Nominated for the VIVA400 Awards

Haha! I was nominated for the VIVA400 Awards in the category bright minds!

Each year, Dutch women's magazine VIVA, selects 400 inspiring women in four different categories. Besides bright minds, there are the creatives, powerhouses, and world improvers. The VIVA400 woman "is ambitious and enterprising. She inspires by who she is, what she does and what she achieves in a team, as an entrepreneur, and/or for society. With her innovative mentality and working method, she has a clear objective. She won a prize in the past year, started a successful own business or performed a great feat with which she made a difference." Very honored indeed!

See what Leiden University writes here

Image credit: Sanoma Media Netherlands BV

Image credit: Sanoma Media Netherlands BV

Gratama Science Prize for innovative, societally relevant, and high-profile research

Today was a very good day! I was awarded the Gratama Science Prize for young scientists who distinguish themselves by their innovative, societally relevant, and high-profile research. A great honor!

After a lunch with board members and guests of the Gratama Foundation, I received the prize during the opening of the academic year, which took place in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. As I said in my acceptance speech: "This prize is not only my crowning glory but also an encouragement to continue doing where my passion lies: research that is both theoretically as well as practically relevant. Because this is what I think science is all about, that in the end we can utilize the knowledge we generate. That, in my eyes, is the real science prize."

Our paper received the Roberta Sigel Award 2015

I'm proud to announce that our conference paper was awarded the Roberta Sigel Early Career Scholar Paper Award 2015. The paper is entitled "A Sense of Powerlessness Fosters System Justification: Implications for the Legitimation of Authority, Hierarchy, and Government" and was presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology that took place in Rome, Italy.

Professor Sigel, whom the award honors, has been a distinguished professor of political science at Rutgers University since 1973. She is author and editor of seven books and many articles and book chapters, mostly in the areas of political socialization and democratic citizenship.

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