Twee transities hebben het werk van de sociale professionals radicaal veranderd.1 De overgang van Nederland als een verzorgingsstaat naar een participatiemaatschappij en een strenger migratiebeleid.2 De vraag welke consequenties deze ontwikkelingen hebben voor de participatie van niet-westerse migrantengezinnen3 …

Leerlingen moeten zich veilig voelen in de klas, tijdens burgerschapsonderwijs is dat vanwege gevoelige onderwerpen extra belangrijk. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat leerlingen met een migratieachtergrond zich relatief vaker onveilig voelen op school en in de klas. Dat komt door een mismatch in een superdiverse …

Leerlingen moeten zich veilig voelen in de klas, tijdens burgerschapsonderwijs is dat vanwege gevoelige onderwerpen extra belangrijk. Uit onderzoek blijkt dat leerlingen met een migratieachtergrond zich relatief vaker onveilig voelen op school en in de klas. Dat komt door een mismatch in een superdiverse …

The use of wireless acoustic sensor networks (WASNs) has received increased attention over the last decade. The advantages of WASNs over stand-alone multi-microphone devices are that the microphone array is not anymore limited by the dimensions of a single device, and that microphones can be placed at …

The purpose of this article is to explore innovative and adaptive ways of matching people with jobs in the context of a Dutch policy initiative aimed at the skills mismatch in the region of Amsterdam. This is an important and urgent issue because of the challenges of the future labor market, in which …

Background: The strain on health care services is increasing due to an ageing population and the increasing prevalence of chronic health conditions. eHealth could contribute to optimise effective and efficient care to older adults with one or more chronic health conditions in the general practice. Aim: …

Dogs have for long been humans’ best friend, but the human–dog relationship can be problematic. A mismatch between dogs and their keepers can lead to welfare problems for both; for example: breeding for a specific look can result in health and welfare problems and importing dogs from other countries …

The global shortages of nurses require a closer look at why nursing students stop in the later years of their degree programme. The purpose of this study is to explore nursing students' experiences and reasons that lead to this late dropout. Semi-structured interviews were held in 2017 with eleven former …

Like many public sector organizations, in the past decades the Dutch judiciary has come to adopt New Public Management (NPM) practices and processes. In this article, we analyze this adoption from a management and organizational control perspective. Using data from a large survey among Dutch judges, …

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) has major public health implications, and underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Sensorimotor incongruence (SMI)—an ongoing mismatch between top-down motor output and predicted sensory feedback—may play a role in the course of chronic nonspecific low back pain. The hypothesis …