OSCA Awards 2025

 

Beyond infrastructure: Unpacking the complexity of exclusion and implications for just mobility transitions

As cities promote cycling as a sustainable mode of transport, this project asks a crucial question: Who is being left behind? Focusing on Amsterdam, the study explores what a just mobility transition looks like by examining the barriers faced by …

Can You Trust the Data from Your Wearable? A Critical Evaluation of Heart Rate and HRV Accuracy

This study critically evaluated four wearable devices for their accuracy in measuring heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) against a gold-standard monitor. Surprisingly, even a widely used research-grade device did not outperform consumer …

Estimating the Unobserved: Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation of Evidence Accumulation Models with Missing or Contaminant Data

This student project involved creating likelihood functions for the Bayesian estimation of cognitive parameters behind choices and response times in R, for the R package EMC2 of the Amsterdam Mathematical Psychology Lab. Particularly, the likelihood …

Interactional roles and social actions to foster translation within meetings of interdisciplinary research teams

This project uses conversation analysis to identify key social actions that support knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary science teams. By analyzing meetings within a neuroscience collaboration, the researchers identified six interactional roles, …

Joy in academia: centering racialized voices in Dutch and Belgian universities.

Joy in Academia is a podcast series that highlights how racialized academics in the Netherlands and Belgium cultivate joy within academic institutions often shaped by exclusion. Through conversations across fields like law, psychology, and …

JUST PREPARE ‐ Putting REsident Practices And REsidential areas at the center of a JUST and effective energy transition in underprivileged neighbourhoods

Shaping an effective and just energy transition in underprivileged neighborhoods requires better understanding of both the diversity of household energy practices and how to meaningfully engage residents in renovation planning and implementation. …

Replicating and Extending Soroka, Fournier, and Nir: Negative News Increases Arousal and Negative Affect

This student-led replication study tested the negativity bias hypothesis—the idea that people react more strongly to negative than positive news—using a preregistered, well-powered design in the Netherlands. It replicated key findings from Soroka et …

Replicating and Extending Soroka, Fournier, and Nir: Negative News Increases Arousal and Negative Affect

This student-led replication study tested the negativity bias hypothesis, the idea that people react more strongly to negative than positive news, using a preregistered, well-powered design in the Netherlands. It replicated key findings from Soroka …

ShareStats - The open statistics assessment itembank

ShareStats is the world’s largest public repository of open-source statistics assessment items, developed to support high-quality, data-informed education. This collaborative initiative brings together multiple Dutch universities and universities of …

Studying the association between loneliness and support for populist radical right using state-of-the art open science practices

This study investigates the relationship between loneliness and support for populist radical right (PRR) parties. Drawing on data from over 40,000 individuals across nine European countries, the researchers conducted 25 preregistered analyses and …