On 8 June, Professor Fred Zijlstra will bid farewell to the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience and his Chair in Work and Organisational Psychology. In his farewell address, he will look back on the work that has fascinated him for so long. We met him in his office to get a preview of this retrospective.
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website. The aim of the new website is to serve as a platform for information about our cross-border activities, providing you an easy way of learning all about our ongoing research projects, areas of expertise, publications, training activities and expert team.
The Great Resignation saw a record number of people change their jobs post-pandemic – 49 million US professionals switched jobs in 2021, and one in five workers worldwide were planning to quit their job in 2022. Surveys consistently found that job switchers were looking for better, fairer, working conditions and for more fulfilling work. Even before Covid, companies struggled to attract and retain professionals, often relying on financial incentives, often unsuccessfully. Our research suggests another, more sustainable, retention mechanism – company culture.
At the initiative of Harm Hospers, UM's then vice-rector of education, a regional network was set up in 2015 to support the integration and education of refugees. This education network is unique to the Netherlands and still active.
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded a grant under the SGW open competition to a research proposal written by Prof Dr Math Noortmann (Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility / ITEM) and Prof Dr J.B.M. Koning (UM School of Business and Economics). The project will run for two years and aims to map and analyse cross-border cooperation between police, public prosecutors and municipalities in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion in an interdisciplinary way.
Last week, during the NVMO Congress, three of our former PhD students were selected for the NVMO Thesis Award.
Maastricht University builds high-tech research greenhouse
The Centre for Gender and Diversity hosted a symposium with lectures and film screenings from four Ukrainian queer artists, researchers and filmmakers.
We are excited to announce that prof. Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke will join the School of Health Professions Education as professor of Learning and Assessment.
Much of everyday life consists of routinized and habitual activities that use energy, such as heating the home. Heating (space and water heating combined) accounted for about 80% of the final energy consumption of households while about 90% of homes in the Netherlands used natural gas for heating in 2020. It is therefore no surprise that many households has been hit hard by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since energy prices are contributing significantly to inflation at a time when the cost of living was already rising rapidly in the Netherlands. In this context, reducing energy consumption of households has become an even more critical and urgent issue. Household energy consumption relates to who we are, where we come from, and the socio-cultural and material contexts in which we live.