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As of 1 March 2018 Lars Tummers has been appointed as professor of Public Administration and Organisation Science, specifically Public Management and Behavior.

Beatrice de Graaf and Mirko Noordegraaf were involved in two reports on the approach of the municipality of Amsterdam to radicalization and counterterrorism.

Utrecht University, University of Tsukuba and University of Johannesburg have started the Global Master’s Programme ‘Sport for development’.

Sport for Development is an international honoursprogramme offered by the universities of Johannesburg, Tsukuba and Utrecht.

USG employees will temporarily be located at Janskerkhof 12. Teaching rooms will be made available on Israëlslaan 118.

From 1 February 2018 Patrizia Zanoni has been appointed as professor in Organization Studies at USG.

Emergency measures frequently have unexpected or undesirable side-effects for society and the democratic rule of law.

By doing courses via Incluusion, several refugees have already been admitted to full master's programmes educated by Dutch universities.

On 17 and 18 January 2018 small and interdisciplinary teams of PhD and PDEng students will compete in inventing new, smart solutions for real vitality issues.

The North American Society of Sociology of Sport has recognized professor Annelies Knoppers as member of the inaugural class of the NASSS Research Fellows.

On 1 November 2017, Prof Marijk van der Wende was appointed Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance.

Igbal Safarov (Utrecht University School of Governance) received the Enlighten Your Research Award 2017 of EaP.

A successful workshop with exciting insights from ethnographic research on Behavioral insight teams in Australia and the Netherlands.

The bi-monthly magazine Sport & Strategie publishes two full pages of Sport & Society news in each printed edition.

A new political cleavage has emerged in Europe, according to Mark Bovens (Utrecht University School of Governance) and Anchrit Wille.

The central question within JOIN is how we prevent exclusion and strengthen meaningful participation of all young people in society.

Japanese and Dutch students join forces during a summer workshop on innovations to encourage physical activity in society.

The doubts about the competence of president Donald Trump grow by the day. Utrecht-based researcher Mallory Compton discusses four scenario's.

On April 5 2017, the soft launch of the Governance Lab Utrecht (GLU) took place at the Utrecht School of Governance (USG/USBO).

Professor Maarten van Bottenburg, coordinator of Sport & Society, has accepted the prestigious Francqui Chair at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Practicing football is popular among girls and women. Rutger de Kwaasteniet is appointed as PhD candidate to study this development.

In October 2015 the focus area Game Research awarded its first seed money grants to 10 interdisciplinary teams. The results turned out to be very diverse.

The main objective of this academic collaboration is the joint development of the Global Master's programme 'Sport for Development'.

On 25 October the annual Sport & Society network meeting was organised, resulting in many new connections, ideas and plans for collaboration.

During the Dutch mission to Japan, Sport & Society signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Universiteit of Tsukuba.

Sport & Society has granted six innovative research and education projects.

A research group from the focus area Sport & Society starts a study into the actions of Dutch football directors in moral dilemmas.

As of 1 May, 2016, Harry Hummels is appointed Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Utrecht University.

Utrecht University is treating residents of and visitors to the city of Utrecht to a Culturele Zondag (Cultural Sunday).

Sport & Society conducted research with the International Sports Alliance (ISA) about financial sustainability of Sport for Development (SfD) organisations.

The book ‘Rio is not for Amateurs’ and the documentary ‘De Reis van Je Leven’ (The Journey of Your Life) were launched recently.

Utrecht University and Utrecht University of Applied Sciences established the nationwide network Sport & Society in 2012.

Sport & Society will join the Dutch Trade Mission to Japan.

Many ideas, a new website, a film premiere and lots of inspiration were the proceeds of the Sport & Society meeting.

The Research Project Brazil enables 28 students from the Utrecht School of Governance to travel to Brazil in April 2015.