[December 2024]   Students of the programme Communication and Information Sciences at Utrecht University all take a course on writing in their second ...

[November 4, 2024] Our colleague dr. Stef Spronck was interviewed by Nemo Kennislink about his knowledge on ‘taboo languages’ in ...

[October 8, 2024] A new study by Tess van der Zanden and her co-author Janneke Schokkenbroek was featured in the DUB, the independent news site of Utrecht ...

[September 27, 2024] Charlotte van Hooijdonk and Christine Liebrecht wrote an opinion piece for Dutch newspaper AD about their research on customer service ...

[2 July 2024] This seed-fund project led by Karin Fikkers delves into the persuasive powers of Sam van Zoest’s award-winning interactive eco-documentary, ...

[6 June 2024] With the elections for the European Parliament on June 6th, a large part of the electorate does not feel very knowledgeable and is ...

[15 mei 2024] De schrijfcrisis in het Nederlandse onderwijs kreeg minder aandacht dan de leescrisis. Maar ook de resultaten van het Nederlandse ...

[10 May 2024] On May 10th Florian Kunneman was interviewed in the television programme Meldpunt on the status of service agent chatbots. Meldpunt has ...

[21 March 2024] Professor Language, Communication and Computation Antal van den Bosch is invited as a speaker on the Heerlijk Duidelijkdag on Thursday 21 ...

[15 March 2024] Communication is seen by many not only as the root of all evil, but also as the solution to all problems. Because if only there had been ...

[6 March 2024] What if you’re listening to speech for the first time in your life? You hear a series of sounds. But what do these sounds stand for? ...

[13 February 2024] Since 1 November 2019, professor Haidee Kotze is Professor of Translation Studies at Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities. On ...

[13 February 2024] Suzanne Bogaerds-Hazenberg, former PhD student of our research group, has received the AVT/Anéla Dissertation Award. She wins the award ...

[5 December 2023] Does this feel familiar, working a lot behind your laptop or in the lab and sometimes losing sight of the outside world for a while? ...

[20 november 2023] Verkiezingsprogramma’s zijn nauwelijks voorlichting voor kiezers. Ze zijn moeilijk geschreven en erg dik, en worden dan ook vooral ...

[25 October 2023] Open Science is an increasingly important part of conducting research. To increase the familiarity of the concept, the team of the Open ...

[20 September 2023] This year’s speech from the throne was complexly worded once again, analysis by linguists Leo Lentz and Henk Pander Maat shows. It ...

[6 september 2023] Sociale druk, prestatiedruk, globalisering, digitalisering, klimaatverandering. In hun tocht naar volwassenheid krijgen jongeren nogal ...

[11 augustus 2023] De klantenservice van veel bedrijven is ondermaats, zag Kassa in haar Klantenservice Enquête. Het consumentenprogramma sprak Charlotte ...

[12 December 2022] As of August 1 2022, Prof. dr. Christopher Jenks has been appointed Professor of Language and Intercultural Communication at the Faculty ...