Samen met DOCK Haarlem en Haarlem Effect onderzochten wij vanuit het Kennisplatform Sociaal Domein Noord-Holland wat de COVID-19 crisis heeft betekend voor de uitvoering van het sociaal werk in Haarlem. Het onderzoek laat zien dat de sociaal werkers van DOCK Haarlem en Haarlem Effect tijdens de COVID-19-periode …

The current COVID-19 pandemic confines people to their homes, disrupting the fragile social fabric of deprived neighbourhoods and citizen’s participation options. In deprived neighbourhoods, community engagement is central in building community resilience, an important resource for health and a prerequisite …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are suffering heavily from the Covid 19 pandemic. Pincode Telenet International (PTI) is a small company providing software solutions to the utility sector in the Netherlands. Its revenue depends entirely on outsourcing contracts given by utility providers. When …

Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic engagement …

In March 2020 schools in The Netherlands closed to contain the spread of Covid-19 virus. Shortly after, schools took to online education. The condensed setting of the Covid-19 situation provided a background to study which learning activities and tools teachers choose in online education and how they …

This thesis focuses on the factors that increase the likelihood for restaurant owners in The Netherlands to survive the COVID-19 Pandemic. What are the effective strategies restaurant owners should consider. A Creative Crisis Plan is created

Cut, cooled, packed, transported and traded all over the world, flowers represent a showcase of a worldwide integrated trade-logistics system. As one of the most perishable, vulnerable and time-critical products, speed is everything in harvesting, moving and trading of flowers. In the international trade …

Background Evidence about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on existing health inequalities is emerging. This study explored differences in mental health, sense of coherence (SOC), sense of community coherence (SOCC), sense of national coherence (SONC), and social support between low and high socioeconomic …

The current Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of urban public spaces in achieving health and social well-being (Dobson, 2021; Poortinga et al., 2021), prompting policymakers and urban planners to rethink their approach to the design of these spaces. They now propagate adapting urban public …

Deze editie van de monitor laat allereerst de ontwikkeling zien van het aantal banen en bedrijven in de Nederlandse creatieve industrie en ICT-sector aan de hand van de LISA-dataset waarin data tot en met april 2020 beschikbaar waren. Ook de analyse van het belang van de top 10 steden in creatieve industrie …