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What happens when academics leave their comfortable armchairs and genuinely engage with the people they write about? According to David Ludwig, that is precisely what is needed.

Famine is still being measured as if the world has not changed. By relying on fixed mortality thresholds, today's classification systems risk recognising mass starvation only when it is already too late.

Research: LHBTIQA+ people from Gelderland and Overijssel feel less safe in public spaces than in 2023 New research by Vizier and Radboud University shows that LGBTIQA+ people in Gelderland and Overijssel feel less safe and accepted than they did two years ago.

How does misinformation spread through a population? Why do some communities remain resilient while others fracture? How is trust built up across Dutch society? The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Natio

Migrants vote en masse for populist right-wing parties and the left has no narrative; myths about voting behaviour are persistent.

Over the next few decades, climate change will pose new threats around the world. Researchers from Climate Analytics (Berlin) and Radboud University's Global Data Lab (GDL) have developed long-term projections of global climate vulnerability, extending to the year 2100.

Young people, working people, those with higher education and people with high incomes have the largest social networks.

Young people, working people, those with higher education and people with high incomes have the largest social networks.

Eleven research projects involving Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have received a grant from NWO for the SSH Open Competition M 2024. The researchers will be starting work on promising ideas for five years. The projects cover the entire breadth of the SSH research field, some with an interdisciplinary or cross-domain character.

Menopause and labour market perspectives, dignity for migrants and football games and (anti-)racism: it is a selection of the six research projects Erasmus University Rotterdam is involved in, which are being honoured by NWO in the SGW Open Competition 2024.

HARARA means "heat" in Arabic - a fitting name for a project that addresses one of the most pressing climate challenges of our time.

Through the NWO Open Competition, the NWO Social Sciences and Humanities (SGW) domain aims to offer researchers the opportunity to conduct research on a topic of their own choosing, without thematic restrictions.

Findings from the ten-year study on religion and church life in the Netherlands What still connects the Dutch now that churches continue to empty? That's the central question of the study God in the Netherlands , which KRONCRV's Kruispunt presents.