Jessica Duncan has been awarded the Excellent Education Prize for the two courses:
- RSO-22306 Food Culture and Customs
- RSO-21306 Policy, People and Resources in Comparative Perspective
Congratulations!
Category Archives: Education
Possible Thesis Topics: Trends in Global Food Security Governance
We are looking for good and motivated BSc and MSc students to conduct research on the following four topics:
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Deconstructing the discourse of evidence-based policy making.
Project: Calls for evidence-based policy making are increasing evident in global food security policy processes, and beyond. For example, the follow up and review process for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to be “rigorous and based on evidence, informed by country-led evaluations and data which is high-quality, accessible, timely, reliable and disaggregated” (UN General Assembly, 2015, para. 74). Behind this push for evidence-based decision making lies a set of highly political questions about what evidence is considered appropriate? How should it be selected? Why? And by whom?
This thesis project will identify and analyse calls for evidence-based policy making made in food security policy processes at the multinational level so as to better understand the political nature of evidence and the implications this has for policies and claims to knowledge and expertise. Continue reading
BSc Thesis vacatures: o.a. Gezondheidszorg & Krimp en Vluchtelingenopvang
BSc Thesis vacatures: o.a. Gezondheidszorg & Krimp en Vluchtelingen opvangMocht je geïnteresseerd zijn in één van de volgende onderwerpen, dan zouden we je graag begeleiden tijdens het schrijven van je BSc Thesis. Momenteel zoeken we studenten voor de volgende onderwerpen:
Bachelor Gezondheid en Maatschappij:
- Verkenning van onderzoek naar initiatieven om (eerstelijns) gezondheidszorg op een nieuwe manier veilig te stellen in plattelandsgebieden, die te maken hebben bevolkingsdaling. Daarbij gaat het mij met name om ervaringen elders in Europa. Het achterliggende probleem is dat het steeds moeilijk wordt om huisartsen te vinden die zich willen vestigen in plattelandsgebieden. Ik ben betrokken bij een groep huisartsen in Nederland die nieuwe mogelijkheden willen verkennen om huisartsenzorg zo te organiseren die tegemoet komt aan de zorgvraag vanuit de bewoners maar het bieden van zorg ook aantrekkelijker maakt voor de nieuwe generatie huisartsen.
Foto : Karel Zwaneveld
BSc Thesis opportunity: The Human Factor in Place-shaping
We are looking for motivated BSc students that are interested in writing a thesis with the Rural Sociology Group on the topic of place-shaping. The student will engage in a literature-based study, starting literature will be provided by the supervisor. The report will preferably be written in English.
- The (re-)appreciation of places; paying attention to socio-cultural practices; people’s sense of place; regional identities, narratives and story-lines, and branding of places[1];
- Individual values and collective culture as the ‘inner’ dimension of sustainability; addressing questions such as: why would people get engaged in sustainability initiatives and self-organization; how and why do people value places but also oppose to the spatial planning of new projects, such as wind-energy parks; how are citizens initiatives and place-shaping influenced by awareness, culture, identities and values; Which ‘policy scripts’ can be identified addressing the role of culture in places?
- Collective agency, emerging grassroots initiatives, alliances and coalitions; addressing the questions: how can spatial development enable the ‘energetic society’? How do people on the local and regional administrative level reflect on and negotiate the conditions of their engagement in place-shaping, how do they express agency and create a countervailing power in rural and urban development; how can effective (public-private) alliances and coalitions be build?
- Leadership of place; which acknowledges the role of shared, collaborative (knowledge) leadership in building collective agency, in attuning the institutional setting to the specificities of place, thus enabling a place-based approach.
- Methodology; Qualitative case-study research; Participatory approaches; Action-research; Value-oriented approach, Appreciative Inquiry.
BSc Thesis Opportunity: Social Value of Neighbourhood Apps
In recent years several ‘apps’ have been developed in order to help people exchange both tangible items such as materials or food, and intangible issues such as knowledge and information. Examples are ‘nextdoor’, created to exchange news and other information between neighbours, ‘peerby’, designed to help people lend each other tools and utensils, and ‘thuisafgehaald’, a website facilitating people to cook for others in their neighbourhood. Besides offering practical solutions to ‘use the power, the knowledge and the stock of the masses’, such applications are also often viewed in terms of social cohesion and strengthening neighbourhoods.
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