Tonight, I was elected president of the PhD Network of the University of Twente (P-NUT). I am very proud to be able to fulfill this role, and look forward to doing so with a superb team of board members. Over …
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I’ve had such a great year! Academic life is great, I know. Sure, it is getting increasingly competitive, the hours can be long, and deadlines can impose decent amounts of pressure. But looking back at 2011, I realize how wonderful …
Just a quick heads-up, to share that I will be presenting a paper at the ‘Day of Sociology‘ in Gent (Belgium) on May 26th. The presentation is called “Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment in 14 OECD countries, 1975-1999“. …
The PhD Network at the University of Twente (P-NUT) aims at providing an easy and detailed platform for PhD-related issues: professional as well as personal. P-NUT stays in close contact with the University Board, Personnel Department (PA&O) and National PhD-representatives …
I presented a poster presentation called “Do children keep their mother from working?” at a Ph.D. conference at the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies, University of Twente. I won the ‘Best Poster Award”! The jury was pleased with a …
Today, I am attending the ‘Day of Sociology’ conference at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. I look forward to all the presentations, together covering the broad field of Sociology in Flanders and the Netherlands. Also, I will present a …
I am very proud to have been accepted for participating in the Summer School on Analysing the life course. This summer school is part of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences 2 (QMSS2) program, funded by the European Science …
Last friday I gave my first lecture to a group of students. Or rather: soon-to-be students, for I was asked to give an active lecture to secondary school students on the ‘Laatkiezersdag 6 VWO’. These students recently finished their finals …
Today I was notified that my proposal for a presentation on userR! 2008, the The R User Conference 2008, is approved. Actually, I applied for a poster-presentation, but apparently the organization upgraded it to a full presentation. The presentation will be …
Today I’ve presented my paper titled `Uncertainty as a guiding principle in methodological pluralism’ Below the paper, the presentation, and the text belonging to the presentation are available for download. Reactions and discussion (both privately and via the comments) will …