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This is the general faculty research group of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences.
Citizenship, Equality & Diversity (CED) University of Antwerp
The research group focuses on issues of inequality and equality in relation to the diversity characterising our contemporary society, mainly within a political science frame, but also connecting to social and human science more broadly. Our research is driven by a concern for detecting, analysing and understanding mechanisms and causes of inequality and by the question of how to define and promote the equality of social groups in our ...
Schools & Policy (SeP) University of Antwerp
The research activities of the team are located on the intersection between schools and policy. This perspective embraces policy research as well as more fundamental research on the influence of schools on citizens values and political knowledge. The policy-oriented research is concerned with research into educational attainment and equal opportunity-policies (in Flanders), the financing-mechanisms of the Flemish educational system and the ...
Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group KU Leuven
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The general mission of the Policy in Sports & Physical Activity Research Group is to conduct and provide high quality research and education in the field of human kinesiology, including sports economics, sports history, sports management, sports marketing, sports policy, sports politics and sports sociology.
The research group strives to understand the relation between human movement and society both from a ...
Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven KU Leuven
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The research group Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven, investigates international actors (institutions, movements and individuals), global-local relationships and transnational phenomena. Its research focus lies on agency and agenda-setting as well as the bottom-up processes which brought about new organized forms of trans- and international interaction in the last 200 years. Conceptual frameworks of acting and thinking beyond the ...
Politics & Public Governance University of Antwerp
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The first research axis is labelled 'Diversity and equality in politics & public governance'. It studies how different needs and interests are mobilised, recognized and represented in political and administrative decision-making, how groups organize to compete for influence, and how politics and governance (re-)produce equality and inequality. Focus is on how societal, political and administrative institutions and practices bring about ...
Public Administration & Management University of Antwerp
Both the practice and the discipline of public administration underwent a fundamental transformation over the last decades. Under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), a multitude of reforms has been initiated in public sectors globally. Competition, 'agencification' and organizational autonomy, performance-based contracts, measurement, flexibility and privatisation are some of the keywords of this globalization of reform ideas. It is an ...
Faculty Library & ICT Ghent University
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Logistics service to support the faculty library & ICT infrastructure of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Neuro-Aging & Viro-Immunotherapy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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The ‘Neuro-Aging’ team focuses on glutamate transport, with emphasis on system xc - , in health and disease. We have ongoing projects on the role of system xc - or the cystine/glutamate antiporter in e.g. Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and (central effects of) (pancreatic) cancer. In most of these projects, neuroimmune communication is receiving increasing attention. Our overall hypothesis that inhibition of system xc - might be a ...