part-time work: Paradise or Purgatory? Income Satisfaction and Gender as Moderators in the Relationship Between Part-Time Work and Mental Health
(2025)This study investigates the relationship between part-time employment and mental health among young professionals in the Netherlands, focusing on how income satisfaction and gender moderate this relationship. Using linear ... -
The Dutch Diversified Strategy and the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Examining the Dutch position towards the EU and NATO as security organizations in the period 2003-2005
(2025)This thesis explores Dutch security strategies in the period between 2003 and 2005, in the context of EUFOR Althea. It uses the framework of shelter theory to research how the Dutch employed a diversified strategy, employing ... -
"I am still what he made me"; A Foucauldian Analysis of Disciplinary Power, Female Madness, and Queer Resistance in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith
(2025)This thesis examines Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith through a framework of Michel Foucault’s concepts of madness, disciplinary power, and internalised surveillance to reveal the text’s argument that Victorian diagnoses of female ...