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Faculty submission for Best Practice in Teaching & Learning Award: Zoltán Lippényi and Giorgos Michelakis

Jaap Nieuwenhuis was interviewed by Omrop Fryslân about neighbourhood renewal plans and social mixing in the Vlietzone neighborhood in Leeuwarden.

How do people come up with new ideas together? And how does an innovative idea spread through an organization? In our new course Project Social Networks, students learn how to conduct empirical research on the structure and functioning of social networks.

In collaboration with Groninger Energiekoepel (GrEK), Dennis Nientimp and Jacob Dijkstra of the Sociology Department have secured a grant from the Programma Energieparticipatie (PEP) to set up learning communities with the aim of promoting participation in energy transition in the province of Groningen.

In the podcast “The Sociology Show,” Jacob Dijkstra talks about the minor Climate Sociology that can be taken at 7 universities and the importance of social connections to the success of sustainable initiatives.

If hard work doesn't pay off, why do it?
On work and inequality.

Dr. Mark Beuker, dr. Hans ter Haar, prof. Wilbert Kolkman, prof. Leon Verstappen and dr. Irene Visser (Faculty of Law) in collaboration with dr. Marieke Haan en dr. Elianne Zijlstra (Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences) have released a WODC report titled ‘Support for the Compulsory Portion’ (‘Draagvlak voor de Legitieme Portie’) under the auspices of the Notarial Institute Groningen.

Top earners are increasingly working exclusively with other highly paid colleagues, while contact with middle-income workers declines. This is according to a large-scale international study on workplace collaboration, conducted by a team of social scientists in twelve OECD countries.

The SOCION consortium , in which social sciences and humanities researchers from five different knowledge institutions are conducting research on social cohesion, has secured a €30 million Summit Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

'The end of meritocracy' - farewell lecture by Dr. Arie Glebbeek (Associate Professor of Sociology). Highly recommended for anyone with (policy, political or scientific) interest in education, labor market and social stratification.