Live blogs are a popular format for covering crises, breaking news, politics, or sports events. Despite their popularity among journalists and the public, the format has also been subject to scholarly debate regarding the conflict between immediacy versus credibility, resulting in a high degree of uncertainty …

This entry starts with a chronological discussion of the different conceptualizations of work-family balance over time. Where pioneering studies focused on work-family (and family-work) conflict, more recent studies introduced the concepts of work-family (and family-work) enrichment and more holistic …

Background: Shared decision-making is one key element of interprofessional collaboration. Communication is often considered to be the main reason for inefficient or ineffective collaboration. Little is known about group dynamics in the process of shared decision-making in a team with professionals, including …

In many European cities, urban experimentation is increasingly preferred as a method for testing and disseminating innovations that might ignite a transformation toward more sustainable cities. By both academics and practitioners, these experiments tend to be approached as relatively neutral initiatives …

Van buiten lijken processen voor burgerinspraak vaak geoliede machines, maar in werkelijkheid blijft de leefwereld van wijkbewoners in armere wijken vaak buiten beeld. Dat zeggen lectoren Maja Ročak (Fontys Hogescholen) en Sabrina Keinemans (Zuyd Hogeschool). Zij pleiten voor politisering: stel bewoners …

This paper discusses Spengler’s cultural philosophical interpretation of ethics. Ethics is normally considered as a discipline that argues about good and bad in a manner that applies universally to all. Spengler, however, is a relativist who shows how ethical systems relate to the culture in which they …

Het conflict tussen de Triodos Bank en een groep certificaathouders is een testcase voor duurzaam en maatschappelijk verantwoord bankieren. Het maakt duidelijk hoe het denken over banken vastzit in een marktbenadering. Aandacht ontbreekt voor ethiek, maar ook voor schaalproblemen en maatschappelijk verdienvermogen. …

In deze lezing vertelt Jan van Boeckel over zijn antropologisch onderzoek naar het vermeende conflict in 1986 tussen de Hopi en Navajo-volkeren over een gedeeld stuk grond en dan vooral hoe de media omgingen met dit probleem. Progressieve journalisten en filmmakers schoten de traditionele bevolking te …

Older care recipients living at home increasingly rely on support from informal caregivers. As informal caregivers often combine these caregiving tasks with other tasks, such as paid work, they are at risk of becoming overloaded. To decrease informal caregiver burden, different forms of support are available …

The paper describes the first implementation of the Unified Citizen Engagement Approach (UCEA), a newly developed design-oriented framework for citizen engagement in the energy transition. The preliminary testing and evaluation of several of its pathways in Groningen, the Netherlands, show that the role …