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The proposed project employs a cross-national comparative perspective to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the benefits of marriage for earnings and health. The first aim is to examine the applicability of explanatory models in different national contexts. The second aim is to investigate the gendered nature of the benefits and their dependence on national contexts. The project moves beyond prior work on current marital status by investigating the benefits for people in the full spectrum of marital history. State-of-the-art Bayesian methods will be used to obtain unbiased multilevel coefficients on data from 15 countries.

Public Safety is vital for the functioning of societies: Without safety there is no freedom, no happiness, and no prosperity. The public good of safety matters to all of us, and therefore needs to be jointly shaped and maintained by all societal partners. Data generated by multiple agents play an increasingly important role in the prevention, preparedness and mitigation of harm or disaster. The development of an ecosystem of trust regarding AI assisted public safety promotion is central to this ELSA Lab application. In a variety of use cases benefits and safeguards are analyzed against the private-public-machine agency backdrop.

This ethnographic research explores transformations of the socioecological relations in Valkenburg at the Geul due to the 2021 floodings. Highlighting river sludge – the floods’ reminder and material remainder - this study analyses how sludge has informed, transformed, and deformed socio-ecological relations within the Geul riverscape. It develops an approach to post-disaster landscapes attuned to the persistent materialities after such a disaster and the ways these impinge on nature-culture relationships. Furthering disaster and post-disaster research by adopting a post-humanist lens, this study will help decision-makers and other stakeholders improve future preparedness for natural disasters in the Netherlands and beyond.

This project develops and pilot-tests an innovative online game to explore how young people (aged 16-25) perceive stereotypes in pornography. Built on the principles of concept mapping and inspired by the board game Guess Who?, the game stimulates participants to reflect on the meanings and associations linked to pornographic stereotypes. This tool will help researchers understand how these stereotypes influence young people’s perceptions of sex and gender roles. In the future, the game could be used more broadly for various studies and as an educational intervention in porn literacy programs to promote healthier and more equitable sexual attitudes.