Out-of-school science educational activities, such as school visits to a science center, aim at stimulating pupils’ science talent. Science talent is a developmental potential that takes the form of talented behaviors such as curiosity and conceptual understanding. This dissertation investigates whether …

The 18th Annual Congress 2016 of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association "How strategic communication shapes value and innovation in society: Let’s Talk Society" http://www.euprera2016.nl/

This formative study introduces DojoIBL, a web-based platform to support collaborative inquiry-based learning processes. By supporting communication and collaboration with new technological affordances, DojoIBL aims at nurturing communities of inquiry. The study elaborates on the theoretical underpinning …

This report shows the online customer journey of Hotel van Oranje. It finds that there are negative touch points with the younger generation and it is leading to customer dissatisfaction of the website. Key recommendations are:  A new responsive website for Hotel van Oranje  Monitoring the touchpoints …

Leading Interdisciplinary ConferenceThe Biennial Conference is the leading interdisciplinary conference on regulation and regulatory governance held in Europe, attracting researchers from all over the globe working in a wide range of disciplines including political science, law, accounting, business, …

Engaging people through local initiatives: a discourse analysis on sustainable energy.Sustainable energy forms are seen as one viable answer to reduce global warming. Most countries are in fact struggling to reduce greenhouse gases emissions based on the premise that global warming is caused by man-made …

Content Analysis has been developed within communication science as a technique to analyze bodies of text for features or (recurring) themes, in order to identify cultural indicators, societal trends and issues. And while Content Analysis has seen a tremendous uptake across scientific disciplines, the …

Presentation of conference paper: “The effect of personalization and message framing on marketing communication processing and response”

The present research investigates how the IPCC’s Working Groups safeguard their scientific character while communicating with policymakers. Due to the different nature of Working Groups’ assessments, all Working Groups make different boundary arrangements of how science is defined; what is considered …