Pyrrhula provides social research consultancy. Pyrrhula helps organizations to successfully design and run research projects. Pyrrhula provides support in doing review studies, running secondary data analyses, and in indepth interviewing of groups and individuals. It also helps build research competencies of professionals in organizations and assists in promoting their research results (e.g. in social media). Pyrrhula often works at the nexus of science, policy, and practice. A common focus of research is participation, either in the cultural domain, in the workplace, in education, and/or in civil society.

Henk Vinken

Henk is a sociologist (PhD 1997). He founded Pyrrhula, Social Research Network, late 2005 and he served as a research consultant, (senior) research fellow, and visiting scholar at several research institutes and universities in the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, and the USA. Check his full resume: [PDF]. Last update April 15, 2012.

Highlight publications in Dutch

Vinken, H. (2012). Sociale Activering in Nederland. Conclusies en aanbevelingen uit een recent onderzoek. Tilburg: Pyrrhula, Social Research Network. [PDF]

Look at the [website] of the Open University's LOOK (fka Ruud de Moor Centre) for the full series of Research Reports Leraar24 (see Projects for more details on the Leraar24-project).

Highlight publications in other languages

Vinken, H. (2012). Soziale Aktivierung in den Niederlanden und Deutschland. Arbeitstagung "Zukunft der Arbeitsförderung nach der Instrumentenreform", Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bundesverband e.V., Berlin, 15.-16. März 2012. [PPT]

Vinken, H. (2011, December). From youth culture to street culture in the Netherlands. Paper prepared for the workshop Youth Culture, Identity, and the Public Sphere", Japan Youth Study Group, Sophia University, Tokyo. [PDF][PPT]

Vinken, H. & P. Ester (2011). Social activation policy in the Netherlands. Practices, problems and promises. Tilburg: Pyrrhula, Social Research Network. [PDF]

Vinken, H., Y. Nishimura, B. White & M. Deguchi (Eds.) (2010). Civic engagement in contemporary Japan. Established and emerging repertoires. New York: Springer. [Amazon]