UARC Newsletter August
The Research Center is off to great start of the new Academic year - we already organized a workshop on Narrative CVs on 18 August (slides)! We are currently reviewing the applications for the now closed Project Administrator Vacancy for the Dutch Caribbean Digital Competence Network, and we are working towards the internal deadlines of the NWO Caribbean Research – PhD Scholarships 2025! We also congratulate Eric Mijts, our Research Center Coordinator, with his 25 year work anniversary at the UA! We are looking forward to dive into the new academic year and hope to see you during one of our upcoming sessions!
UARC writing sessions
Join the Research Writing Sprints on 1 September (2-4 PM, MC Chapel) or 17 September (10-12 AM, MC Chapel), to get some writing done! You can sign up if you want to receive a calendar invite.
Fellowship and Funding opportunities
The Caribbean Oxford Initiative (CaribOx) is a new visiting fellowship (for PhD holders) and travel grants designed to stimulate purposeful and long-lasting collaboration between researchers from institutions in the Caribbean and the University of Oxford. Apply before 19 September 12 PM, or start preparing for the next round in 2026/2027!
The Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid has opened up a subsidieregeling for Maatschappelijke initiatieven trans-Atlantisch slavernijverleden voor het Caribisch deel van het Koninkrijk. Apply by 12 September for the current opportunity (Category 1).
Reminder: The Software Sustainability Institute opened their Fellowship applications for 2026! The Fellowship is an opportunity to join a supportive network of computational enthusiasts, benefit from a mentor, and obtain some financial support for a project or traveling (£4,000). Apply before 6 October, and reach out to Esther if you have any questions!
Events and Courses
CodeRefinery is offering a free online workshop on tools and techniques for more reproducible research from 9-11 September 2025 plus 6 following Wednesdays. While it starts at 5AM there is also a livestream that you can catch up on!
Research highlight - Miranda Gielen
Miranda’s research on Doing justice to the past: correcting the legacy of ‘slave names’ was covered by Diario!
The research article (Dutch) and summaries in English, Papiamento and Dutch are available on our Open Knowledge Repository. Get in touch with the Research Center if you have an article that can be summarized and translated!
Next steps for the Caribbean Research – PhD Scholarships 2025 call
In order to obtain a signed Institutional Declaration Form needed for the call, please keep in mind the upcoming deadlines:
Category A: Submit your full NWO application to the Research Center by 29 August, 17:00 PM.
Category B: Submit your filled in and signed supervision declaration form and a filled university declaration form by 5 September 11:00 AM to the Research Center. (So not your preproposal form itself, unless you want to receive feedback).
PhD of the Future
In this summary of a discussion session the Dutch PNN (Promovendi Network Netherlands) is stressing that there is a need to recognize the research process as a whole, and not just the publication of articles, when a PhD thesis is assessed (see also the survey that they conducted on this topic among PhD candidates in 2020).
UARC upcoming and past events
Up next:
UARC goes Wikipedia on 24 September from 12-2 PM!
Past events:
29 January 2025 - Building your Research Profile
4 March 2025 - Open Data intro + Bring your own Data (slides)
15 April 2025 - Research Guidelines Info session (Guidelines)
22 April 2025 - Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (Event Summary)
7 July 2025 - Ban papia cu Liesje Proveyer - Aruban Youth’s needs (Event Summary)
18 August 2025- Evidenced-based/Narrative CVs (slides)
As well as Research Writing Sprints on 30 June, 9 and 21 July, and the 19 August 2025.