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As of 2020, ODISSEI will become stakeholder of eData & Research. This newsletter on data and research in the social sciences and humanities is delivered three times a year to all researchers in these fields for free. The editors of this magazine a representatives of the several stakeholders. Besides ODISSEI, these are DANS, CentERdata, CLARIAH,…

On Thursday 21 November, the Netherlands eScience Center organizes it’s 6th annual eScience Symposium at the Johan Cruijff ArenA in Amsterdam. This year’s theme is ‘Digital Challenges in Open Science’. During this event ODISSEI wil host a session of 1,5 hours in the afternoon. ODISSEI representatives will present the various component parts of the data…

22 october 2019, Utrecht, Stadium Galgenwaard ODISSEI will be organising a conference for its community on Tuesday 22 October. During this event, ODISSEI will be presenting projects that used the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC), projects granted during the LISS call 2018, and those that received a Microdata Access Grant (MAG). Plans for the future will…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researcher: Mariëlle Cloin (Tranzo, Tilburg University) Being a parent for many men and women is a joyful yet challenging experience, imposing a unique mix of stress and rewards. Most parents report parenthood as a complex but positive experience. Much research is done on how risk factors, i.e. stressful conditions, effect the…

This project was co-financed by ODISSEI in the 2018 LISS call for proposals.Researchers: Nadine Bol and Marjolijn Antheunis, Tilburg University The emergence of digital health provides doctors with new ways to communicate with patients, for example via online applications such as Skype. Patients might balance benefits (such as efficiency) and potential barriers (like privacy costs)…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: R. Müller, B. Aysolmaz (Maastricht University) Today, algorithmic decision making (ADM) services, including machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, have become a vital part of our daily lives, while their use causes a continuous debate and tension. Public perception is seen to be the determiner of the progress and future…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: B. Struminskaya (Utrecht University),  F. Keusch (University of Mannheim & University of Maryland) Presently, a lot of detailed data about individual behaviour is being collected. While data collecting research organisations are concerned with maintaining participants’ anonymity, research participants who are asked to share passively collected data such as GPS location,…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: A.N. Smeekes (UU), T. Wildschut (University of Southampton), C. Sedikides (University of Southampton) The Ipsos Global Trends Survey shows that national nostalgia thrives across the world. In most countries, more than 50% of the population would like their country to be the way it was in the past. People can…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: S. M. Breugelmans (TiU), M. Zeelenberg (TiU), K. Hoyer (TiU) Self-interest and greed are important economic motives that only recently have been studied as individual differences at the psychological level. The extent to which these two motives are distinct as well as related to socioeconomic success is not well understood.…

Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: Henk van der Kolk (UT), Armen Hakhverdian (UvA), Matthijs Rooduijn (UvA), Andrej Zaslove (RU) Populist parties and politicians are increasingly successful. As a result, scholars increasingly focus on the topic of populism. A promising new strand in the populism literature focuses on measuring populism as an attitude among individual citizens.…