Research projects
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Critical AI Literacy (CAIL)
Critical AI literacy is crucial for our world, as AI applications rapidly spread across society. In this project, we educate students, education professionals, and the public on how uncritical AI adoption causes harm and what steps can minimize it.
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Alcohol Use in Dutch University Students
This project aims to understand students' drinking motives and investigates (bidirectional) relationships of alcohol use with academic achievement and mental well-being. It uses the longitudinal Healthy Student Life dataset.
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Transition from secondary education to higher education
uu77 offers activities for secondary school students and prospective university students. This study examined how these activities support students’ transition to university.
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SOSIAL
In this project, the IkPas intervention (one month of no alcohol) will be adjusted to better fit with the social context of students. This will help lower social drinking norms and reduce excessive alcohol consumption among students
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School en Omgeving
This project studies the "School en Omgeving" programme in collaboration with three schools. In this programme, pupils participate in a variety of extracurricular activities outside school hours.
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Physical literacy with Developmental Coordination Disorder
People with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) often struggle with physical activity due to motor difficulties, reducing confidence and participation. This study examines physical literacy's impact on activity in DCD individuals.
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Promoting Physical Activity in Children Aged 2-6 years
Longitudinal study examining how physical activity patterns change as children begin primary school, and associations with motor skills and the social environment.
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The Usability of Exergames to Promote Active Living and Participation among Adolescents with Developmental Coordination Disorder
This project explores whether exergames—video games requiring physical movement—can help adolescents with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) reduce sedentary behavior and achieve recommended activity levels for improved health.
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Children's Self-Assessment During Creative Problem Solving
This project explores how children's self-assessment during creative problem solving differs and can be explained from learner characteristics. Teacher interventions will be developed to improve children’s self-assessment accuracy.
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Supporting the Transfer of Computational Thinking in Primary School
This research project explores how primary students can transfer computational thinking from programming to other subjects, like mathematics.
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Young adolescents' social development in relation to digital media
This project aims to gain insight into how digital media use, key persons and individual differences affect the social development of young adolescents' in the age of 12 to 14.
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Exposure to Alcohol-Free Drink Advertisements
This project investigates the exposure and impact of alcohol-free drink advertisements on young people's alcohol consumption, aiming to develop policy and guidelines for responsible alcohol-free advertising.
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Mind the Gap
The 'Mind the Gap' research project contributes to increasing insights around recognising and aligning with the educational and support needs of (presumably) twice-exceptional students.
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Unhealthy eating in young adults
This project investigates factors affecting eating behaviours, such as stress, physical activity, and BMI. Additionally, this project seeks to design interventions targeting food cravings and unhealthy eating behaviours.
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G(F)OOD together (corona-)project
Survey waves were administered among adolescents and their parents both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to gain insight into how friends and parents influence adolescents' mental health and lifestyle.
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Green Gen Z
Climate change is a global crisis. Many adolescents and young adults are concerned about their future. How is the climate crisis affecting youth? And (how) are they trying to live sustainably?
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The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on University Students’ Mental Health.
A PhD project on the associations between internet/social media use and university students’ mental health, using the longitudinal Healthy Student Life dataset and additional data regarding social media use.
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Lifestyle and Well-being of University Students
Healthy Student Life is a Radboud-wide research project on student well-being.
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The cognitive development of young children in relation to digital media
The goal of this project is to gain insight into how digital media use, key persons and children's individual dispositions affect children's cognitive development.
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Aiming for equality of educational opportunities
In this project, it is explored how various educational actors address inequality of opportunities in education, and we investigate whether a 'serious policy game' can contribute to improved collaboration.