What provides meaning in life and how do people define meaning? UvA professor of Digital Humanities Rens Bod, in collaboration with the newspaper Trouw and Ipsos I&O, designed the ‘Meaning-Seeker Test’ to discover how the Dutch search for meaning. Many people in the Netherlands appear to be searching for meaning: no less than 73%. Striking results in the public survey include that the Dutch consider the pursuit of reliability essential and that demonstrating does not offer much meaning to many Dutch people.

Transparency and effective communication are critical for brands to gain and keep consumer trust according to new research.

Truancy rates have risen faster in developed English-speaking countries since the Covid-19 pandemic than in non-English-speaking countries, according to a new working paper by UCL researchers.

Teenage girls are also increasingly more likely to skip school than boys across Anglophone countries.