Jan Behrens, MSc: Drinking to get in or get out? Examining substance use and risk taking among at-risk youth (with dr. Jelle Sijtsema & dr. Wouter Kiekens)

  • Supervisors: Jelle Sijtsema, Wouter Kiekens, & René Veenstra (RUG)
  • Funding: Startersbeurs; Period: September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2029

Roy Krijger, MSc: The effectiveness of preventive contact interventions involving parents and youth in addressing juvenile delinquency

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra (RUG) and Eric Blaauw (Research Group on Addiction Science and Forensic Care, Hanze University of Applied Sciences)
  • Funding: Hanze University of Applied Sciences (2 days) and University of Groningen (1 day); Period: September 1, 2024 – August 31, 2028

Melissa González-Loyola, Msc: Substance use and the relation with high school social networks, and its moderators

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra and Diego Palacios (Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile)
  • Funding: CONICYT; Period: February 1, 2024 – January 31, 2028

Hannah Dietzenbacher, Msc: Criminal network disruption

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra and Gijs Huitsing (RUG)
  • Employed at Police East Netherlands; Period: September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2027
  • Recipient of the Gadourek Award 2023, the Jan Brouwer Award 2023, and the NSV Award 2023 for her outstanding master’s thesis on Criminal Network Disruption: A Simulation Study on the Effectiveness of Law Enforcement Intervention Strategies.

Alexandra Pior, Msc: Peer similarity in self-regulatory abilities

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra and Lydia Laninga-Wijnen (RUG)
  • Funding: NWO Gravitation (GUTS); Period: September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2027

Pau Vila Solar, MSc: Peer similarity in positive outcomes

  • Supervisors: Gert Stulp and René Veenstra (RUG)
  • Funding: NWO Gravitation (GUTS); Period: September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2027

Miriam Dietz, MSc: Contextual effects on sexually and gender diverse youth’s school outcomes and health

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra, Wouter Kiekens, and Laura Baams (RUG)
  • Funding: NRO; Period: September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2027

Zhe Dong, MSc: Antecedents and Consequences of Positive and Negative Classroom Leaders

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra and Gijs Huitsing (RUG)
  • Funding: Chinese Scholarship Council; Period: September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2025

Rosanne Spruijt, MSc: Parents and Teachers: Partners in the Fight against Bullying

  • Supervisors: Annelies Kassenberg (Hanze University of Applied Sciences), René Veenstra and Gijs Huitsing (RUG).
  • Funding: NRO; Period: June 14, 2021 – December 31, 2024 

Fenna van der Wijk, MSc: Multiplexity in criminal networks

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra and Gijs Huitsing (RUG)
  • Traineeship: David Bright (Deakin University, Australia)
  • Funding: PhD Fund Faculty BSS; Period: September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2024

Elsje de Vries, MSc: An Effective Anti-Bullying Program for Secondary Education

  • Supervisors: René Veenstra, Tessa Kaufman, and Gijs Huitsing (RUG)
  • Funding: NRO; Period: January 1, 2019 – August 31, 2023  
  • Currently employed at SLO Amersfoort.
  • First job after PhD: Postdoc at GION, University of Groningen, at the project Sports & Exercise