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U A U C U Student Research Exchange Collected Papers 2016 UAUCU Student Research Exchange Collected Papers 2016 UAUCU Student Research Exchange Collected Papers 2016 Anne Maamke Boonstra Maja Vasić Fardau Bamberger Felishah Ponson Dahariana Evertsz Nurianne Dhalía Arias Ghislaine Nicolaas Giancarla Lobbrecht Gianira Maduro Mirjam Snitjer Anniek van Wezel Lizanne Takke Jochem Pennekamp Introduction to the second edition of the UAUCU Student Research Exchange Collected Papers In this publication you will find papers and reflections book. It is an interesting experience to read the reflections that were written by thirteen participants in the UAUCU of the participants and to see how strong the collaboration student research exchange project 2016, a project that and support has been among the students. These reflections offers students from University College Utrecht (UCU), tell you more about the core of this project: it is not only University Utrecht (UU) and the University of Aruba (UA) about doing research and about making student research the opportunity to conduct research in a multidisciplinary meaningful; it is also about the realization that we can international student team. All students have submitted achieve more if we approach problems from several papers that reflect the diversity of approaches that the perspectives at the same time, and work together in teams students have followed. The 2015 edition of this program that are multidisciplinary and as such complementary. has proven to be successful: three papers have led to international publications and two papers have resulted The papers in this volume are the product of peer to peer in thesis that received awards. We wish the same for the learning: the students in the research team have provided participants in the 2016 edition. each other with feedback on content, method, style, language and structure. The papers have been published On the following pages you will find papers on language and as they were submitted by the students; including the odd culture, health care development, international relations spelling mistake, grammatical error, raw opinion or hasty and diplomacy, labor and productivity, organizational generalization. transitions and sustainability. While reading you will notice that the research was in different stages of completion Looking back at this second year of the project, one realizes at the time of publication of this book: for some of the how many people have been involved. It is impossible to participants, the field research is completed but data still name everybody; many people are crucial to the success of need to be interpreted, for some the field research still a project like this. For everybody who has been part of this has to start, and for some, the research and analysis have project as (guest) lecturer, supervisor, manager, initiator, been completed. Some students are still struggling with facilitator, student, interviewee, respondent, guide, coach the interpretation and presentation of their findings. Based or mentor: thank you very much for your support! upon this fieldwork the student will write their bachelor’s or master’s thesis. The research interests of the students Eric Mijts & Jocelyn Ballantyne, are diverse but show a common interest in sustainable Project coordinators UAUCU development and it is clear from the final products that the collaboration in the multidisciplinary team has influenced their approach to their research topics. Every student has written a reflection on his or her experiences during the project that you will find in this