Since February, UvA students who would like to meet new people or who feel lonely during the pandemic can go for a walk with another…
Milena KaprálováApril 6, 2021
Eric-Jan Wagenmakers is a professor in neurocognitive modelling at UvA’s Psychological Methods Department. He recently published a book with the remarkable title Bayesian Thinking for…
Julius DullaertNovember 19, 2020
By the end of August, University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Vrije Universiteit (VU) confirmed that they will be collaborating with the multinational Chinese technology company…
Julius DullaertSeptember 30, 2020
In comparison to previous years, many things have changed for this year’s batch of psychology students. Besides the obvious shift to online learning, alternative online…
Lydia TianAugust 31, 2020
Not only have current UvA students experienced changes in their education due to the corona crisis, but prospective students are affected by this, too. Since…
Lisanne van der VeldenJune 3, 2020
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you have noticed that quite a few things have changed recently. More or less abruptly, the Dutch…
Valentin WeberMay 4, 2020
UvA invited Nelson Maatman, pedophile-activist, to give a guest-lecture for the course Sociology of Sexuality. Later, the university apologized for inviting him as they were…
Quinty MarsMarch 30, 2020
With the recent implementation of an international bachelor at the Psychology department (since 2018-2019), the topic of diversity has become more relevant at our department.…
Lydia TianMarch 9, 2020
Over the past few years there has been a lot of talk about budget cuts in different faculties and departments at UvA. So far, these…
Quinty MarsJanuary 20, 2020
Since the study Psychology has been internationalized at the UvA, the number of students that didn’t join university directly after high school but later on…
Julia NürnbergerDecember 9, 2019
If you ever tried studying for an exam at Roeterseilandcampus (REC), you may have had the draining experience of walking up and down the library…
Rosa BreedJune 19, 2019
Decolonization is the process of undoing colonialism. Parallel to giving back people’s indigenous land is the idea of intellectual decolonization, the undoing of colonial ideas…
Martin VerloopApril 9, 2019