OWNERS is a 5-year research project (2017-2022) funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded to Dr. Borja Martinović at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The project examines collective psychological ownership (CPO) - a sense that a territory belongs to one's ethnic group.
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Ownership claims in Western Europe
Ownership claims in settler societies
Ownership claims in conflict regionsWho 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
Rae and Dan Landis Outstanding Dissertation Award
On 26 July 2023 Wybren Nooigedagt received the Rae and Dan Landis Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Association for […]
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2022 SPSP Student Publication Award
Tom Nijs won the 2022 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Student Publication Award for his paper ‘The two […]
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Honorable Mention at ISPP Best Dissertation Award 2023
Tom Nijs was a runner-up for the Best Dissertation Award of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) and received […]
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Findings from the OWNERS project presented at the EASP meeting in Krakow
In June 2023 Borja Martinović took part in a symposium on the ‘Legacies of colonialism and present-day intergroup relations’ and […]
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New publication in the European Journal of Social Psychology
The master’s thesis of Kaja Warnke, co-authored by Borja Martinović and Nimrod Rosler, has been published in the European Journal […]
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New publication in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology
The master’s thesis of Lianne Straver, co-authored by Borja Martinović, Tom Nijs, Wybren Nooitgedagt and Nora Storz has been accepted […]
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New publication in the European Review of Social Psychology
Borja Martinović and Maykel Verkuyten have published a review article about the OWNERS research line in the European Review of […]
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New publication in Ethnic and Racial Studies
The article entitled ‘“These benefits are ours because we were here first”: Relating autochthony to welfare chauvinism and welfare ethnocentrism’, […]
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OWNERS project featured in the Croatian Emigrant Almanac 2023
Borja Martinović’s research on ownership was featured in the Science section of the Croatian Emigrant Almanac published in 2023. In […]
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Experiment on ownership featured in a booklet for children
Borja Martinović was one of the 20 researchers from Utrecht University whose research was featured in the booklet ‘Zoek het […]
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