Very happy to share I've joined @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Sociology! My first week at the (home) office came with pretty winter landscapes, and I'm really excited to meet new colleagues and work together in research and teaching. ❄️

see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare

📢 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 at the @odissei.bsky.social 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, Utrecht @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social presented joint work (with @hermwerf.bsky.social & @carlahaelermans.bsky.social) on the Dutch case for 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 Thank you to the organisers for a great event! 📄LEARN Working paper coming soon! #LEARNIneq

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

@dieuwkezwier.bsky.social discusses how the primary school outcomes of Dutch pupils are shaped by neighbourhood and school contexts🧑‍🏫

@hermwerf.bsky.social presenting about a sorting and learning model of educational inequality. Although starting at 9am, packed room What did we learn? Negative effects of the gymnasium for low-SES students (for many outcomes) #ECSR2025

Preparing for the #ecsr2025 conference later this week. @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social and I present about A Sorting and Learning Model of Educational Inequality. The empirical case we study is the causal effect of the classical gymnasium on student achievement....

🎉 The last chapter of my dissertation is out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social! Many schools distinguish themselves with alternative pedagogical concepts or specialty themes. I study how these "profiles" contribute to school sorting by socio-economic status in NL. 🧵1/4 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Dieuwke Zwier finds that schools with progressive learning concepts are less popular among lower-SES students, while higher-SES students are comparatively less likely to choose labor market-themed schools. This article is open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧵1/8 In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation. Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have? 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

🔔New paper (early OA) in @europeansocieties.bsky.social! Net of performance, socio-economically advantaged students often choose more demanding educational pathways. I study such secondary effects in school choice and the role of social capital in shaping them. 1/5 🧵 🔗 doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Our latest policy brief is here! 🎉 Unseen Currents: How Peer Networks Shape School Choice and Inequality in Dutch Education, compiled by @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social & Doris Hanappi for the @horizoneu.bsky.social LEARN Project. 📑 Read the full brief here: zenodo.org/records/14500599

A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️ As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!) #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

@clic.bsky.social proudly congratulates the winner of the @isa-rc28.bsky.social conference bingo of this year's meeting in Milan 🥳 Congratulations @ivancanzio.bsky.social

☀️ RC28 starting in Milan tomorrow and we are very happy to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥 Join us in these great sessions👇

Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen. Daarom (checks notes): - heftige bezuinigingen - de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL) - morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen

It's great to see such a high turnout at the strike of the University of Amsterdam against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education! 🟥 @woinactie.bsky.social #DoeHetNiet

💡 Knowing the education system boosts student performance, especially for less privileged kids, reducing inequality 📈 New research by @sarageven.bsky.social & @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social shows cultural capital matters—more knowledge, better results. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New paper out with @sarageven.bsky.social (lead author) in @bjsociology.bsky.social! Read Sara's 🧵 or the Dutch summary by @fmg-uva.bsky.social linked below to learn more about the findings. 🔗 www.uva.nl/content/nieu...

New paper out with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social in @bjse.bsky.social on students’ interactional cultural capital and school performance @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave? My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

Curious about student sorting in Dutch schools? Join us for the seminar "Be True to Your School: School Profiling and School Sorting by Socio-Economic Status" by @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social (EUI & ROA Maastricht University). 📚🎓 📅 March 4, 14:30 - 16:00 💻 Online option available!

ROA is now also on Bluesky! We are a research institute at Maastricht University, specialized in applied social scientific research on of education and the labour market. We do both high-level scientific research and policy research. Follow us to learn more about our research and institute!

Extremely proud! 💖

‘Ongelijkheid wordt alleen maar groter’: sociaaleconomische status van ouders is van grote invloed op schoolkeuze van kind

De sociaaleconomische status van ouders heeft grote invloed op de middelbareschoolkeuze van kinderen, zegt promovendus @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social. “Segregatie is schadelijk omdat het, als je omringd wordt met kinderen zoals jij, moeilijk is te leren omgaan met andere perspectieven en diversiteit.”

Tuesday was a very special day for me. I successfully defended my PhD on socio-economic disparities and peer dynamics in school choice (cum laude 🎉) 1/2

Very proud of @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social who defended her PhD greatly today at the @fmg-uva.bsky.social. She received the well-deserved cum laude, which is the highest (and only) distinction in NL. This was a great project with @sarageven.bsky.social, @thijsbol.bsky.social and a team from Groningen

🏫Why are Dutch schools segregated by socio-economic background, and what role does school choice play in this? 👩‍🎓Tomorrow at 13:00, @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social defends the thesis 'Rhythms of Class: Socio-Economic Disparities and Peer Dynamics in Secondary School Choice'. 🎥 www.uva.nl/en/content/e...

Morgen (!) is het dan echt zo ver: de verdediging van mijn proefschrift. Lees meer over mijn onderzoek in dit artikel.

Over 2 weken verdedig ik mijn proefschrift 'Rhythms of Class: Socio-economic Disparities and Peer Dynamics in Secondary School Choice' aan de UvA @fmg-uva.bsky.social. Deze infographic geeft een overzicht van de bevindingen. 🔗 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻? Download mijn proefschrift: hdl.handle.net/11245.1/800a...

Excited to be part of this team & project! (even though you won't spot me in this picture yet) ⏩ Follow @learnineq.bsky.social for updates!

Third and final paper of my dissertation is published! Looking forward to my defense on February 7, 2025! 🌟

Dus nu hoeft slechts de omvang van 60% van een grote universiteit te worden bezuinigd. Meevallertje mensen.

Hoe scoren Nederlandse volwassenen op taal-, rekenvaardigheid en probleemoplossend vermogen in internationaal perspectief? 🌍Ontdek dit, de trends in kernvaardigheden voor Nederlandse volwassenen en meer in het nieuwe PIAAC-rapport👇 www.piaaconderzoek.nl

Back from the @odissei.bsky.social conference, where I presented work on socio-economic disparities in secondary school choice in NL. Missed it but curious? ODISSEI's data infrastructure even includes a slides/poster repository. See my slides here ⤵️ zenodo.org/records/1433...

A new blog on our paper on pandemic effects on track enrolment in the Netherlands, in npj Science of Learning. On the Springer Nature site. With @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social @sarageven.bsky.social @thijsbol.bsky.social & Carla Haelermans. communities.springernature.com/posts/pandem...

Are you using registry data to study inequalities in the labor market and in organizations? Check out the user-written Netherlands Integrated Data Infrastructure of Inequality in Organizations (NIDIO) by @cjanietz.bsky.social and me. @odissei.bsky.social @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social www.osf.io/9b2xh

🚨 New paper out on (inequality in) covid-19 effects on tracking outcomes and the role of students' academic and social embeddedness using linked register-survey-network 🧵 by @hermwerf.bsky.social (lead author) for a summary of the findings 🔽 🔗 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in Nature npj Science of Learning, with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social, @sarageven.bsky.social, @thijsbol.bsky.social and Carla Haelermans. About COVID19 effects on track enrolment in NL, and relations of the pandemic effects with student motivation, 1/n

LET'S GOOOOO

How effective have schools’ ICT resources been—not just in building students’ #digitalskills, but also in narrowing digital skill inequalities? Well... I bring good news, a challenge, and a hopeful twist. 🔍 More in our latest article (open access in Computers & Education!): doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I have seemingly become the department's starter pack creator, so on request by @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social I made a small pack with social and behavioural scientists at the University of Amsterdam. Heavy on the Sociology so far but leave a comment and I'll add you. #UvA

Exploring society through 🔬science and💃 dance My cousin & I discovered a shared passion for addressing societal issues through dance, now featured in The Teachers' Society! Is our shared interest 'nature' or 'nurture'? 🤔

Does educational expansion promote social mobility? In my latest study on 40 countries, that just came out in the American Sociological Review, it looks like it does. Integrating decomposition techniques with a comparative framework, 1/n

We're organizing a workshop in Amsterdam (26-27 May 2025)! Please submit if you're working on education, skills, or labor markets. The call for papers can be found below, more info on careerproject.eu/CAREER_works.... The deadline for submitting is December 20. Please spread the word ("retweet")

📢The ERC CAREER project is organizing a workshop on “Skills and Careers in Changing Labour Markets” in Amsterdam on 26-27 May 2025! 👉With keynotes from Siwei Cheng and Heike Solga Interested? Chech our call for papers and apply! careerproject.eu/CAREER_works...

Visualize and download school segregation data for every state, county, metro area, commuting zone, geo school district, and local educational agency in the US since 1991. edopportunity.org/segregation

New paper in American Educational Research Journal! I find that Dutch teachers in the same school differ in how they interpret aspects of their school's tracking procedure, and (relatedly) how they report to form decisions.

Some great tips for all register data (& Stata) enthusiasts ⬇️