FASoS Research Institute
Moving boundaries, bridging disciplines
The research institute of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University studies societies and cultures as they unfolded during the modern and contemporary era in a radically interdisciplinary manner. We analyse the interrelationships of Europeanisation, globalisation, scientific and technological development, political change and cultural innovation. We are interested in how today’s societies cope with and reflect these challenges in various ways. These could be artistic practices and practices of remembrance as well as specific forms of governance and political integration as well as strategies for managing knowledge, technologies and risks. While our research starts from today’s problems, we have a strong interest in how the modern world came to be.
Research
To nurture and maintain this kind of innovative, interdisciplinary research, the research institute of FASoS has created a matrix organisational structure. Its backbone are four distinct research programmes, each of which is composed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. While the research programmes form the core of the research activities at FASoS, the faculty also has five centres as specific research hubs and to facilitate interaction with external academic partners and societal stakeholders. Together, the research programmes and the research centres provide a framework that facilitates flexibility, networking, and mobility beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Research Centres
News
Monika Barget awarded OpenUP Grant
€5,000 for the project “Data scraping and analysis for the arts and social sciences”.
Karin van Leeuwen awarded NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant
€50,000 for the project ‘Judicialization and democracy: towards an historicized approach’.
Limburgish on the digital map
A digital infrastructure (digital resources and technical systems to store, manage and make the language accessible) will be set up in one year to collect, manage and complete a Limburgish Corpus.
Johan Adriaensen awarded NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant
€50,000 for the project ‘Implementing trade agreements (IMPLETRAD)’.
Prestigious European grant for two UM researchers
Two researchers from Maastricht University (UM) have received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to set up a scientific research team in the coming years for studies on bioprinted models of a human kidney and on female guest workers from...
