News 2009
December 18
Best Teacher Awards for Karen van Dam en Luc van Baest
During the traditional FSW Christmas Brunch the Best Teacher Awards were announced. Karen van Dam (Dept. SocPsy) has been awarded 'Best teacher for small groups' with her course in Personnel Psychology. Luc van Baest (Dept. MTO) has been awarded 'Best teacher for large groups' with his course MTO-1.
December 17
New Year's Reception
Add this to your diary now: New Year's Reception in the auditorium and auditorium foyer on January 4th 2010, at 16:00 hrs. It is the perfect occasion for students and staff to celebrate the beginning of the New Year together.
After a short speech by the President of the Executive Board, Hein van Oorschot, and the announcement of the 2010 Campus Poet, everyone can enjoy drinks and snacks in the auditorium foyer. For more information send an e-mail to: specialevents@uvt.nl.
December 8
Upgrade Blackboard on Tuesday 15 December
On Tuesday 15 December an upgrade to Blackboard version 8 will take place. Therefore the system will not be available between 7:00 and 9:00 hours in the morning.
It is a minor upgrade. One of the advantages is an improvement of the Gradebook. Furthermore, this upgrade is a prelude to the upgrade to Blackboard Learn 9. In version 8 there are no changes to the main functionalities, and the look-and-feel remains the same.
You can find more information about Blackboard 8 on the Webpages under 'Support for Lecturers' via the Help-button in Blackboard. These pages are also directly available.
For questions about Blackboard please contact the IT Servicedesk of your faculty.
December 8
Lunch Meeting Copenhagen Summit 2009
The next two weeks Copenhagen is the climate centre of the world. At the UN Climate Summit has to be shown to what extent 192 countries are willing to tackle the climate changes together.
On Thursday December 10th 2009, we will reflect on and discuss the problems and expected outcomes of this summit. This takes place in CZ-26 (Cobbenhagen building). Questions which will be discussed:
- How big are the uncertainties we face?
- Should we reduce by 0%, 20%, 50%, or 100%?
- What will the OPEC do when you and I turn 'green'?
- Who should reduce, who should pay?
- Climate first, or poverty first?
- Why don't the US and China want to come on board?
December 7
Colloquium Sociology with Reinhard Pollak
On wednesday December 16th a collouium with Reinhard Pollak takes place. Title: Occupational vs. big class inheritance: The benefit of a disaggregated class perspective for understanding social mobility. Time: 14.00 - 15.30 hrs in WZ-202.
December 7
Colloquium MTO with Gunter Maris
On tuesday December 8th a colloquium MTO with Gunter Maris, CITO, Arnhem and UvA takes place. Title: How to score an exam?. Time: 12.30 hrs in PZ-43.
December 7
Jacques Hagenaars' Farewell conference
We have the privilege of inviting you to prof. Jacques Hagenaars' Farewell
conference.
After an academic career of more than four decades in Tilburg, Jacques will officially retire in March 2010. He will give his valedictory address on Friday, March 5, 2010. One of Jacques' wishes is to meet with all his academic friends to discuss the broad range of topics he has been involved in during his academic career. To fulfill this wish, we are organizing a conference on March 4-5. Click here for the registration form and preliminary conference program.
For the necessary logistics we would like to receive your registration no later than 22 February. Both conference and valedictory address are free of charge. We look forward to meeting you in Tilburg.
December 7
Festive start Double Degree Programme
Last Tuesday the agreement of the Double Degree programme with BI Norwegian School of Management started festively. A delegation of Oslo was present to celebrate the agreement of the Double Degree MSc in Leadership and Organisational Psychology and Organisation Studies with involved teachers en scientists of the departments of Organisation Studies and Human Resource Studies. Read more.
December 7
Faculty council
The faculty council will have a meeting on thursday December 17 at 14.45 pm in room P0.01. You are warmly invited to attend this meeting as a hearer if you are interested in the actual processes of the faculty policy. The agenda and its annexes are available for scanning and can be found at the secretary of the faculty office (P 2.127). Further information can be found here.
December 7
Stapel and Klink first speakers UvT Society
During this first meeting, Ab Klink talked about the role of elites in society. He believes that politics and society need to be reconnected. This, he believes, can be done with the help of charismatic leaders like Merkel, Verhofstadt, Mandela and Obama, who can formulate hopeful solutions for the three main themes of today: integration, aging, and sustainability.
Diederik Stapel director of the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research (TIBER), presented recent findings about implicit and explicit preferences of Dutch constituents. Alleged contradictions between the electorate are much smaller than we think. Social-psychological research shows that those people who like structure and order can be found at the outermost left and right sides of the political spectrum. The supporters of the PVV and SP for example, are very alike in their preference for structure and clarity.
21 novemberNWO Vidi grant for Susanne Pedersen
NWO has decided to award a Vidi grant of 800.000 euro (maximum) to professor Susanne Pedersen for her proposed research entitled The psychological impact of device therapy for the treatment of heart disease. Susanne Pedersen (dept. of Medical and Neuropsychology/CoRPS) carries out internationally recognizable research within the field of cardiac psychology that has the potential to lead to innovations in health care for cardiac patients. Of the 48 Vidi proposals submitted as interdivisional, 7 were successful.
In total NWO awarded 89 research proposals out of 508 requests, of which four were appointed to Tilburg University. See Press release (in Dutch).
13 november
PhD Defence Niels van de Ven: cum laude!
On Friday November 13, Niels van de Ven (SocPsy) defended his PhD thesis The Bright Side of A Deadly Sin: The Psychology of Envy with great success. The committee, headed by his supervisors Rik Pieters and Marcel Zeelenberg (dept. Social Psychology), admired his 'splendid' scientific work and sublime PhD defence' and therefore graduated cum laude.Press release.
November 13
Article De Gelder and Vroomen among the most innovative studies
Recently, Open University Press published Pioneering Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience. This book presents seven studies considered to be "the most innovative, original, and creative studies in cognitive neuroscience from the last 20 years".
One of the studies was conducted at Tilburg University, namely an article in NeuroReport, 'Non-conscious recognition of affect in the absence of striate cortex' by Beatrice de Gelder, Jean Vroomen, Gilles Pourtois and Larry Weiskrantz (vol. 10, nr.18: 3759-63).The authors of the seven studies are described as 'renowned in their field for producing intelligent an innovative research, and together they cover each of the main sub-disciplines of cognitive neuroscience. By illustrating the scope of creativity that exists in the process of experimental design, the authors encourage the reader to innovate and design creative approaches to experiments that address major theoretical issues or solve specific problems. This is important reading for students of psychology and cognitive neuroscience'.
November 10
Social Sciences in European Top 10 Shanghai-ranking
In the Shanghai based Social Science 2009 watch, Tilburg University achieved a well-deserved leading position among European Universities. This influential institute Academic Ranking of the World Universities in Social Science 2009 (ARWU) uses the following indicators to evaluate the universities: highly cited researchers (consideration factor 25%), articles indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) (consideration factor 25%), Nobel Prize winners amongst staff members (consideration factor 15%), alumni (consideration factor 10%) and the percentage of articles published in the top 20% journals of each field (consideration factor 25%).
According to ARWU the leading European universities specialising in Social Sciences are the following (between brackets the world rank):
1. (16) University of Cambridge [UK]
2. (17) University of Oxford [UK]
3. (25) London School of Economics and Political Science [UK]
4-7. (52-75) University College London [UK]
4-7. (52-75) University of Amsterdam [NL]
4-7. (52-75) University of Copenhagen [DK]
4-7. (52-75) University of Warwick [UK]
8-18. (76-100) Tilburg University [NL]
8-18. (76-100) Erasmus University Rotterdam [NL]
8-18. (76-100) VU University Amsterdam [NL]
8-18. (76-100) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain) [B]
8-18. (76-100) London Business School [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of Edinburgh [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of Manchester [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of Bristol [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of East Anglia [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of Nottingham [UK]
8-18. (76-100) University of Oslo [N]
The world ranking list is currently dominated by well-known American institutes like Harvard, Chicago, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, MIT and Columbia.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in 2003 by the Centre for World-Class Universities and the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. The Shanghai-ranking now plays a big part in the decision making process of international students. A prominent place in the ARWU is sought after and very beneficial for the reputation of an institutionand can therefore have a positive influence on the internationalisation of Tilburg University.
November 9
Sitskoorn and van Beest on Greed
During the symposium Greed Can we ever be satisfied?, organised by Studium Generale, the concept of greed will be discussed from different views by speakers from neurology, psychology, economics and business. Margriet Sitskoorn will provide a lecture on how greed is manifested in the human brain. A social psychological view on the concept will be provided by Ilja van Beest. Dolf van den Brink will discuss greed and its effects on business in practice, and Kees Cools will present an economic view on greed. Start: 14.30 hour, room DZ 2.
November 9
Faculty council
The faculty council will have a meeting on thursday November 26 at 14.45 pm in room P0.01. You are warmly invited to attend this meeting as a hearer if you are interested in the actual processes of the faculty policy. The agenda and its annexes are available for scanning and can be found at the secretary of the faculty office (P 2.127). Further information can be found here.
November 5
Book: Temporary Organizations
This month the book Temporary Organizations: Prevalence, Logic and Effectiveness has come out at the publishing company Edward Elgar. It has been edited by Patrick Kenis, Martyna Janowicz and Bart Cambré (all working at the department of Organisation Studies).
Temporary organizations are an increasingly prevalent organizational form in which organizations work together on a joint task - for example, a movie production, a rescue operation, development of a new product - for an ex ante limited period of time. This book demonstrates that temporary organizations are increasingly common. It provides insights on how they differ from the classical organization and contributes to our understandingof what makes temporary organizations effective. Beside the editors mentioned above, there are also contributions from the Tilburg Organisation Studies scientists and CIR-researchers Marius Meeus, Leon Oerlemans, JorisKnoben and Patrick Vermeulen.
October 30
Psychology Tilburg in European Excellence Group
Today, the German newspaper Die Zeit published the CHE-ranking of excellent European research groups in Psychology. CHE ExcellenceRanking selected and compared 60 European universities by their results in research and internationalisation indicators.
For this group an institutional survey as well as a student survey was conducted. For outstanding results in any one indicator, a 'star' was awarded. Tilburg received six stars ('top placements') and particularly stands out in scientific output and citations. Nijmegen (7 stars) heads a group of 7 research institutes with six or more stars.
Tilburg also belongs to Europe's leading research groups in Economics, which were evaluated by CHE as well. CHE stands for Centre for Higher Education Development. PDF: Identyfying thebest: CHE-Excellence Ranking
October 26Antillean minister recieves Tranzo report
The Minister of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles, Magali Jacoba (photo right), has recieved the first copy of the pilot study of Chijs van Nieuwenhuizen (Tranzo) on the role of psychological and psychiatric factors of delinquent behaviour by Antillean young people (in Dutch). Dr. Glen Helberg (photo left), Antillean child- and youth psychiatrist at RAAGG Rotterdam-Rijnmond, presented the report to the Antillean minister Jacoba. She emphasized that the survey fits in with her policy ambition to bring this to the notice. The policy must lead to a special Antillean approach for prevention and combat of yought delinquency with adequate sanctionmethods. See also Ocan (in Dutch).
October 16New Simonbuilding on TiasNimbas Parking
The University Board has designated the parking lot of TiasNimbas Business School as the location for the new building of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW). Next month the development plan will be discussed in the University Council. The idea is to open the new Simonbuilding by the end of 2012.
In 2005 Tilburg University named its FSW-building after the American social scientist and psychologist Herbert Simon, who also won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978. Simon died in 2001 at the age of 84.
October 15Marco Tamietto in Scientific American
Scientific American this week paid attention to a publication by Marco Tamietto (dept. Medical and Neuropsychology) on blind people who respond to emotive expression. This new study of people with 'blindsight' suggests that empathy rather than simple mimicry causes us to mirror the emotions of others. Tamietto, together with a.o. Beatrice de Gelder (CoRPS), published their scientific article in the American topjournal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
October 15
Fill in ANR on Exams
Every student at Tilburg University has an ANR number. Both the new EMPLID (MySIS) and the ANR number are printed on their TU card. The ANR number is necessary to record Exam results and also to machine-handle MC-answers.
Students must statetheir ANR on the examination form or mc-form, NOT their Emplid. Instructors are requested to include a remark of this nature on the front of the examination form.
September30
Inaugural addresses Tranzo-Professors
Last friday, September 18th, the inaugural adresses of the professors Roland Friele and Dinny de Bakker took place. Both chairs were established by NIVEL, the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research. For more information, please check Dinny de Bakker or Roland Friele.
September 30
International partners of the CenterforInnovation Researchvisit Tilburg
On October 1 and 2, representatives of CIR's international partner institutes, Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi University) and Bo Nielsen (Copenhagen Business School), among others, will visit Tilburg. Besides a mini-conference featuring presentations by scholars from each of the institutes, the partners will also discuss how to further intensify their collaboration. Up till now, the partnering institutes have joined forces in applying for European research grants and in preparing of an innovation-focused joint summer school in the summer of 2010. Plans will also be made for the possible extension of the current network.
September 29
Tobias Goessling wins Best Paper Award EBEN
Tobias Goessling of the department of Organisation Studies has won the EBEN, European Business Ethics Network, Best Paper Award for the article Towards Shared Social Responsibility. The article is co-authored with Patty Janssen and Toon Bullens. The article will appear in the JoBE, Journal of Business Ethics, in 2010.
September 29
Klaas Sijtsma President-Elect Psychometric Society
During the International Meeting of the Psychometric Society in Cambridge
UK, last July, it was announced that Klaas Sijtsma (MTO) has been elected
President-Elect until July 2010. As from July 2010 till July 2011 Klaas will
serve as President, and from July 2011 until July 2012 as Past President.
The Psychometric Society (founded in 1935) is a non-profit professional organization devoted to the constant improvement of quantitative measurement in psychology, education and the social sciences. Nowadays, the Psychometric Society covers all of applied statistics in the social and behavioral sciences. The Society publishes the prestigious journal Psychometrika with Springer Publishers.
September 14
Stefan Bogaerts keynote speaker at EAPL
Prof. dr. Stefan Bogaerts (Intervict and FSW) was invited as a keynote to speak on the issues of social forensic networks asrisk management instrument for the prevention of sexual violence. He also argued that treatment of sexual offenders concentrates too strongly on competencies in stead of also limitations. Sexual offenders must learn how to live with restrictions and disabilities.
His keynote was at the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), held on 1-5 september 2009 in Sorrento, Italy.
September 14
Aad de Roo member EHMA Board
Aad de Roo, professor of Strategy and Management of Organisaties in Health
Care will be from now on member of the European Health Management Association.
September 9
Gert Westert in British Medical Journal
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an article by Gert Westert (professor of Health Services Research, Tranzo / RIVM) e.o. on their website. In his contribution, entitled The Netherlands: regulated competition behind the dykes, Westertdescribesthe Dutch health care reforms, explains why they were introduced, and discusses early evidence of their effect. The reforms have attracted much interest, not least in the US, because the Dutch are trying to make private insurance work for public benefit. The BMJ is an international peer reviewed medical journal and a fully 'online first' publication. The BMJ publishing model means that all articles appear on bmj.com before being included in an issue of the print journal.
September 8
Diederik Stapel receives SESP Career Award
Diederik Stapel (TIBER) has been awarded the Career Trajectory Award by the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. The award is intended to recognize uniquely creative and influential scholarly productivity at or near the peak of one's scientific career. Previous award winners are Neil Macrae, Barbara Frederickson, and Ap Dijksterhuis. Diederik Stapel will accept the award at this years SESP conference in Portland Maine, USA, at Saturday October 17th. The award will be handed to him by Norbert Schwarz, Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Michigan.
September 7
Research Colloquium OS
| On Tuesday September 8th, the department Organisation Studies organises a Research Colloquium. Speaker: Dr. Grodon Müller-Seitz, University of Berlin. Title: Manoeuvring in Different Types of Networks - Insights from a Longitudinal Case Study in the Semiconductor Industry. Time: 12.45 - 13.45 h in TZ-7. Click here for more information. |
August 26
13th International Workshop On Teamworking
| The 13th International Workshop on Team working (IWOT) will be held at Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands from 10-11 September 2009. More information. |
August 25
New Influenza A (Swine flu)
| The New Influenza A (H1N1), also referred to in the Netherlands as Mexican flu, has been receiving a great deal of media attention. Tilburg University is closely monitoring developments regarding the Mexican flu situation by keeping in touch with the appropriate authorities. Tilburg University has set up a special web page for staff and students with information on the flu, special measures and the procedure for calling in sick. The latest developments can also be followed on this web page. |
August 24
Kim Smolderen MSc wins Young Investigator Award
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Kim Smolderen MSc, has been granted the Young Investigator Award at the Conference Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke (QCOR) ofthe American Heart Association, on 24 April 2009. Read more. |
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Dutch Diabetes Fund grants subsidy to Dr. Ivan Nyklicek
A project will be started this year, funded within the Dutch Diabetes Fund program 'Stem van de Patiënt' ('Voice of the Patient'), aimed at the development and testing of a mindfulness-based intervention tailored to the emotional problems and needs of patients with Type 2 diabetes who report emotional distress. Read more.
Dr. Lonneke van de Poll-Franse receives Cancer Research Award
Dr. Lonneke van dePoll-Franse receives a personal grant (CancerResearch Award) of euro 356.500 from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF) for her research proposal: Information disclosure and cancer survivorship care planning. Read more.
Maintenance BSCW on Wednesday July 22nd
On Wednesday July 22nd technical maintenance is being carried out on BSCW.
Therefore the system may be unavailable several times during the day. We
kindly ask you to pass this message on to everyone invited to your
workspace. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Maintenance Blackboard on Tuesday July 21st
On Tuesday July 21st technical maintenance is being carried out on
Blackboard. Therefore the system will not be available between 17:00 and
19:00 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ZONmw grant for Frans Pouwer
Dr. Frans Pouwer of CoRPS (Center of Reseach on Psychology in Somatic diseases) has been granted an investment subsidy of 459.681 euro from ZONmw for the project Disease management of co-morbid depression (DiMaCoDe) in primary care patients with type 2 diabetes (DM2) and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a randomised controlled trial. Read more.
Speakers: Ruud van Keulen, ReMa student, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Scienses, MTO-track; title: Marginal Models to fit the Actor-Partner Interdependence Modelfor Interchangeable Dyads and Triads and Daniël van der Palm, ReMa student Faculty of Social and Behavioural Scienses, MTO-track; title: Model-fit Assessment of PolytomousIRT Models.Time: at 12.30 h in PZ-43. More information
Date: Tuesday June 23, 2009.
Speaker: Gautam Ahuja, Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and renown for his research on innovation and technology strategy.
Time: 12:45 - 14:15 h in DZ-4. More information.
Tiber Talks: Bertram Gawronski
Speaker: Bertram Gawronski, University of Western Ontario - Canada.
Title: Associative and Propositional Processes in Evaluation: Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying Implicitand Explicit Attitude Change.
Time: 15.00 - 16.00 h in WZ-103. Click here for more information.
Research colloquium HRS
Speaker: Sophie de Winne, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Title: HRM and firm performance: a shift from "what HR should do" to "how HR should do it". Time: 12.45 - 14.00 h in CZ-187
PhillipTully fellow at CoRPS
From 25 May through 12June2009, Phillip Tullywill be a visiting fellow at CoRPS. Phillip is a third year Masters Clinical Psychology and PhD student at the School of Psychology, The University of Adelaide, and Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia, Australia. Read more.
ZonMw grant for Susanne Pedersen
Susanne Pedersen PhD has received a ZonMw grant (Euro 459.999) for the project 'WEB-based distress management program for implantable CARdioverter dEfibrillator patients' (WEBCARE).
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Speaker: Frank Bond (University of London). Title: The effect of psychological flexibility on work design, job performance, and health. Time: 12.45 - 14.00 h in WZ-104.
Speaker: Jelte M. Wicherts, University of Amsterdam.
Title: A critical assessment of national IQ research.
Time: 12.30 h in PZ-43. Read more.
On June 18 and 19, the Department MTO organises the summer congress from research school IOPS. Click here for more information and for the interim programme.
Top innovation scholars in CIR research workshop
On Monday June 29 members of CIR's Scientific Council - Claudia Schoonhoven (University of California at Irwine),
On Friday April 17 2009, Alfonso Gambardella, Professor of Economics and Management van deBocconi University will discuss the effect that the interplay between the generality of the technology and the fragmentation of the product market has on the market for technology.The model is tested on a panel of software security firms. The lecture takes place in DZ-6 from 12.45 hour to 14.15 hour. More information
Asof February 1 Martyna Janowicz-Panjaitan has been appointed Operations Manager of the Center for Innovation Research (CIR). Martyna joins CIR's management team with the primary responsibility for managing CIR's daily operations, organizing special events and implementing new policies.
Saturday March 28 and sunday March 29: no electicity in Prisma Building
Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29 the electricitywill be disconnected in Prisma Building.
You are strongly encouraged to save yourdata en turn off your PC before this weekend, otherwise important data could be lost. Read more.
Karin Gehring wins awards
Karin Gehring has been awarded a prizefor Excellence in Quality of Life Research from the American/international Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) Awards Committee,which has been presented to her by the Sontag Foundation at the SNO Congress in Lake Las Vegas (USA) in November,2008. Read more.