Description

Recognising the urgent need to respond to rapid societal and environmental change, resilience is one of the University of Twente’s spearheads. As an academic institution, we have a role to play in strengthening the resilience of the social, technological and environmental systems that support us. In this weekly series of the Resilience@UT programme, UT researchers share their personal reflections on current events and trends that impact our daily lives, exploring their implications for resilience. In this issue, Carmen Anthonj questions the generally-accepted view that adversity makes us stronger.

Period22 Sept 2023

Media coverage

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Media coverage

  • TitleResilience Reflection #8: Reconsidering Human Resilience
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletUT Resilience Reflections
    Media typeWeb
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    Date22/09/23
    DescriptionWhat makes us resilient, as human beings, to the challenges we are facing on an everyday basis? Or in a state of emergency? How do we learn to cope with difficult situations? How do we become resilient, and how do we stay resilient?

    Recognising the urgent need to respond to rapid societal and environmental change, resilience is one of the University of Twente’s spearheads. As an academic institution, we have a role to play in strengthening the resilience of the social, technological and environmental systems that support us. In this weekly series of the Resilience@UT programme, UT researchers share their personal reflections on current events and trends that impact our daily lives, exploring their implications for resilience. In this issue, Carmen Anthonj questions the generally-accepted view that adversity makes us stronger.
    URLhttps://www.utwente.nl/en/research/themes/resilient/news-and-events/news/2023/9/1151730/resilience-reflections-8-reconsidering-human-resilience
    PersonsCarmen Anthonj

Keywords

  • Resilience
  • Homelessness
  • Inequality