External Funding

ERMeCC researchers have a strong track record in securing external funding. Current and recent research projects include:

Current projects

GAMPSISS: Gameful Music Performances for Smart, Inclusive, and Sustainable Societies
Prof. dr. Koen van Eijck. Grant: NWO Creative Industries SMART Culture
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POPLIVE- Staging popular music: sustainable live music ecologies for artists, music venues and cities
Dr. Erik Hitters, Dr. Pauwke Berkers, Prof.dr. Susanne Janssen, Dr. Arno van der Hoeven. Grant: NWO Creative Industries SMART Culture
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Mapping Privacy and Surveillance Dynamics in Emerging Mobile Ecosystems: Practices and Contexts in the Netherlands and US
Dr. Jason Pridmore, Dr. Daniel Trottier. PhD Candidate: Anouk Mols. Grant: NWO/NSF
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Digital Vigilantism: Mapping the terrain and assessing societal impacts
Dr. Daniel Trottier. Grant: VIDI
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Impression Management on Gay Dating Apps in China
Shangwei Wu
Supervisors: Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen & Dr. Janelle Ward
War! Popular Culture and European Heritage of Major Armed Conflicts.
Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders & Prof. dr. Jeroen Jansz. Grant: Research Excellence Initiative (REI).
Worlds of Imagination
Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders. Grant: ERC Consolidator Grant.
Creative Industries in India: Size, Geography and Potential.
Prof. dr. Filip Vermeylen. Grant: NWO and the India Council for Social Sciences Research.
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Sport and National Identity: Changing Citizenship and the Global Battle for Talent.
Dr. Jacco van Sterkenburg. Grant: Research Excellence Initiative (REI).
Behind the scenes in Dutch fashion; Bridging the gap between independent fashion designers, craftsmen and fashion intermediaries.
Dr. Mariangela Lavanga. Grant: KIEM Creative Industries.
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Audiences of televised football: meanings given to race, ethnicity and gender.
Dr. Jacco van Sterkenburg.
Grant: EUR-fellowship
Geopolitics of artivism: Comparing the attribution of societal impact and artistic qualities in te Western reception of art activists from democratic and authoritarian regimes.
Frank Weij, MSc. Grant: PhD in the Humanities. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Koen van Eijck, Dr. Pauwke Berkers & Dr. Jiska Engelbert.
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Prizes for Innovation - Impact analysis in the ICT for education sector
Dr. Payal Arora
Film Tourism in China.
Min Xu, MA. Grant: CSC PhD Scholarship.
Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders.
Developing political cognitions among young people through social media: A comparative study between Europe and China.
Qiong Gong, MA. Grant: CSC PhD Scholarship. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen & Dr. Marc Verboord.
Boundaries by design. How Dutch and American Designers Navigate Multiple Fields.
Dr. Laura Braden. Grant: VENI-project.
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The Fogland Game: Creating and validating a paper prototype of a game to fight smokers.
Dr. Julia Kneer & Prof. dr. Jeroen Jansz. Grant: KIEM Creative Industries.
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Constructing Cultural Authority. The Online and Offline Evaluation of Popular Music and Fiction Books.
Rian Koreman. Grant: PhD in the Humanities. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen & Dr. Marc Verboord.
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Locating Imagination. An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Literary, Film and Music Tourism.
Director: Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders. Grant: Free Competition.
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Persuasive Gaming. From theory-based design to validation and back.
Prof. dr. Joost Raessen (UU) & Prof. dr. Jeroen Jansz. Grant: Top Sector Creative Industries.
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Cultures of innovation in the creative industries (CICI). Comparative research in small-scale clusters.
Director: Dr. Erik Hitters. Grant: Top Sector Creative Industries.
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Virtual parks: conceptualizing leisure spaces in the digital age.
Dr. Payal Arora. Grant: EUR-fellowship
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Living in a Mediatized Society. An Ethnography of Media Rituals in the Netherlands.
Balázs Boross, MA. Grant: PhD in the Humanities. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen & Prof. dr. Stijn Reijnders.
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Elvis has finally left de building? Boundary work, whiteness and the reception of rock music in a comparative perspective.
Julian Schaap, MSc. Grant: PhD in the Humanities. Supervisor(s): Koen van Eijck & Pauwke Berkers.
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Reading Suffering. An Empirical Enquiry into Emotional and Reflective Responses to Narratives of Mental Pain.
Emy Koopman, MSc. Grant: PhD in the Humanities. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen, Dr. Els Andringa & Dr. Jemeljan Hakelmulder (UU).
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Journalism and the tensions of neoliberal democracy.
Dr. Isabel Awad. Grant: VENI-project.
Cultural transmission and artistic exchanges in the Low Countries, 1572-1672: mobility of artists, works of art and artistic knowledge.
Prof. dr. Filip Vermeylen. Grant: Free Competition.
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Popular music heritage,cultural memory and cultural identity. Localised popular music histories and their significance for music audiences and music industries in Europe
Prof. dr. Susanne Janssen. Grant: HERA Joint Research project: POPID.
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The Industrial Internet Project.
Dr. Payal Arora. Grant: General Electric Fellowship.
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Recent projects

ICT and Social Cohesion at the Micro and Macro Level.
By Dr. Marjon Schols. Grant: TNO & Funded by KPN. Supervisor(s): Prof. dr. Jos de Haan, Prof. dr. Jeroen Jansz & Prof. dr. Valerie Frissen.
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- VICI-project
  Director: Susanne Janssen. Cultural Classifications Systems in Transition. The Social Valuation of Cultural Goods in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United states, 1955-2005. Project site
- VENI-project
  Stijn Reijnders. Media Tourism. Geographical Imagination in the World of James Bond and The Da Vinci Code.
- VENI-project
  Laura Braden. Boundaries by design. How Dutch and American Designers Navigate Multiple Fields. Project site
PhD Project, sponsored by the Mondriaan Foundation
Femke van Hest. The Representation of Dutch Visual Art on the Global Market Place.
Supervisor(s): Susanne Janssen & Jean Louis Fabiani (EHESS).
Council for the Judiciary
Bernadette Kester. Evaluation of the Press Directive. Info/NL-info
Teens creativity in a virtual world
Jeroen Jansz in collaboration with Mijke Slot (ERMeCC/TNO) and Remco Pijpers (Stichting Mijn Kind Online). Funded by Digibewust & Digivaardig en Mediawijzernet.
EU Kids Online
Jos de Haan, Marc Verboord and Peter Nikken participate in the Dutch component of this large-scale European research project directed by Sonia Livingstone.
Kennisnetproject
Jeroen Jansz in collaboration with IVO Rotterdam: What do we know about positive and negative effects of playing video- and computergames?
ESF SCH/SCSS Exporatory Workshop
Erik Hitters. Exploring Creative Cities: The Cultural and Economic Values of Cultural Industries Clusters.
PhD Project, co-funded by TNO
Miriam van de Kamp. Where Corporate Culture and Local Markets Meet. Music and Film Majors in the Netherlands, 1990-2005.
Supervisor(s): Ton Bevers, Paul Rutten & Erik Hitters
Research projects, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
Director: Jos de Haan. The Virtual Culture Buff. Public Interest in Cultural Websites. Info
Directors: Jos de Haan & Susanne Janssen. The Digitisation of Culture (research on the use of digital media by institutions in the Dutch cultural field). Info
Research projects, commissioned by the Dutch Language Association
Directors: Susanne Janssen & Kris Humbeeck (University of Antwerpen). Media Use and Information Needs of Producers, Mediators, and Readers of Fiction Books in the Netherlands, Flanders and Suriname. Info
Directors: Kris Humbeeck (University of Antwerpen) & Susanne Janssen. Working conditions and career development of Dutch and Flemish literary translators. Info