Research

Research at University College Maastricht (UCM) is done within four research themes: Liberal arts education in europe in the 21st century, Politics from below, The EU as a Foreign Policy Actor and Psychology, Science and Society.

Research themes

Liberal arts education in europe in the 21st century

Politics from Below

The primary goal of the Politics from Below (PfB) research agenda is to develop an interlinked series of research projects that strive to understand the ways in which citizens across various parts of Europe critically engage with political issues and problems in local-level settings.

Politics from Below

The EU as a Foreign Policy Actor

The primary goal of this theme is the analysis of the role played by European institutions at various levels of governance - international, regional, national and local - in the area of foreign and security policy.

The EU as a Foreign Policy Actor

Psychology, Science and Society

The research theme Psychology, Science and Society deals with various processes that help us understand human behavior. By using theories and existing knowledge embedded in social psychology, legal and forensic psychology, law, and criminology, we examine several societal and scientific situations.

Psychology and Science in Society

Highlighted student publications

  • Bostan, O. & Malafei, I. (2019) “The Soviet Union is Inside Me”: Post-Soviet Youth in Transition. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 9, No. 2 (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v9i2.9380
     
  • Retteberg, S. & Willems, J. (2019). When Your Neighbourhood Changes: Living Through Gentrification in Amsterdam Oud-West. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 9, No. 1 (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v9i1.8882
     
  • Dougherty, O. (2018). Visible, Invisible: A Portrait of the Intersection Between Whiteness and Moroccanness in the Netherlands. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 8, No. 2 (2018)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v8i2.8687
     
  • Popper, A. & van Hout, F. (2016). Freedom and Emptiness: Investigating the Experience of Meaning-Making among Non-Religious Students. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 6, No. 2 (2016)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v6i2.7070
     
  • Rottman, S. (2015). Stories of Transition in South Africa. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 5, No. 2 (2015)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v5i1.8263
     
  • Ziegler, N. (2014). Forms of Resistance against the Government of Unemployment in Germany. The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - Vol 4, No. 2 (2014)
    https://doi.org/10.15273/jue.v4i2.8251

Collaboration

University College Maastricht (UCM) is an international and dynamic research community with an interdisciplinary character. UCM endeavors to collaborate with outside parties.