Dr. Meta van der Linden

Dr. Meta van der Linden

Assistant Professor
Interdisciplinary Social Science
m.vanderlinden3@uu.nl

Instituut GAK NIAS fellowship 2026.

 

Open Competition XS grant competitively awarded by NWO (amount 50k), 2025. Topic: “Whitelash: Conceptualizing and measuring majority-group backlash to diversity and social change”. 

 

Focus Area Migration and Societal Challenges seed money grant competitively awarded by Utrecht University (co-PI with Tom Nijs, Tobias Stark, and Ekaterina Rashkova-Gerbrands, amount 8k). Topic: "Perceived Majority Disadvantage: Exploring Whitelash Sentiments in Western Europe"

 

Funding for one PhD student competitively awarded by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University (co-PI with Mathijs Kros and Borja Martinovic, amount: ca. 300k). Topic: "The bright and dark sides of immigrant-origin minorities’ perceptions of country ownership in multi-ethnic societies"

 

Focus Area Dynamics of Youth seed money grant competitively awarded by Utrecht University (co-PI with Sönke Matthewes, amount 10k). Topic: “The effects of separate preparatory school classes on refugee children’s educational attainment, social-emotional development and socio-cultural integration” 

 

Focus Area Migration and Societal Challenges seed money grant competitively awarded by Utrecht University (co-PI with Floris Peters and Swantje Falcke, amount 10k). Topic: "Do integration policies matter? A study of the effectiveness of integration policies on refugees’ labor market integration in the Netherlands"

 

Funding for one PhD student competitively awarded by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University (co-PI with Lucas Drouhot and Frank van Tubergen, amount: ca. 253k). Topic: "Why structurally integrated second-generation immigrants experience more discrimination from ethnic majority members. A two-sided approach to the integration paradox"

 

De tweejaarlijkse Prijs voor Beleidsonderzoek van de Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging (NSV) en de Vereniging voor Beleidsonderzoek (VBO) is uitgereikt aan het rapport "'Met alles opnieuw starten’. Een onderzoek naar de werking van het programma van Stichting Nieuw Thuis Rotterdam" (Dagevos & Van der Linden, 2021). Het rapport is hier te lezen: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/135517/ 

Prizes

De tweejaarlijkse Prijs voor Beleidsonderzoek van de Nederlandse Sociologische Vereniging (NSV) en de Vereniging voor Beleidsonderzoek (VBO)May 2022