Reducing energy consumption in urban households is essential for reaching the necessary climate research and policy targets for CO2 reduction and sustainability. The dominant approach has been to invest in ...
This book presents the results of the international research project CODALoop: Community Data Loop for Energy Conscious Lifestyles. It dissects the energy practices that make urban households demanding energy in ...
Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have deployed various strategies in motivating businesses to source sustainably, such as the co-development and promotion of sustainability certification and direct collaboration in ...
In het kader van het promotieonderzoek van Yvette Wittenberg is onlangs een nieuw artikel gepubliceerd. Hieronder vindt u de abstract en kunt doorklikken naar het volledige artikel.
By way of a case study on the regulatory role of owners and managers of brothels and rented rooms for prostitution, this study focuses on the strategies deployed by a municipality to govern these intermediaries. The ...
Girls Work is a method of professional youth work that support girls in vulnerable circumstances to develop agency (Bandura, 2006). In doing this, girls mediate between who they personally want to be and what is ...
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 ...
This chapter discusses the efforts of community workers to obtain consent in local communities as a basis for taking action on issues that are affecting local people’s lives. Crucial here is that community ...
Dutch citizens on welfare have to volunteer at Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in return for their benefits. Through applying the ‘worlds of justification’ of Boltanski and Thévenot, this ...
Op 31 oktober is het boek ‘Art in social work practice’ verschenen. Een verzameling succesvolle methodes om kunst en cultuur toe te passen in sociaal werk. Sociaalwerkprofessionals uit de hele wereld ...
This scoping review focuses on the views of informal caregivers regarding the division of care responsibilities between citizens, governments and professionals and the question of to what extent professionals take ...
Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research.
Girls’ work: (How) does it contribute to the agency of girls in vulnerable circumstances?
Teachers can play an important role in students’ healthy relational and sexual development. You can pay attention to this subject with specifically designed lessons. But it’s even more important to ...
Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work.
Multiple studies have shown that Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is, at group level, an effective treatment for adolescents showing serious externalizing problem behavior.
In our recently started multiple case study - funded by the Netherlands Scientific Board (NWO) - on these processes of collaboration, we focused on the dynamics in growing partnerships between citizens, community ...
Dit is de Engelstalige versie van de publicatie 'spelenderwijs naar nieuwe verhoudingen'.
De legalisering van prostitutie 2000 was een poging van de overheid om in te grijpen in de logica van een relatief autonoom opererende prostitutiesector. Door het legaliseren werd de markt voor het verkopen van ...
<p>BACKGROUND: The quality standards of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care require monitoring of the satisfaction of patient's relatives with respect to care. Currently, no suitable instrument is available in ...
The transition taking place within the Dutch healthcare system has been a central theme in politics and public debate for decades. The recent changes again demand the full attention of researchers and educators in ...
Rick Kwekkeboom wrote this article in April 2016. It was then published in "Der pädagogische Blick", 24. Jg. 2016.
“Schets een visie voor de invulling van medezeggenschap binnen de HvA. Schrijf een veranderplan met de meest waardevolle en kansrijke maatregelen voor korte (binnen komend zittingsjaar) en lange termijn om bij ...
Collective digital citizenship through local memory websites
Artikel over kleinschalige stedelijke projecten voor een nieuwe eeuw gepubliceerd in EU@Amsterdam, een stedelijke raad. Door Stan Majoor, lector Grootstedelijke Vraagstukken en coördinator van speerpunt ...
Presentation on the measurement of treatment integrity. How do these measurements take place? And how do you develop an instrument to measure treatment integrity? Pauline Goense explains during the 2nd Biennal ...
Collecting local memories on-line is a growing practice with participatory elements on different levels. Three levels of participation – micro, meso and macro – are introduced by describing an exemplary ...
