As a consequence of climate change and urbanization, many cities will have to deal with more flooding and extreme heat stress. This paper presents a framework to maximize the effectiveness of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for flood risk reduction and thermal comfort enhancement. The framework involves …

Stress komt veel voor onder studenten, evenals studievertraging en -uitval (Adams, Meyers en Beidas, 2016). Dit afstudeeronderzoek richt zich op het beschrijven van de relatie tussen stress en studiesucces onder eerste- en tweedejaars Toegepaste Psychologie (TP) en Social Work (SW) studenten van Hogeschool …

Presentatie op het 9e Supporting Health by Technology congres in Martiniplaza, Groningen.

Occupational stress can cause all kinds of health problems. Resilience interventions that help employees deal with and adapt to adverse events can prevent these negative consequences. Due to advances in sensor technology and smartphone applications, relatively unobtrusive self-monitoring of resilience-related …

This project started with a fascination by the concept of ‘feeling at home’. How does that work for homeless who don’t have a physical space to call home? To me, my role as an architect is to put social issues on the agenda and investigate spatial circular solutions. Even in our modern society, homelessness …

This article explores which tensions teachers experience during one year of participation in a professional learning community (PLC). Tensions are more or less temporal negative feelings of stress, loss of self-efficacy or anxiety caused by conflicting personal features and workplace affordances. A qualitative …

Background: The emphasis on impact factors and the quantity of publications intensifies competition between researchers. This competition was traditionally considered an incentive to produce high-quality work, but there are unwanted side-effects of this competition like publication pressure. To measure …

Since it is insufficiently clear to urban planners in the Netherlands to what extent design measures can reduce heat stress and which urban spaces are most comfortable, this study evaluates the impact of shading, urban water, and urban green on the thermal comfort of urban spaces during hot summer afternoons. …

Op donderdag 8 november staat IT Academy colleges in het teken van gepersonaliseerde digitale gezondheid. Het college wordt verzorgd in samenwerking met het Lectoraat Personalized Digital Health (PDH) van de Hanzehogeschool Groningen. Lector dr. Hilbrand Oldenhuis en promovendus Herman de Vries bespreken …

Muziektherapie in ziekenhuizen is in Nederland nog een relatief nieuw begrip. Momenteel is muziektherapie op kinder- en kraamafdelingen in ziekenhuizen weinig tot niet aanwezig. Er worden muzikale activiteiten georganiseerd op kinderafdelingen, maar het therapeutische gedeelte ontbreekt. In landen zoals …