"In the sharing economy, rating systems are used to create mutual trust but still discrimination and exclusion play a role. To what extent can those rating systems prevent this?"
 

Rense Corten is associate professor at the Department of Sociology. His research revolves around the themes of cooperation, trust, and (the dynamics of) social networks, with empirical applications including adolescent networks, social media, the sharing economy, online criminal networks, and laboratory experiments. In 2016 he received an NWO Vidi grant for a research project on the origins and consequences of trust in the sharing economy. 

He obtained his PhD in social sciences in 2009 and his doctorate in sociology in 2004 at Utrecht University.