Publications

Use characteristics and harm potential of ecstasy in The Netherlands

Introduction: Ecstasy (MDMA) is a popular recreational drug, but its illegal production and trade in the Netherlands have developed into a serious public order and ecological problem which endanger and question the ...

The girls work method: what is the role of empowerment in building girls’ agency?

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 ...

Wastewater management by citizens

<p>Self-organisation in environmental service delivery is increasingly being promoted as an alternative to centralised service delivery. This article argues that self-organised environmental service delivery ...

The contribution of professional youth work to the development of socially vulnerable youngsters

The central question in this study is how, for whom, and under which conditions professional youth work contributes to the personal development of socially vulnerable youngsters, the reinforcement of their social ...

Action research in the city

Richting een minder geïndividualiseerd 'samen'

“Dus de maatregelen waren goed, maar ons gedrag niet?”, vroeg een journaliste tijdens de coronapersconferentie van 13 oktober aan premier Rutte. Veel verder dan ‘we hebben het samen niet goed genoeg ...

Lachgasgebruik bij jongeren met een niet-westerse migratieachtergrond

Het recreatief gebruik van lachgas is populair en het aantal jongeren dat wel eens lachgas gebruikt neemt sinds 2016 toe. In 2019 had 10% van de scholieren (12-16 jaar) ooit lachgas gebruikt. Onder scholieren met een ...

Shaping energy norms in digital communities

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 ...

Picture your Story – Foundation Bricks

Applying psychological concepts to assist the uptake of eHUBs

In this note, we present ten recommendations to stimulate the uptake of eHUBs based on psychological concepts. These recommendations are translated into specific actions that cities can undertake to promote the ...

Introduction

Urban consumption spaces as living labs

Many cities are facing challenges in finding an equilibrium in the use of urban consumption spaces. Urban consumption spaces comprise different sociospatial relationships, bringing together work, consumption, ...

Unpacking Energy Needs

Towards Energy Citizenship for a Just and Inclusive Transition: Lessons Learned on Collaborative Approach of Positive Energy Districts from the EU Horizon2020 Smart Cities and Communities Projects

To achieve the “well below 2 degrees” targets, a new ecosystem needs to be defined where citizens become more active, co-managing with relevant stakeholders, the government, and third parties. This means ...

The implications of self-build for the social and spatial shape of city-regions

Co-creation in urban Living Labs

This paper analyses co-creation in urban living labs through a multi-level network perspective on system innovation. We draw on the case House of Skills, a large, multi-stakeholder living lab aimed at developing a ...

Conclusion

Cross-Sector Partnerships for Sustainability: How Mission-Driven Conveners Drive Change in National Coffee Platforms

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 ...

Living labs for the urban commons

This paper describes how an urban commons is established on the Amsterdam market square Plein ’40-’45, to explain how an experimental learning environment can be a living lab for improving collaborative ...

The Self-Build Experience

Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-builing for low- and middle-income groups in urban ...

From efficiency to reduction

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 ...

Rule-Based Systems for Decision Support and Decision-Making in Dutch Legal Practice. A Brief Overview of Applications and Implications

Rule-based systems for decision support and decision-making play an important role in Dutch legal practice. Government agencies use rule-based systems for (mass) legal decision-making. Legal departments, law firms, ...

Informal caregivers’ judgements on sharing care with home care professionals from an intersectional perspective: the influence of personal and situational characteristics

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.

The development of agency in professional youth work with girls and young women in the Netherlands

To use or not to use: shared mobility for emission-free cities

Cities anticipate a growing need for mobility. However, physical space in a city is limited. Cities are faced with the challenging task of keeping cities accessible and liveable (clean air), making the best possible ...

The responsibilization of entrepreneurs in legalized local prostitution in the Netherlands

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 ...

The role of social environment in acquiring agency in Girls Work

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 ...

The obligation to volunteer as fair reciprocity? Welfare recipients’ perceptions of giving back to society

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 ...

Contract Automation: Experiences from Dutch Legal Practice

Organizations in legal practice, under pressure to do “more for less,” are searching for ways to automate legal work, to improve efficiency of legal service delivery. Automated drafting of contracts (or: ...

Negotiating consent in neighbourhood-based community development work

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 ...

Art in social work practice

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 ...

Circulair wood for the neighbourhood

Since 2016, the Amsterdam Dapperbuurt in the East of Amsterdam, has its own Zero Waste Lab (ZWL), a collection and recycle centre for separated household waste. Drawing on the specific case of wood as a waste-stream, ...

Informal caregivers’ views on the division of responsibilities between themselves and professionals

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 ...

Social street work: An substantiated explanation model of methodic acting

Within Northwest European Welfare states, there is a growing need for all social work professions to substantiate their work with research.

Effective Reflection

This is a manual on ‘Selecting, Training and Supporting Supervisors’. This manual provides points of reference for making a considered choice in the selection, training and support of supervisors in ...

Discussing sexuality in the classroom

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 ...

Youth work and prevention: a conceptual framework in the Netherlands

Professional youth workers and their organizations pursue further improvement of quality and transparency in their work.

Girls’ work

Girls’ work: (How) does it contribute to the agency of girls in vulnerable circumstances?

Safeguarding Young People in Care

Supporting a healthy sexual development of children and young people growing up in residential and foster care.

Heterogeneity in Response during Multisystemic Therapy: Exploring Subgroups and Predictors

Multiple studies have shown that Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is, at group level, an effective treatment for adolescents showing serious externalizing problem behavior.

Collaborative learning in local partnerships for public value

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 ...

De 'governmentality' van een lokaal prostitutieveld?

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 ...

Quality of care in the intensive care unit from the perspective of patient's relatives

<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 ...

Playfully towards new relations

Dit is de Engelstalige versie van de publicatie 'spelenderwijs naar nieuwe verhoudingen'.

Community Care and the care transition in The Netherlands

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 ...

Look to the moon

A legal department’s objective is to support an organization in reaching its objectives, by seizing legal opportunity whenever possible and identifying and mitigating legal risks intelligently. To do this ...

Practice-oriented research in the Dutch social care field – an urgent challenge

Rick Kwekkeboom wrote this article in April 2016. It was then published in "Der pädagogische Blick", 24. Jg. 2016.

Collective digital citizenship trough local memory websites

Collective digital citizenship through local memory websites

Big is beautiful?

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 ...

Rapportage project Vernieuwing Medezeggenschap

“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 ...

Delivery of an intervention: A framework for the measurement of treatment integrity

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 ...

Evolving empowerment in an online community collection memories of Amsterdam East

In this article we study the evolvement of empowering and dis-empowering aspects of a local memory website, initiated by the Amsterdam Museum and currently active for more than a decade. The results partly fill a gap ...

Humanoid mindset

Het lectoraat Management van Cultuurverandering, een onderzoeksgroep van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam, legt zich onder andere toe op theorievorming rond organisatieculturen. Onderdeel daarvan is onderzoek doen naar ...

Multilevel participation within on-line collections of local memories as a practice of cultural citizenship

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 ...