And the winners of the 2022 EGSH PhD Excellence Awards are...

We were happy to have Frédérique Franken to present the EGSH PhD Council and its activities.

We were lucky to get a lot of strong submissions for our awards this year and we would like to take this opportunity to thank all who submitted. We deeply appreciate your efforts and we encourage you all to enter again next year and look forward to your submission(s).

With special thanks to our host dr. Esther Rozendaal and the award presenters prof. dr. Victor Bekkers, dr. Fadi Hirzalla and Luciana Dos Santos Duarte we hereby present to you the nominees and winners!

Warm regards,
The EGSH team

The nominees for the Best Thesis Award 2022:

• Vincent Baptist, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)
  For his thesis 'Pleasure near the Port: Spaces and Legacies of Notorious Entertainment Culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam'
• Donna de Maat, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For her thesis 'Bouncing back from stress: Unraveling longitudinal linkages between stress, child emotional and behavioral outcomes, and resilience'
• Yuri Scharp, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For his thesis 'Playful Work Design: Homo Ludens Faber'
• Femke Vandenberg, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)
  For her thesis '“ALL TOGETHER NOW”: Live (streamed) music as collective practice'

And the award for Best Thesis 2022 goes to Yuri Scharp!

With his thesis “Playful Work Design: Homo Ludens Faber” Yuri was announced as winner of the Best PhD thesis award. Our jury was impressed by how his thesis synthesizes different literature fields about work and play, but also by the methodological rigour of his work as well as its clear societal relevance. 

Congratulations, Yuri!

Yuri joined through Facetime :) with Victor Bekkers
 

The nominees for the Best Article Award 2022:

• Britt Swartjes, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)
  For her article 'Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context' in 'Leisure Sciences'
• Chiara Carboni, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
  For her article 'Eye for an AI: More-than-seeing, fauxtomation, and the enactment of uncertain data in digital pathology' in 'Social Studies of Science' 
• Philipos Petros Gile, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
  For his article 'Strategic human resource management and performance in public hospitals in Ethiopia' in Forntiers in Public Health.
• Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
  For her article 'The Urban Lab. Imaginative Work in the City' in 'International Journal of Urban and Regional Research'
• Syb Kuijper, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
  For his article 'Assembling care: How nurses organise care in uncharted territory and in times of pandemic' in 'Sociology of Health & Illness' 44, no. 8 (2022): 1305-1323  

The award for Best Article 2022 goes to Britt Swartjes!
With her article “Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context“ Britt Swartjes was announced as winner of the Best Article Award. According to our jury “It was a pleasure reading your article” and they were impressed by how Britt integrated diverse insights and theories from leisure studies, urban planning and design, and cultural sociology. So, she used a cross-disciplinary approach to investigate the important topic of social mixing in public spaces. 

Congratulations, Britt!

The nominees for the Best Conference Paper award 2022:

• Thijs Lindner, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For his conference paper 'What do stances on immigrants’ welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a Correlational Class Analysis' presented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. 117th meeting (2022), Los Angeles (USA). Section on Political Sociology, Roundtable 5: Solidarity, Ingroup Processes, and Belief Systems
• Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
  For her conference paper 'The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance' presented at the 4S congress in December 2022 in Cholula, Mexico. Theme: Reunion. 
• Vivian Visser, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB) 
  For her conference paper 'Between suspicion and benevolence: How the social status of initiators plays a role in street-level bureaucrats’ assessment of citizens’ initiatives' presented at the NIG Annual Work Conference 2022, panel: Street-level bureaucracy of the 21st century in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

The award for Best Conference Paper 2022 goes to Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga!
With her paper “The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance” that she presented at the 4S congress in December 2022 in Mexico, Sabrina was announced as winner of the Best Conference Paper Award. With the focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, the societal relevance of her paper is evident and the research quality of the study is excellent according to our jury. One of the things that stood out for the jury was the unique data that Sabrina managed to collect through first-hand observations in dozens of crisis meetings in the very beginning stages of the Corona pandemic. 

Congratulations, Sabrina!

The nominees for the Best Poster award 2022:
 

• Asimina Aslanidou, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For her poster 'No Influence of Threat Uncertainty on Fear Generalization' presented at the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) in Vienna, Austria
• Tim van Meurs, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For his poster 'Structural sugar-sweetened beverage interventions and institutional delegitimization' presented at the 15th European Public Health Conference, 2022 in Berlin, Germany
• Novika Purnama Sari, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For her poster 'Maternal age, autistic-like traits and mentalizing as predictors of child autistic-like traits in a population-based cohort' presented at the ISSBD conference Rhodes Island, Greece
• Sophie Sweijen, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
  For her poster 'Adolescents’ Trust and Reciprocity Towards Friends, Unknown Peers, and Community Members' presented at the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA) conference in 2022 in Dublin, Ireland

The award for Best Poster 2022 goes to Novika Purnama Sari!
For the second time Novika has been announced as winner of the Best Poster Award with her poster “Maternal age, autistic like traits and mentalizing as predictors of child autistic like traits in a population based cohort.”. According to our jury “Her poster exhumes a kind of serenity. The poster is informative but does not bombard the viewer with details, visuals, and text, which are known pitfalls in poster design. She has done a great job”.

Congratulations, Novika!

The nominees for the Best Societal Impact award 2022:
 

• Justine van de Beek, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM)
• Kayla Green, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Kristel de Groot, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Thijs Lindner, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Mirthe Verbeek, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)

The award for Best Societal Impact 2022 goes to Kayla Green and Kristel de Groot
Together with her team Kayla pursues to understand and promote wellbeing and empowerment among young people within the initiative called ‘Triple Crisis: Youth as Agents of Change’. To bring this under the attention, Kayla published an e-magazine, created information videos, wrote a blog, and did a radio interview, among other things and that is what convinced our jury that she makes a great societal impact with her work.
 

Kristel is making an impact for our own students and staff at Erasmus University with a disability. She has created awareness about their access to education and work in different ways, for instance with the help of social media and a newsletter that was sent periodically to EUR staff. But also, by publishing an opinion article in Erasmus Magazine and by speaking at the Connect Mentor Program Dialogue and Dinner event. 

Congratulations, Kayla and Kristel!

The nominees for the Best PhD Colleague Award 2022 are:

• Sophie van Balen, Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil)
• Savannah Boele, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences :(ESSB)
• Ilse van de Groep, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences :(ESSB)
• Amalia Hasnida, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
• Tessa Oomen, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)
• Zhen Ye, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)

The award for Best PhD Colleague 2022 goes to Sophie van Balen!
Sophie has been announced as winner of the Award for Best PhD Colleague and was nominated by several of her fellow PhD candidates. According to them “Sophie played a pivotal role in getting the ESPhil PhD community back on track after years of covid slumber. She contributes enormously by co-creating safe spaces to discuss work in progress and to get to know each other better. All the while doing methodologically innovative & politically urgent research as well as public intellectual work!”. She received these and many other kind words from her colleagues.

Thank you, Sophie!

The nominees for the Best PhD Supervisor 2022 are:

• Jurian Edelenbos, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB), Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
• Conrad Heilmann, Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil)
• Jeroen van Wijngaarden, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
• Rianne Kok, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Rik Wehrens, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
• Eveline Crone, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Joris van de Klundert, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
• Martina Buljac, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM)
• Martine Baars, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Pauline Jansen, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (ESSB)
• Yijing Wang, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC)

We are proud at EGSH that you are part of our community and that you are setting an example to your colleagues how to supervise. Your PhDs say you bring time, effort and enthusiasm to the table; they say you create a warm and supportive environment for them; they recognise that you help them with your extensive networks; and, very importantly, they deeply appreciate how you support them in times of personal hardship and give them time to recover.

The award for Best PhD Supervisor 2022 goes to Jurian Edelenbos!
Jurian has been announced as best supervisor as we received many kind words for him, from his PhD students: “He is a supportive and responsible supervisor with high experience in helping students achieve their goals. His collaboration and communication are excellent, and I appreciate him as a good leader in my PhD. trajectory.” PhD candidates also emphasized Jurian’s empathy and engagement with his students: “For candidates who were lost, confused, sick, worried... For all of them, Jurian gave more than academic guidance. He gave his full dedication, showed kindness, respect.”

Thank you, Jurian!

The nominees for the Best EGSH Teacher 2022 are:
 

• Job van Exel 
• Gerben Tuin
• Marjolijn Das en Ruben van Gaalen
• Marleen de Moor

The award for Best EGSH Teacher 2022 goes to Marleen de Moor!

For her course ‘Multilevel modelling’ Marleen received a very high evaluation from the participating students. This is very impressive because this was the first time she taught the course about multilevel modelling at our graduate school and it is not an easy subject.

Despite that, the students had words of praise for her “The course provided a great introduction to multilevel modelling. By building up from the theoretical foundations, followed by a step-by-step overview of the execution, and application to our own research topics/data, the course really provided everything one would expect from a Graduate School course. Dr. de Moor clearly has expert knowledge on the topic, found innovative ways to teach it, and was able to tailor the sessions to the specific needs of the group. Her personalized approach, focusing on our particular research questions and data sources, made this course a very valuable preparation for my dissertation.”  

Thank you, Marleen!