Eva Jaspers is Professor of Empirical and Theoretical Sociology and a member of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) at Utrecht University. She is member of the ICS Research Line Migration and Social Stratification. Her research interests are at the intersection of networks, diversity and inequality. She aims to understand how people’s contexts, interactions and relations with (dis)similar others shape their patterns of behavior and their outcomes at school, at work, and at home. She has published in journals such as American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Social Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Sex Roles.
Eva Jaspers has managed various large scale data collections, and received multiple grants from NWO and de Volkswagen Stiftung. She is involved in several international research projects, for example on network interventions to counter polarization (INCLUSIVITY) and research on the transition to parenthood for same-sex couples (GENPARENT). She is a Fellow of the Gravitation Program SCOOP, the research and training centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of sustainable cooperation as a key feature of resilient societies. She is a co-applicant in the prestigious NWO Summit Grant for research consortiums: Social Cohesion – Towards a New Fabric of Society (SOCION).
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