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Kloon van "New: issue number 4 of MindOpen, the digizine about Psychology"

Issue number 4 includes interviews with John Hollenbeck, Debora Vansteenwegen and Dirk Hermans, Keith Markus, Daniel Cervone, Michael Lee, Dick Jennings, Borís Burle, Richard Shiffrin, Russel Spears and Dacher Keltner.

New: issue number 4 of MindOpen, the digizine about Psychology

Issue number 4 includes interviews with John Hollenbeck, Debora Vansteenwegen and Dirk Hermans, Keith Markus, Daniel Cervone, Michael Lee, Dick Jennings, Borís Burle, Richard Shiffrin, Russel Spears and Dacher Keltner.

Fourteen young UvA and AMC researchers receive Veni grant

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded 14 young post-doctorate researchers a Veni grant in order to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) or AMC. The researchers will each receive €250,000, enabling them to conduct research and develop their ideas for a period of three years.

CHE ExcellenceRanking 2009: UvA boasts three disciplines in Excellence Group

The University of Amsterdam came out on top at the CHE ExcellenceRanking 2009 and was placed in the ‘Excellence Group' for all three disciplines assessed in this ranking. These included Economics, Psychology and Political Science.

UvA honorary doctorates for psychologist Karmiloff-Smith and legal scholar Lessig

The University of Amsterdam is proud to confer an honorary doctorate on British-French cognitive psychologist Annette Karmiloff-Smith and American legal scholar Lawrence Lessig.

Four UvA study programmes receive highest professor ratings in Elsevier Thema Studeren

Four University of Amsterdam (UvA) Bachelor's programmes have been listed as the best in the country in the 15th edition of Elsevier magazine's higher education-themed supplement Elsevier Thema Studeren.

Published psychological study analyses often impossible to verify

In a letter published in this week's Nature, UvA psychologists Jelte Wicherts and Marjan Bakker criticise revised guidelines that make it more difficult to check the results of analyses presented in psychology publications.

UvA presents 15 research priority areas

Last year the University of Amsterdam drew up 15 research priority areas: research areas that represent the very best that the UvA has to offer - and take an international leading role. In this way the UvA hopes to stimulate and safeguard first-class research. The booklet Research Priority Areas covers these topics.

ZonMw subsidy for research into adolescent sleep problems

Psychologist Anne Marie Meijer from the department of Pedagogical and Educational Sciences has been awarded a €384,175 subsidy from the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) for research into the effects of online cognitive behavioural therapy among adolescents with sleep problems.

Bonne Zijlstra receives dissertation award

Last month Dr Bonne Zijlstra, methodologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Pedagogical and Educational Studies, was presented with the Psychometric Society’s dissertation award. Zijlstra received the award for his dissertation entitled 'Random effects models for directed graphs with covariates’, which was published last year.

Minister Cramer visits the UvA: working together towards sustainability

The evening of Monday 12 October saw over two hundred UvA students and staff members attend the Greenovator tour organised by Jacqueline Cramer, minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM).

Military alliances reflect Huntington’s categorisation of civilisations

A new sociological classification of the world based on military alliances closely mirrors Samuel Huntington's categorisation of civilisations.

The court rules... – Study assesses decision-making by full bench sections

How do full bench sections arrive at a ruling? Which circumstances have a beneficial or detrimental effect on their decision-making process? Prof. Carsten de Dreu (professor of Work and Organisational Psychology and Dr Femke ten Velden (university lecturer/postdoc) will be striving to answer these questions as they conduct their special research assignment for the Council for the Judiciary.

Political scientist Mügge receives prestigious Jean Blondel Award 2009

Daniel Mügge, university lecturer at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Political Science, has won the Jean Blondel Award 2009. He received the award in recognition of his thesis "Widen the Market, Narrow the Competition: The Emergence of Supranational Governance in EU Capital Markets", for which he was conferred a cum laude doctorate last year.

Study of ADHD in adolescents receives € 450,000 grant

UvA psychologist Dr Saskia van der Oord, Dr Hilde Geurts, Prof. Pier Prins and Ms Marije Kuin of ZonMW (the Netherlands organisation for health research and development) have been awarded a € 450,000 grant to study of the effectiveness of treatment for adolescents with ADHD that find it difficult to plan and organise their work. The training programme developed by Kuin and Van der Oord is the first of its kind to be targeted specifically at this age group.

Robert Kloosterman appointed honorary professor at University College London

Effective 1 September 2009, Robert Kloosterman, professor of Economic Geography and Planning at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) was appointed honorary professor at the Bartlett School of Planning, a faculty of University College London (UCL).

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UvA Masterweek 2009

The UvA Masterweek (Monday 23 November - Friday 27 November) is an opportunity to find out more about the range of Masters Study Programmes available at the UvA. A complete list of events and details is now available.

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MindOpen number 4 - Autumn 2009. Digizine on Psychology

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