Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology

In the coming weeks, this list of available PhD vacancies at ICS departments (RUG/UU/UvA/RU) will be updated regularly.

Afscheidscollege prof. dr. P. Scheepers

Inaugural Lecture by Jochem Tolsma

Social divisions in the Netherlands are growing: more and more, we find ourselves in bubbles of people who resemble us.

Books by ICS members (2022)

Several ICS members wrote books in 2022

NWO Stevin Prize for Tanja van der Lippe

Lazarsfeld award of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association for Tom Snijders

Tom Snijders (Honorary Professor RUG & Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, UK) received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld award

NWO Vidi Grants for 2 ICS researchers: Fenella Fleischmann (UvA) & Zoltán Lippényi (UG)

ERC Starting Grant for Valentina Di Stasio

Research proposal 'TARGETS - What Makes People TARGETS: A Multi-Actor Study of How Ethnic Discrimination Is Perceived, Tackled and Avoided' awarded

NWO VIDI Grant for Gert Stulp

Research proposal 'Understanding fertility outcomes by quantifying the (un)predictable' funded

SOCION: 30 million euros for social cohesion research

The SOCION consortium, in which social sciences and humanities researchers from five different knowledge institutions are conducting research on social cohesion, has secured a €30 million Summit Grant

ERC Starting Grant for research on how work careers develop – by Thijs Bol

Thijs Bol (associate professor UvA) received an ERC Starting Grant (€1,5 million) for his project From School to Career: Towards A Career Perspective on the Labour Market Returns to Education

Books by ICS members

ICS members Frank van Tubergen, Vincent Buskens & Rense Corten, and Tanja van der Lippe published interesting books

Founding Father ICS Reinhard Wippler passed away

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Wippler (1931-2020), one of the founders of the ICS Graduate School, passed away.

2 awards for article “The Matthew Effect in Science Funding”

Thijs Bol (Associate Professor UvA), Mathijs de Vaan and Arnout van de Rijt (Professor UU) received two awards for their paper “The Matthew Effect in Science Funding”

VENI Grant for Liliya Leopold (UvA)

Liliya Leopold (Postdoc UvA) received an NWO grant for her project ‘Social Norms, Body Weight, and Well-Being: A Multi-Method Comparison of Germany, Korea, the Netherlands, and the United States'

VICI grant for Anne-Rigt Poortman

Anne-Rigt Poortman (UU, 1996) received an NWO VICI Grant for her project ‘Postdivorce family diversity and outcomes for children and parents’