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Dr. J. van Stekelenburg

Telephone:+31 20 59 86749
Room nr:z-524
E-mail:j.van.stekelenburg@vu.nl
Unit:faculteit der sociale wetenschappen (afdeling sociologie)
Position:Researcher

Jacquelien van Stekelenburg is a post-doc researcher at the Sociology department of the VU-University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studies the social psychological dynamics of moderate and radical protest participation with a special interest in group identification, emotions, and ideologies as motivators for action. She graduated in 2006 (cum laude) on the thesis: Promoting or Preventing Social Change. Instrumentality, Identity, Ideology and Groups-Based Anger as Motives of Protest Participation supervised by Prof. Dr. B. Klandermans and Dr. W. W. van Dijk.

Degrees

2006‐ present
Post doctoral researcher (1,0 fte).

2006
Ph.D‐degree in Social Psychology (Cum Laude VU University) with the doctoral thesis: ‘Promoting or preventing social change. Instrumentality, identity, ideology and groupsbased anger as motives of protest participation.'

Awards, grants and fellowships

2010
Grant for 28 academy assistants (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences [KNAW] €280.000,-), together with Peter Groenewegen en Marjolein Broese. ‘Communication in social networks: working at the edge of social sciences and computer science link

2010
Grant to organize a Symposium on the Social Psychology of Protest from the ASPO Dutch Association on Social Psychology (€1.000,- together with Martijn van Zomeren (Groningen University)

2009
Research incentives grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University in Amsterdam (€ 12.500,- together with Bert Klandermans).

2009
International comparative study on protest: ‘Caught in the act of protest’ in 6 European countries awarded by the European Science Foundation and funded by the NWO (over 2 million € for the whole project, together with Bert Klandermans (VU University and Stefaan Walgrave, Antwerpen University).

2008
Grant to organize a Colloquium and Master class on the occasion of the retirement of B. Klandermans (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences [KNAW] €19.500,-).

2008
Invited scholar at the social psychology department of the University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

2007
MaGW Open Competition. (NWO) $250.000 The role of organizers in in demonstrations (with Bert klandermans and Marije Boekkooi, 2007-2011.

2007
Post-doctoral fellowship (3 years) from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University in Amsterdam

2005
Travel Grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University in Amsterdam to visit the conference of the International Society of Political Psychology in Toronto, Canada. (€1100,-).

2005
Travel Grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University in Amsterdam to visit the conference of the American Sociological Association in Philadelphia, US. (€1000,-).