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Ad hoc crisis responses: a curse for international organisations?
Yf Reykers, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, has received a 1.2 million euro grant from the Norwegian Research Council to study the impact of ad hoc crisis responses on international organisations.
Melissa Siegel: Creating impact, one YouTube video at a time
As we move forward to address global challenges, facts and scientific research need to feed community knowledge and play an important role in public decision-making. For this, effective research communication is key! For this article, we spoke about this topic with Professor Melissa Siegel, who is...
“Ethnic or racial categories in health research don’t capture the complexity behind health inequalities”
After George Floyd was killed by an American police officer, many hundreds of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest against racism. These protests also prompt self-reflection at UM: what is the current situation in terms of the use of race and racism in Dutch health...
This is not normal, but it is going well
Interview with the coordinator and a student from the block Health, Nutrition and Exercise, ifirst-year bachelor’s students in Health Sciences and 24 tutors/trainers switched to online education over a weekend.
UM student interviews global entrepreneur on the business impact of COVID-19
SBE student Sandro Esposito interviews global entrepreneur Suvra Chakraborty to find out more about the business impact of COVID-19.
What role can academics play in addressing the ongoing crises of global warming and biodiversity loss?
What is the meaning of academia in times of environmental crisis? This question brought us together during a debate initiated and organized by Students for Climate Maastricht, and supported by Sustainable UM2030 and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Is ‘MOCCA’ in class 30 generic in China?
What does the term ‘MOCCA’ evoke in your mind, a kind of coffee or a specific brand? This Kat randomly asked this question to her friends currently at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Munich. Most of them regarded ‘MOCCA’ as a kind of coffee instead of a specific brand except...
Dr Manuel Stoffers (E.P.M.)
Geschiedenis of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences