Pluralistic research
ISS research projects are set up in line with the pluralistic methods anchored in the ISS research programme. Our projects are interdisciplinary, involving researchers from across the social sciences.
Highlighted projects
Transformative Methodologies
Critically reflecting on research methodologies for social transformation
All Eyes on the Amazon
Technology enabling indigenous communities to monitor environmental damage in the Amazon
Education systems, aspiration and learning in remote rural settings
Investigating the processes through which schooling shapes young people’s aspirations
Our research projects
Each project falls under one or more of our four research themes.
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Why and how conflicts occur and how to achieve peace
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- Understanding transactional sex in situations of humanitarian crises (ListenH)
- Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives
- Strengthening Law, Democratization and Media in Ethiopia (LA-DEM-MED)
- Integrating approaches to the rule of law and human rights (INFAR)
- Legal Mobilization: Analyzing law-based advocacy
- When disaster meets conflict
- Transformative Methodologies
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The transformations of national societies and global society
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Deporting foreigners: Contested norms in international practice (NORMS)
Understanding transactional sex in situations of humanitarian crises (ListenH)
- Strengthening Education and Training Capacity in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Uganda (SET-SRHR)
- 'Count us in': Towards realizing health rights among undocumented people
- Adolescents’ perceptions of healthy relationships
- Transnational political engagement of African diaspora
- Social justice under secular liberalism: Muslims’ everyday ethics and human development in India and the Netherlands
- Exploring transnational diaspora engagement: Refugee settlements in Northern Uganda
- Migration and Human security – PCC Holder 2017-2019
- Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives
- Transformative Methodologies
Conserving natural resources for sustainable development
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Lithium extraction for inclusive development: gender analysis in Chile & Bolivia
- All eyes on the Amazon
- Green industrial policy in the age of rare metals (GRIP-ARM)
- Commodity & land rushes and regimes (RRUSHES-5)
- Well-being, ecology, gender and community (WEGO)
- The rise of digital farming
- Transitioning to the circular economy (ReTraCe)
- Theorizing a post-extractivist future for India
- Legal Mobilization: Analyzing law-based advocacy
- Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives
- Transformative Methodologies
Reducing poverty and vulnerability
Research projects
Preventing sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH)
Understanding transactional sex in situations of humanitarian crises (ListenH)
Migrant labour in Dutch agriculture: Regulated precarity
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