Bertjan Doosje is an associate professor at the UvA and held the Frank Buijs Chair on Radicalization Studies from 2012 to 2019, financed by the…
Laura SpringerSeptember 11, 2024
More than a month ago, the University of Amsterdam announced the opening of a humanitarian fund to support students and academics affected by the disaster…
Laura SpringerApril 15, 2024
In conversations with friends about our definition of love, I realised that most of us grew up with the idea that love was something that…
Laura SpringerFebruary 9, 2024
Did you also finally find housing? No, I’m still looking so if you hear anything, could you let me know? This is a conversation most…
Laura SpringerNovember 3, 2023
In December 2022, along with many other students, I signed a petition from the University Rebellion UvA which demanded that the UvA cut their ties…
Laura SpringerSeptember 6, 2023
A few months ago, I came home late in the evening from a busy day – I had gone to work early in the morning,…
Laura SpringerMay 29, 2023
It’s finally getting warmer and we are all excited to sit on the terraces of our favourite restaurants and bars again - either with an…
Laura SpringerMay 18, 2023
Where and how should we make the big changes? Where and how should we make the big changes? Photo by Tobias Rademacher on Unsplash Photo…
Laura SpringerApril 17, 2023
A couple of weeks ago, on my way to university, I encountered an old man on the tram who was asking for directions to Roeterseiland…
Laura SpringerMarch 21, 2023
For this issue, we would like to dedicate our Words to Start to one of the deadliest earthquakes of the last century and ways you…
Laura SpringerFebruary 15, 2023
According to the Cambridge Dictionary, the term pride describes a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction someone feels when they, or people connected with them, have…
Laura SpringerJanuary 25, 2023
This issue of the Spiegeloog is dedicated to Pride which automatically makes me think of the queer community. While looking for poems about pride, I…
Laura SpringerJanuary 11, 2023
A couple of weeks ago, the guy I was seeing and I tried to figure out what we wanted to watch. He didn’t have anything…
Laura SpringerDecember 21, 2022
Persepolis is an autobiographical series by Marjane Satrapi, depicting her childhood and adolescence in Iran and Austria, during and after the Islamic Revolution. The following…
Laura SpringerNovember 15, 2022
Anushka, one of our editors in chief, recommended an APA podcast on friendships. In the podcast, we learn that friendships come about when people engage…
Laura SpringerNovember 11, 2022
Dylan Molenaar is an assistant professor in the Psychological Methods department. He did his bachelor’s, research master’s, PhD, and Postdoc1 in Psychology at the UvA.…
Laura SpringerOctober 26, 2022
If the #MeToo movement has highlighted one thing, it’s that sexual violence takes place in every sphere of our lives - even on campus at…
Laura SpringerSeptember 16, 2022
The Corridor is a column that usually introduces two students including their name and picture. However, the current column will be different as we will…
Laura SpringerJune 10, 2022
Astrid Homan is a member of the Work and Organisational Psychology department. Her research focuses on teams, especially diverse teams. She investigates how organisations can…
Laura SpringerJanuary 14, 2022
Home is often linked to a place you feel comfortable, the house and city you grew up in, your family, friends and country of origin.…
Laura SpringerDecember 8, 2021
For this issue of the Spiegeloog, instead of asking two psychology students about what makes them happy, I thought it would be nice to ask…
Laura SpringerMay 24, 2021
When confronted with the word ‘rainbow’, my associate network immediately brings the LGBTQ+ community to mind. And because I know some wonderful people whose story…
Laura SpringerMarch 31, 2021
With the closing of the UvA in March, students had to decide whether they would stay in Amsterdam or temporarily move back home. Those who…
Laura SpringerFebruary 15, 2021
Frenk van Harreveld has been appointed as the new director of the Psychology Research Institute, succeeding Han van der Maas. We congratulated him on his…
Laura SpringerNovember 30, 2020