Consortium

Discover our Multidisciplinary Interuniversity Team

SOCION is a collaboration between scientists from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Currently, the consortium has 25 members.

Disciplines represented in the consortium currently comprise Social Psychology, Sociology, Social and Economic History, Philosophy and Demography.
Social and Economic History
Demography
Social Psychology
Philosophy
Sociology

Participating institutes

Disciplines and members

  • Psychology

    Lianne Aarntzen
    Belle Derks
    Naomi Ellemers
    Kai Epstude
    Hedy Greijdanus
    Nina Hansen
    Namkje Koudenburg
    Toon Kuppens
    Félice van Nunspeet
    Jojanneke van der Toorn
    Reine van der Wal
    Martijn van Zomeren

  • Sociology

    Wike Been
    Katia Begall
    Başak Bilecen
    Vincent Buskens
    Rense Corten
    Andreas Flache
    Liesbet Heyse
    Eva Jaspers
    Mathijs Kros
    Zoltán Lippenyi
    Georg Lorenz
    Daniel Readhead
    Tali Spiegel
    Ellen Verbakel
    Vera de Bel
    Rafael Wittek

  • Philosophy

    Lisa Bastian
    Leah Henderson
    Lisa Herzog
    Frank Hindriks
    Charlotte Knowles
    Philip Robichaud
    Andreas Schmidt
    Jan Willem Wieland

  • Demography

    Lonneke van der Berg
    Christian Czymara
    Matthijs Kalmijn
    Frank van Tubergen
    Helga de Valk



  • Social and Economic History

    Selin Dilli
    Swantje Falcke
    Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
    Vigyan Ratnoo
    John Tang
    Robert Vonk

International Advisory Board

  • Jay van Bavel (New York University)

    Psychology and Neural Science, group identity, moral judgment, cooperation, decision-making, political beliefs, fake news, conspiracy theories

  • Francesco Billari (Bocconi University Milan)

    Demography, lifecourse, family change, geography, digitalization

  • Nancy Cartwright (University of California San Diego)

    Philosophy of (social) sciences, interdisciplinarity

  • Pearl Dijkstra (ODISSEI)

    Social science data infrastructures, aging societies, intergenerational solidarity

  • Marko Hekkert (PBL)

    Netherlands Environmental Assessment, Climate adaptation, social transitions

  • Jolanda Jetten (University of Queensland)

    Psychology, social inequality, group processes and pressures, intergroup conflict, and social protest, stereotyping, prejudice, deviance, conformity

  • Monique Kremer (Dutch Migration Advisory Council)

    Migration, active citizenship

  • Michèle Lamont (Harvard University)

    Sociology, inclusion, social worth, stigma, (anti-) racism, class and racial boundaries, social change

  • Karen van Oudenhoven – van der Zee (SCP)

    Dutch Social Planning, migration, labour market integration

  • Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics, London School of Economics)

    Economics, comparative inequality

  • Yasemin Soysal (Berlin Social Science Center)

    Global sociology, nation-state and citizenship, historical development, global cultural frameworks

  • Mario Small (Columbia University)

    Social science, culture, organizations, urban poverty