UCM Marble

Dear researchers, the MaRBLe projects for the upcoming semester are finally finalized! Check 'em out here:
https://www.methodslab.nl/2021/11/04/marble-projects-2021-2022-semester-2/

This project focuses on understanding the political drivers for adaptive social protection. The general aim of Adaptive Social Protection is to mitigate the potential of disasters in risk-prone communities and reduce the vulnerability of poor people to shocks by strengthening the climate and disaster focus in social protection programming.

Interested? Check out Maria Klara Kuss' MaRBLe project "The politics of climate-smart social protection - Can we achieve the SDGs?". Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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First-generation students are those who come from a background where they are the first in their family to enter university education. These students often encounter specific barriers during their studies, and in their later academic life. They often feel more insecure, and struggle with a cultural gap between their family backgrounds and university life.

Inge Melchior and Jeroen Moes' MaRBLe project "Learning from First-Generation Academics: Social Inequality and Cultural Capital at Maastricht University" examines these and many other topics. Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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The project analyses the perceptions of the deservingness of refugees to receive social protection in a range of welfare regimes in Europe. It thus aims at critically reviewing the social protection systems and the discourses about the deserving and undeserving of refugees to access social protection.

Interested? Check out Maria Klara Kuss' MaRBLe project "Social protection for refugees in Europe: Who decides what is fair?". Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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The Neighbourhoods in Transition project broadly speaking aims to study specific neighbourhoods in Maastricht that are in some form of transition due to pressures resulting from changes in composition (migration, student populations), changes in space & place (urban developments and infrastructure), or both. The ambition now is to move towards publishable output for this project.

Interested? Check out Jeroen Moes' MaRBLe project "Neighbourhoods in Transition: Space, Place, Gentrification, and Social Inequality". Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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Financial Inclusion for Sanitation and Health in Kenya (FINISH-INK) is a five-year project financed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the Sustainable Water Fund (FDW). It wants to stimulate sustainable economic growth by increasing developing indicators through enhancing the health status of communities.

Christine Gutekunst's MaRBLe project "Financial Inclusion for Sanitation and Health in Kenya" examines these and many other topics. Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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One prominent feature of contemporary politics in western societies is the rise of the radical right. Labels such as the ‘alt right’ or ‘new nationalism’ suggest that these are new movements taking old ideas for another spin. Others have argued that this is simply fascism that has been submerged for decades and has rediscovered its self-confidence.

Jeroen Moes' MaRBLe project "The Alt-Right Pipeline" examines these and many other topics. Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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Conventional sources of meaning have lost their value for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of them to search for alternative sources of meaning. These alternative sources of meaning often combine secular and religious methods and theories from Eastern and Western traditions. The "New Age movement" is a typical example of this.

Dave Vliegenthart's MaRBLe project "Deconstructing Contemporary Spirituality" examines these and many other topics. Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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What is political polarization, and what are its consequences at societal level? Does party polarization influence voters’ polarization?

Luana Russo's MaRBLe project "Political Polarization" examines these and many other questions. Read more about it and all of the other projects at: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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There are 8 MaRBLe projects on offer for next semester. Check them out here: https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/

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There are seven new MaRBLe projects for the Fall Semester, and they are all online now. Check them out!

https://fhs.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ucm-forms/skills/research-based-learning/marble/ (you'll need a VPN connection to see this and sign up)

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