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Hannah Pallubinsky NUTRIM Researcher in the Daily Mail, January 16 2024

Mail Online explores why turning your heating down a notch — for short, fixed periods — could overhaul your health. 

We're excited to announce that the first episode of our brand-new podcast “Alice in Eduland” is on air!

What happens in the brain of someone with a neurodevelopmental condition? Eleonora Broggi, an alumna of the bachelor Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University, is investigating brain patterns in autistic people at King’s College London. Read how Eleonora uses Biomedical Sciences for her career in neuroscience and drug development.

For the first time in the history of Maastricht University, an honorary doctorate will be awarded to a married couple: Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks. Together, the professors devised and developed the concept of multilevel governance, which they have been championing for more than 30 years. “We’re very happy with this honorary doctorate. Especially when we found out who received it before us—it’s great to be included in such a prestigious list.”

Can neurofeedback help police recruits become more psychologically resilient? In its search for an answer, the Special Intervention Service of the Central Unit of the Netherlands Police approached Andreas Bressler, PhD candidate in cognitive neuroscience. His research focuses on improving emotion regulation and attention through neurofeedback techniques. “This is the first study in the world to examine how neurofeedback can support people operating in high-performance situations.”

With the increasing temperature records and escalating frequency and intensity of weather extremes, the urgency of climate mitigation cannot be overstated (IPCC, 2022). In my master's thesis, I researched the impact of chocolate companies implementing Scope-3 emissions reduction strategies on the management of their cocoa supply chains. Specifically, I explored how these strategies could influence the livelihoods of smallholder cocoa farmers in the Global South. In the subsequent sections, I will provide a summary of my key findings and present interesting ideas related to climate mitigation within the chocolate sector.

Two year (two 2,5 day modules per year (spring and fall)) Public Health and Care Research Leadership Programme starting on July 8th 2024 in Cambridge.

PhD thesis written by Jiska Jonas
Victim-offender mediation (VOM) in criminal cases is a growing judicial practice in Europe and abroad. In VOM victim and offender have a conversation in presence of a trained mediator. This process can help victims to recover and offenders to take responsibility, make amends and decrease their risk of reoffending. Despite the demonstrated favorable link between VOM and recidivism, no empirical research exists that has addressed why and how participation in VOM reduces reoffending compared to non-participation. This dissertation aimed to open this ‘black-box’ of victim offender mediation and to unravel how and why participation in mediation is related to a lower risk of reoffending. It examined if participation in Dutch mediation practices is related to a lower risk of reoffending, which psychological change might underly this behavior change and which elements of mediation might explain these outcomes.

How can we help employees to fulfil their potential? And how can we do this in a way that is sustainable for both employees and organizations? Recently, I started a new professorship at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at SBE to address these questions, together with various stakeholders in science, policy, and practice. In this blog, I describe why these questions are important, and how a Positive Health approach can help us to answer them.

EDLAB is pleased to announce the 12 new education innovation projects that have received an EDLAB education grant for 2024.