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Wageningen School of Social Sciences

The mission of WASS is to understand social processes with regard to today’s global challenges of disparities and poverty, of responsible production and consumption, of natural resource use and the environment, as well as of knowledge in society.

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Agenda

  • Inauguration Prof. dr. Harm Veling
    February 2, 2023
  • Essentials of Modelling - 2 ECTS
    February 6, 2023
  • Inauguration Prof. Spencer Moore
    February 16, 2023
  • Academic Publication and Presentation in the Social Sciences - 4 ECTS
    February 20, 2023
  • Transformative and participatory qualitative research approaches and methods - 4 ECTS
    February 20, 2023
  • Gender and Diversity in the Life Sciences Domains (GEO58806)
    February 21, 2023
  • Systematic approaches to reviewing literature - 4 ECTS
    February 21, 2023
  • Institutions and Societal Transformation - 2 ECTS
    February 24, 2023
  • Economics of Farm Households - 1 ECTS
    February 27, 2023
  • Philosophy of Social Science - 3 ECTS
    March 6, 2023

Upcoming PhD defenses

  • Growing agroecology in Nicaragua: Towards a multi-scale perspective on agroecological transitions
    February 14, 2023

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WASS News

  • September 2, 2021
    Prof. dr. Anita Hardon appointed as Professor and chair of the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group
  • May 31, 2021
    Significant role of blogosphere in discourse on climate change
  • October 23, 2020
    WASS Publication Awards




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Latest publications

  • World Adaptation Science Program (WASP) (External organisation)
    Biesbroek, Robbert (2023)
  • The secrets of the bog: ‘You’ve got a prehistoric human right in front of you’
    Beek, Roy van (2023) De geheimen van het veen : ‘Je kijkt de prehistorische mens recht in het gezicht’, Resource jrg. 17 nr. 9 p. 20-21, 2023-01-20, https://edepot.wur.nl/585609;The secrets of the bog: ‘You’ve got a prehistoric human right in front of you’, Resource jrg. 17 nr. 9 p. 20-21, 2023-01-19, https://edepot.wur.nl/585856
  • Shrinking geographies or challenged rurality’s? Three points of reflection – commentary to Syssner
    Meijer, M. (2023) Fennia: International Journal of Geography 200 (2023)2. - ISSN 1798-5617 - p. 251 - 254.

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