Peter Scheepers#
| Membership Number: | 4149 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://organisatiegids.ru.nl/tabProfiel.aspx?isEngels=false&RBSID=103232&frm=organisatiegids&doHide=False |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present vice-dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences
- 2004 - present elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 - present professor of Empirical Studies on Religion with an emphasis on Methodology
- 2003 - 2008, 2011 - 2014 director of the Nijmegen Research Institute for Social and Cultural Science
- 2002 - present board member Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology
- 2002 - present board member European Research Centre On Migration and Ethnic Relations
- 2001 - present professor of Comparative Methodology
- 2001 - 2005 national coordinator European Social Survey, representative for the National Science Foundation
- 1994 - 2002 endowed professor on Ethnic Relationships
- 1991 - 2001 associate professor Empirical Sociology
Fields of Scholarship
- Out-group derogation: public opposition to grant civil rights to migrants
- Voting for far right-wing parties aiming to exclude ethnic minorities
- In-group solidarity
Honours and Awards
- 2004 elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 Scheepers served as the first elected Dutch national coordinator for the European Social Survey, granted EU Descartes Prize for radical innovations in cross-national surveys: http://ec.europa.eu/research/press/2005/pr0212en.cfm
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- Recent Research Grants over the period 2007-2014 in total: 3 million euro.
- Research Grants > 600.000 Euro each:
- 2009 Ethno-Religious Conflicts in Indonesia and the Philippines, National Science Foundation (4 PhD’s plus 1 postdoc)
- 2009 Ethnic diversity: interethnic contact or conflicts in Europe, National Science Foundation (1 PhD plus 4 postdocs)
- 2007 Religious sources of solidarity, cross-national and longitudinal comparisons in Europe, NORFACE (4 PhD’s plus 1 postdoc)
