We decide our future
The situation at the University of Amsterdam was nearly unbearable. Therefore we were lucky that we had found a nice house in the center of Amsterdam. Irmtraud made our life at home as pleasant as possible in the Austrian way in our Austrian corner which we had received of her parents for our marriage.
In this quiet atmosphere we had to decide again, after a year, how we could organize our future.
The relationship with the University
Willem was not planning to immediately give up his position at the University. We decided that we were going there only for teaching and organizing conferences.
Irmtraud had planned a small international conference on text analysis of political texts befor the end of her research contract
Together we had offered to give a seminar on arguments for and against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.
With help of two assistants Willem organized a big Methodology conference
Our research
With respect to our research we concluded that there was no space for it at the UvA, neither could we expect any subsidy from the Dutch Science Foundation. Therefore we decided that we had to organize our research via commercial projects if we wanted to continue with it.
For that purpose we have created the Sociometric Research Foundation (SRF). Irmtraud would manage the commercial research next to her own research. Some of my students from the Free University partially continued their research at the SRF.
We needed more space in our house for these activities therefore we tried get the lower part of the house free for these research activities. When that was realized we started the research
As we will report later it was immediately a big success not only commercially but also methodologically.
It turned out that we had made the proper decisions.
The relationship with the University
Willem was not planning to immediately give up his position at the University. We decided that we were going there only for teaching and organizing conferences.
Irmtraud had planned a small international conference on text analysis of political texts befor the end of her research contract
Together we had offered to give a seminar on arguments for and against the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe.
With help of two assistants Willem organized a big Methodology conference
Our research
With respect to our research we concluded that there was no space for it at the UvA, neither could we expect any subsidy from the Dutch Science Foundation. Therefore we decided that we had to organize our research via commercial projects if we wanted to continue with it.
For that purpose we have created the Sociometric Research Foundation (SRF). Irmtraud would manage the commercial research next to her own research. Some of my students from the Free University partially continued their research at the SRF.
We needed more space in our house for these activities therefore we tried get the lower part of the house free for these research activities. When that was realized we started the research
As we will report later it was immediately a big success not only commercially but also methodologically.
It turned out that we had made the proper decisions.