Catalogue

This reader is an adaptation of the fourth edition of Research Methods in Psychology by Jhangiani, Chiang, Cuttler & Leighton. It also adapts a chapter from Social Science Research: Principles, Methods and Practices, by Bhattatcherjee This work (and, for that matter, both books it adapts from) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The goal of this adaptation is to improve the fit of the material to the Research Skills pre-msc course, which focuses on business research rather than psychological research (though the disciplines share many similarities). To this end, this reader selects and adapts a set of relevant chapters from the original book. A more detailed list of changes can be found at the end of the book.

This reader is a ‘living document’, in the sense that material is changed on an annual basis to improve this fit with the course it is associated with.

Smeltend poolijs, snel slinkende biodiversiteit, hittegolven en overstromingen, nog steeds armoede en onrecht in grote delen van de wereld. Geen redden meer aan?

In dit boek laten wetenschappers uit diverse disciplines samen met professionals uit de praktijk zien hoe zij werken aan een duurzame, groene en rechtvaardige wereld. Hun verhalen benadrukken de urgentie van de problemen, maar tonen vooral ook uitwegen. Ze inspireren tot nadenken en tot handelen – of je nu socioloog, bioloog, arts, historicus of jurist in spe bent. Want met jouw academische kennis en vaardigheden kun je bijdragen aan een duurzamere wereld.

Wetenschapsjournalisten Paul van den Broek en Bea Ros tekenden de verhalen op. Kunsthistoricus Peter Zunneberg selecteerde bij elk verhaal kunstwerken om je ook op een andere manier uit te dagen na te denken over de wereld van nu en morgen. Hoogleraar Cultuureducatie Edwin van Meerkerk ontwikkelde bij elk hoofdstuk lessuggesties, met stof tot nadenken én doen.

• Professional Identity Formation (PIF), which emphasises the internalisation of professional values, attitudes, and behaviours.
• Socialisation and the hidden curriculum, which shape students’ understanding of professional norms and practices.
• Subjectification, which fosters autonomy, self-awareness, and the freedom to make deliberate choices in one’s development.
• Boundary crossing, which encourages students to navigate and learn from socio-cultural differences and discontinuities in action or interaction.

The world in which we live, is experiencing an unparalleled increase in digital technologies. Data is at the core of the current digital innovation. It is estimated that global data generation will triple between 2025 and 2029. The reasons behind this worldwide growth in data are varied, but undeniably they include the increased use of digital technologies in all areas of life.

While the volume of available data is important, in terms of innovation, availability coped with the knowledge on how to use the data is the key to success. Data analysts, information technology engineers and the likes focus on gathering, linking, interpreting, using data, creating algorithms and code in order to address specific problems and create new digital solutions. The role of lawyers in this framework is not of less importance. Lawyers need to ensure that all of these data driven activities comply with the applicable legal framework and that all the safeguards are in place for the protection of fundamental rights.

The 2nd Data Driven Innovation workshop, organized in March 2025 at the University of Groningen by the Security, Technology and e-Privacy research group (STeP) together with the students of the LLM program in Technology Law and Innovation, focused on the current legal challenges in Data Driven Innovation.

This edited volume takes stock of current legal debates and presents a number of selected chapters that reflect upon core legal problems of Data Driven Innovation.

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Collection of activities for ice-breaking, teambuilding, and intercultural empowerment.

Handbook

The overall aim of this handbook, Creative and Inclusive Heritage Education, and its accompanying activity book is to provide teachers with the necessary theoretical tools and practical exercises to foster a more inclusive teaching practice using heritage as a vehicle for self-awareness, collective meaning-making and conflict resolution in the learning space. By helping educators to identify and counter exclusionary narratives, by stimulating their interest in their own histories and those of their students, and by engaging in creative heritage work, the handbook and the activity book allow educators to make the best of the social and educational value of heritage.

Circadian Biology is about the adaptation of life to our rotating world, to the Earth’s 24-hour rhythm of day and night.  Not surprisingly, the field has attracted considerable popular and scientific interest from people seeking further study or applications.  This new diversity is exciting and invigorating!  But newcomers may have little or no foundational knowledge on the essential principles and practice of circadian biology, no framework upon which to incorporate their disciplinary experience and expertise.  If this describes you, our intention is to provide you with a Road Map – call it a launching pad, jump start, gateway, or primer – as a first (and hopefully engaging and helpful) step to enter the field and as an entrée to its now voluminous literature.

This is a Cases and Material textbook curating sources on Data Protection and digital Human Rights law. The textbook aims at providing a “one-stop shop” for students, researchers and practitioners studying these dynamic areas of law. The book is designed and written primarily with students of the LLB programme in Technology law (Faculty of Law, University of Groningen) in mind. The need for this textbook as an educational tool came up when we  started teaching a course dedicated to Data protection and digital Human Rights law. We soon realised that there is no equivalent textbook in the market that places together the relevant sources in a structured fashion. Thus, we decided to cover this gap. With that being said, this textbook is equally relevant to any student or to anybody who has an interest in these areas. It was important to us to have online open access educational material that can be accessible to everybody around the world and that can be easily updated given the quick developments in the field.

At present, there is little material available to help both novice and experienced (university) instructors effectively supervise academic research, particularly theses. In many cases, thesis supervision becomes a protracted process that is frustrating for both instructors and students. This guide offers practical tips for optimizing this process by drawing on the agile methodology, which was developed in the business world.

A pdf version of this book, available via the University of Groningen Press website will follow soon.

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