Award winners 2010
Several members of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences' staff and students have been awarded grants and prizes to encourage their work, research and study performances.
- Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
- Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Education and Child Studies, was awarded a Vici grant for her research project 'Tailor-made child-raising support'. The Vici grant is aimed at highly experienced researchers who have successfully demonstrated the ability to develop their own innovative line of research and who can act as a coach for young researchers. Vici offers the researcher the opportunity to build up his or her own research group.
- Herman van Gunsteren
- Herman van Gunsteren, Political Science, was presented with the Thorbecke medal in recognition of his entire oeuvre.
- Rivke Jaffe
- Rivke Jaffe, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, was awarded the Casimir Award for the best teacher of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Rivke Jaffe knows how to challenge students from all levels to think critically, and at the same time manages to excite their enthusiasm for the study of Cultural Anthropology. The great sense of humour apparent in her teaching style makes her a very popular teacher, as does her spontaneous and amusing way of stimulating her students to open their ears. Rivke Jaffe is often asked to give talks and lectures, and in principle accepts all invitations.
- Carien Nelissen
- Carien Nelissen was awarded the Administrative and Supportive Staff award (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences). Carien Nelissen pulled off a major achievement in 2009: the realisation of the Education in Primary Schools Bachelor programme (in Dutch: Academische Pabo), together with the Hogeschool Leiden and the Thomas More College in Rotterdam. This new course programme has been put on the rails within a very short time -- less than a year. Carien Nelissen managed to organize everything perfectly, with much attention to detail and decorum.
- Niki Vorselaars
- Niki Vorselaars, who studied Political Science, was awarded the Master Thesis Award for her thesis: 'The Dutch Government and the Economic Crisis: Not Guilty but also not Innocent? The Atribution of Economic Responsibility and the Evaluation of Economic Policies in a Multiparty system’. The thesis is on an interesting subject with a high social relevance: it analyzes the effects of the current economic crisis on the fate of political parties. Thus, it adds a strong, individual and creative contribution to the existing literature on economic voting behaviour.
