The research team of the Network Institute is fostering more professional and colloquial interactions between all the different scholars of our university working on our digitalizing societies. To do so, we are organizing monthly Research Lunches during which we can hear about each other’s work, provide feedback, and mostly, get to know each other personally. This stimulates more cooperation between all the researchers and departments of the Network Institute.
The organization of the Research Lunches is bottom up, so all NI Members can come up with themes to organize the lunches around. So if you have any ideas, please fill this form.
We always have fascinating projects to hear about, so come join us on our monthly NI Research Lunches every second Thursday of the month! Lunch will be provided.
Registration is required, mostly for planning our catering and room setup. Click here to register the next NI Research Lunches!
Material about the previous research lunches
Below you can find the list of research themes/projects we discussed in the previous research lunches, together with their material, slides, etc.
| Theme | Researchers/guests | Material | Date |
| Interdisciplinary perspectives on implicit meaning in language models | Pia Sommerauer | NU-3A67 | 10/04/2025 |
| Integrating AI in Local Newsrooms | Constanza Gajardo | NU-5A57 | 17/10/2024 |
| AI in Regional Journalism – Potential and Pitfalls | Reshmi Pillai (VU) | – | 11/07/2024 |
| Digital Phenotyping: Chances and Challenges | Karin Bogdanova (TU Delft), Janika Thielecke (TNO) and Aneta Lisowska (VU) Hosted by Renate Baumgartner (Athena Institute – VU) | TBD | 14/05/2024 |
| Generative AI for Research | Francesco Balocco and Ella Hafermalz (KIN Center for Digital Innovation) | – | 11/04/2024 |
| Meet the Academy Assistants | NIAA supervisors and assistants | – | 14/03/2024 |
| Meet the Research Support Department | Research support department | Slides science in the cloud – Slides open science |
14/12/2023 |
| Religion on Social Media & Metaphors in Tech Communication | Gudrun Reijnierse & Aletta Meinsma; Willem van Peursen & Yusuf Çelik | – | 9/11/2023 |
| Human-interactive agent learning | Emmanuel Senft (Idiap, Switzerland) | Slides | 12/10/2023 |
| Valorization and professional development | IXA & IXA-GO representatives | Slides | 21/9/2023 |
| Social Science x Computer Science | Bianca Suanet, Kees Boersma, Koen Hindriks | – | 6/6/2023 |
| NIAA information & match-making | Lea Lösch, Andreu Casas Salleras | Slides | 11/5/2023 |
| Human Robot Interaction | Mike Ligthart, Jaap Kruijt, Peggy van Minkelen | – | 13/4/2023 |
| Interdisciplinary co-working session on CollAction | Tom Siebring (CollAction) | – | 9/3/2023 |
| The interdisciplinary trap? | – | Slides | 8/12/2022 |
| Video gaming as an affective research paradigm |
Lukas Kaczmarek (Psychology)
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17/11/2022 | |
| The effects of exposure to VR vs desktop games on spatial presence, flow, and positive emotions | Ewa Międzobrodzka (Psychology) and Melissa Quirijnen (Communication Science) | Slides | 17/11/2022 |
| Perspective-taking in webcare: how can public organizations respond to social media comments to encourage debate and promote their causes? (a project together with Ana Loureiro Lopes, Communication Science) | Tijs van den Broek (Organization Sciences) and Anna Wegmann (Computer Sciences) | Slides | 18/10/2022 |
| Human-robot teaching interactions inspired by dog training (a project together with Daniel Preciado Vanegas, Communication Science) | Kim Baraka (Computer Science) | Slides | 18/10/2022 |
| Reasons for online (dis)trust in sustainable initiatives” (a project together with Ana Loureiro Lopes, Communication Science) | Myrthe Reuver (Computational Linguistics) | Slides | 18/10/2022 |
Organizers
- Lea Lösch (Athena Institute)
- Giulia Scapin (Communication Science)
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