UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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In a Double Bind
(2022)This research is an ethnographic account of contemporary Dutch dairy farming and is the outcome of three months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands among dairy farmers. Dutch dairy farmers currently face a paradoxical ... -
Science Fiction Film and Becoming Otherwise: Woundedness, Posthuman Performativity, and Reinventing Subjectivity
(2022)This thesis is about becoming otherwise. The notion of Man, occupying the central position within the processes of meaning-making, needs to be accounted for affirmatively. Doing so becomes increasingly pressing as our ... -
Cultural heritage buildings in the circular transition
(2022)In 2050, 75%-90% of the existing building stock will still be standing in the Northern Hemisphere. To comply with the goals of becoming fully circular by 2050 in the Netherlands, the existing building stock needs to be ... -
Applying Intersectionality Theory to Pluvial Flood Risk - An empirical analysis of social vulnerability to urban pluvial flooding in Europe
(2022)Climate change projections indicate that extreme precipitation events will increase in the future, leading to increased pluvial flooding and flood hazards. While there is increasing attention toward flood risk analysis ... -
Living with Toxicity: Making slow violence noticeable in the surroundings of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
(2022)Residents of the surroundings of Schiphol are living with toxicity, as they are facing noise pollution and air pollution originated by Schiphol. In this thesis, I will examine the long-lasting social, environmental, and ... -
An Infinite Road to Reinvention: An ethnographic exploration of the embedding effects of space and time through the lens of inhabitants of the Dutch coastal village Wijk aan Zee
(2022)This thesis offers an anthropological lens on the effects of space and time and how these are collectively perceived and made sense of in Wijk aan Zee. Wijk aan Zee is a small coastal village in the Netherlands where two ... -
Inside the Hidden World of Homeless Women: Experiences of Belonging through Care Practices among Homeless Women in Eindhoven
(2022)Women make up a relatively small part of the homeless population people in Eindhoven, due to which they partly remain more hidden in academic research than their male counterparts. The purpose of this research is to shine ... -
ProbQL: A Probabilistic Query Language for Information Extraction from PDF Reports and Natural Language Written Texts
(2022)In recent years, Information Extraction (IE) has become an increasingly important field due to the vast amount of data being produced at an ever-increasing rate. However, it was estimated that about 80-90% of data produced ... -
Rewriting the future: How are individual and collective processes of agency and resistance negotiated through writing climate fiction?
(2022)In 2022, the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned once again of the severe environmental changes humanity should expect to experience over the following decades. As a counter-power to dystopian narratives ... -
A Surrender to Sila: Human-Snow Relations in Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat
(2022)Human-snow relations in Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat [Greenland] are part of a larger assemblage (Bennett 2010) that shapes the everyday practices and lifeworlds of local residents. In some ways, snow is a limiting force, ... -
Teaching catalysis as a means to enhance scientific literacy amongst chemistry students in Dutch secondary education - An explorative investigation
(2022)In order to develop scientific literacy, students should be encountered with relevant teaching material that is true to nature to the field of practice as it is today. Comparing a conceptual framework with an analysis of ... -
Inquiry-Based Mathematics Teaching at Secondary level in Lesson Study
(2022)Purpose – Investigate the development of IBL practices in LS and foster the sustainability Design/methodology/approach – Qualitative research based on reflection reports, questionnaires, and interviews Findings – Teachers’ ... -
Tijd voor Integriteit
(2022)Integriteit is een essentieel onderdeel van het ambtelijk vakmanschap. Burgers moeten voor de uitvoering van overheidstaken kunnen vertrouwen op de integriteit van de ambtenaren. Integriteit is daarom een belangrijk onderdeel ... -
Anomaly Detection Techniques on relational data as Quality Evaluation of a dataset
(2022)An outlier is a point that deviates significantly from the pattern that has been formed from the majority of the data points. The presence of outliers can exacerbate statistical results which leads to misrepresented ... -
Cellular Automata Fluid Physics For Voxel Engines
(2022)This master thesis investigates existing simulation techniques for continuum physics simulation and searches for a method that can be used for real-time simulation in a retro voxel engine. Consequently, a cellular automaton ...