A Personal Network Perspective on Transnational Social Protection Research on the cross-border practices underpin the spatial dimension of personal relationships highlighting that many individuals and their personal networks are not situated within one single nation-state over their life course. Having personal ties scattered across a variety of locations has implications on the resources one can…

What else could context possibly be? Expanding social psychological definitions of context through the study of racial identity construction In the field of Social Psychology, race has been said to be socially constructed at the level of both individuals and groups. In my social psychological research, I examine how different socio-political contexts influence the construction…

Een evaluatiestudie uitgevoerd door Ghislaine Jordans en Dr. Tobias Stark laat zien dat het programma Welkom In Mijn Wijk een positieve bijdrage levert aan burgerschapsvaardigheden van basisschoolleerlingen. Lees hier het volledige rapport.

How do children understand exclusion in socio-cultural contexts? Children’s negotiation of their understanding of peer and institutional exclusion occur within a socio-cultural context. In this talk, I will attempt to integrate Social Reasoning Developmental theory (Killen & Rutland, 2011) with socio-cultural theories (Vygotsky, 1978; Rogoff, 1990). To do this, I will discuss research on children’s…