MICRO: Measuring children’s wellbeing and mental health with social robots Poor mental health particularly affects children in vulnerable groups. For example, children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and children who have experienced forced migration, e.g., refugees, are more at risk of poor mental health outcomes in comparison with their peers. However, there is a lack…
LGBTI_FUTURES: LGBTI+ youth well-being across Europe: Imagined futures in turbulent times Despite progressive moves towards lesbian and gay equality, societal stigmatisation and discrimination persists across Europe. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex (LGBTQI) people still experience significant inequalities in wellbeing, with these particularly pronounced for young LGBTQI+ people who are at higher risk of depression,…
FLOW: Foster long-term well-being in pre-adolescent children and their families Our mental health is determined by a balance between our individual resources and external challenges. Four researchers from universities in Germany (Svenja Taubner), Lithuania (Rasa Barkauskiene), Spain (Eduardo Fonseca Pedrero) and Switzerland (Martin Debbané) are investigating parents and children with different levels of risk of…
NIHAI: Norms in language-based Human-AI Interaction As misinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories circulate ever more freely, trust in media, science, and government is eroding. This challenge will intensify further, as we increasingly communicate with, and by aid of, large language models. Our three-year research project seeks to devise principles for responsible LLM communication: Philosophically…
CHRYSES: Mapping Environmental Health Crises – Public Understanding through Myths and Science While humanity has faced countless Environmental Health Crises (EHC) throughout its history, in recent times such crises have increased rapidly, not only in their occurrence and intensity but also in their global spread and consequences. Developing humanities-based strategies to better understand EHC and…
Rehearsal photo from the production An Fear Liath written by Philip Doherty and adapted by Fran Nuñez. Produced by Fíbín Teo in association with Centro Dramático Galego and Tryater. Photograph by Bruno Pierrucci CoastARTS: Coastlines as Zones of Ecocultural Crisis – Shaping Resilience through Transnational Performance-based Arts CoastARTS treats the coastal areas of Europe and its former colonies as…
TiCToC: Times in Crisis, Times of Crisis: The Temporalities of Europe in Polycrisis It is often said that Europe is in polycrisis: Climate, economy, migration, democracy, armed conflict and academia are pertinent fields where crisis abounds. This project explores the temporal registers of crisis, the vernacular articulation of life in turmoil, and the cultural dynamics…
image used with the permission of the artist Jonah Sack Home in Crisis: Deconstructing ‘home’ in crisis – understanding intersecting crises through the lens of ‘home’ We all live our day-to-day lives in a state of climate crisis. We board planes and plough fields, we commute, we work, we collect water and build houses, we…
LIMINALWATER: Liminal Waterway Countercultures While most academics approach Europe from the perspective of the continent’s landmass, we explore the waterways that marks its peripheries or limits, especially its “liminal” waterways – those that mark edges or boundaries and therefore enable interesting things to happen. We focus on what we call liminal waterway countercultures, the creative…
CRIES: CRIses Established Singing. Investigations into the Inherent Potential of Collective Singing in Times of Social Crises in the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions This project investigates the role of collective singing during times of social crisis in the Baltic and Scandinavian regions, from ca. 1800 to the present. Singing together appears to be a universal…
