Katerina Mavevska, Beyond the ethnic divide. Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2015 (co-promotor).
Judith Raven, Popular Support for Welfare Reforms: On Welfare State Preferences and Welfare State Reforms in the Netherlands. Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2012 (co-promotor).
Current PhD-students
Egbert Ribberink, Anti-religiosity, (Leuven University – co-promotor)
Lorenzo D’Hooge, Subjective class identity (Tilburg University -promotor)
Suardus Ebbinge, Democracy, Discontents, and Institutional Trust (Tilburg University – promotor)
Memberships of PhD-committees
Marjolein Jeene, Who should get what and why, under which conditions: Descriptions and explanations of public deservingness opinions, Tilburg University, 2015.
Kobe de Keere, Struggling over Self and Society: A Cultural-sociological Analysis of Individualism in Modern Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2015.
Rosa van Santen, Popularization and Personalization in Dutch Television Journalism. Ascor, University of Amsterdam, 2012.
Bram Spruyt, Living Apart Together? Over de gevolgen van opleidingsverschillen in de symbolische samenleving. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2012.
Giedo Jansen, Social Cleavages and Political Choices; Large-scale Comparisons of Social Class, Religion and Voting Behavior in Western Democracies, Radboud Universiteit, 2011.
Maarten Berg, Geluk in landen, Een empirische studie naar condities voor een gelukkige samenleving. Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2010.