Who we are
We are a group of researchers at Utrecht University, Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, working on the OWNERS project. The core research team consists of Borja Martinović (Principal Investigator), Tom Nijs (PhD student working on Project 1), Wybren Nooitgedagt (PhD student working on Project 2), and Nora Storz (PhD student working on Project 3). Our research interests are in the field of migration and intergroup relations and we are all part of the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER). The wider team includes collaborators in the nine countries that are covered by the OWNERS project.
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News

The article entitled “Autochthony and making amends to indigenous peoples: The mediating role of collective moral emotions”, written by Wybren […]
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Tom Nijs and Borja Martinovic were interviewed by Dutch newspaper Trouw about the OWNERS research project, and more specifically, about […]
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The article entitled “‘Losing what is OURS: The intergroup consequences of collective ownership threat”, written by Tom Nijs, Maykel Verkuyten, […]
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Borja Martinović presented the recent findings from the Owners project at the brown bag seminar of the Department of Applied […]
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Nora Storz and Wybren Nooitgedagt participated in the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) Summer School. The summer school was […]
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Borja Martinovic organized and chaired a symposium entitled “‘Our country’ or ‘their country’? Ownership claims and intergroup relations” at the […]
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The article entitled “Collective psychological ownership and reconciliation in territorial conflicts”, written by Nora Storz, Borja Martinovic, Maykel Verkuyten, Iris […]
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Tom Nijs presented a draft version of his paper entitled ”We were here first’: Autochthony belief as a driver of […]
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Tom Nijs wrote a blog post on the Dutch political science blog Stuk Rood Vlees about his paper on collective […]
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The article entitled “‘This Country is OURS’: The Exclusionary Potential of Collective Psychological Ownership”, written by Tom Nijs, Borja Martinovic, […]
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