The theoretical framework of this dissertation is based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach (Chapter 2). In the early 1980s, development economist Amartya Sen developed the capability framework as a broad normative framework for the evaluation and assessment …

Dit verslag is het resultaat van het afstudeeronderzoek van een cyber security student. Middels gefaseerd onderzoek is antwoord gegeven op deelvragen en uiteindelijk ook op de hoofdvraag. De hoofdvraag luidt ‘Hoe kan een SIEM zodanig geïntegreerd worden in een webhostingarchitectuur dat deze zoveel mogelijk …

In a workshop entitled ‘Harnessing the Hustle’, held at the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) in April 2017, a group of academic researchers and community activists came together to discuss a concept that resonated across ethnographic findings and everyday life alike: hustling. For many of us …

This paper is about the political imbalance in the EU when it comes to attracting European agencies. Over the years, mainly due to the Brexit negotiations and for cost-efficiency reasons, many EU agencies moved from the UK to elsewhere, finding a new sea for headquarters functions or other departments. …

The COVID-19 global pandemic has raised once more the spectre of world governance, demonstrating in one fell swoop, the intricate entanglement of nation-states and the challenges they face when confronted with a global threat. The pandemic has produced an array of problems, from the deaths of millions, …

Girls Work, as one of the methods used by professional youth work, focuses on helping vulnerable girls to shape their own lives (a capacity also referred to as ‘agency’). In this study, it is hypothesised that the methodical principles (i.e. the guiding principles of the methodical actions of the youth …

Foreword to the book International Perspectives on Teacher Well-Being and Diversity: Portals into Innovative Classroom Practice which focuses on key sources for teacher well-being like ownership, meaningfulness, self-efficacy, agency and autonomy. The book is based on inspiring cases from a variety of …

Purpose: Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, police officers are confronted with various novel challenges, which might place additional strain on officers. This mixed-method study investigated officers' strain over a three-month-period after the lockdown. Methods: In an online survey, 2567 police officers …

There is a dualism in current policy discourses on public health between neoliberal conceptions of health, and health as a product of social conditions. These conceptions also co-exist in the narratives of citizens. In this qualitative study carried out in the Netherlands, we analysed how people living …

“De Leer van het Gewekte Vertrouwen: Agency avant la lettre?” vroeg Dassen zich af in zijn artikel in het MAB van september 1989. In 1926 introduceerde Limperg zijn leer van het gewekte vertrouwen, de vertrouwensleer. Volgens Limperg is de accountant de vertrouwensman van de onpersoonlijke maatschappij, …