Name Activity "Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology" "The research focuses on the synergy between fundamental and applied or policy-relevant research with target groups of normal and clinical populations of different ages. Illustrative of our policy is research on motivational processes, education and socialization; clinical research on obesity and eating disorders; research on personality, temperament and development of maladaptive traits and social psychological research on decision-making processes, procedural justice, prejudices and political attitudes. Our research uses diverse research methods such as questionnaire research, longitudinal designs, experiments and multiple informants." "Genetic and Social Psychology" "Topic A : Coping processes and coping strategies of adults, children and family systems related to significant life events. - -Parent and elder abuse.- -Artificial insemination - IVF oocyte donation : effects on parent child relationships.- -Topic B: Explorative empirical research on problems related to socialisation and education. - -Prevention of (functional) illiteracy in elementary (primary) school. - -Illiteracy in Flanders: detection of high risk children and adolescents.- -Functional Illiteracy in society: causes and effects (psycho-social and economic aspects). - -Juvenile delinquency: contents, treatment and prevention.- -Topic C : Clinical Assessment: Children and Adolescents.- -Children as participants in family-assessments" "Biomechanics and Human Biometry" "The main research topics of the department BIOM are: 1. Three-dimensional kinematics of human movements; 2. Biomechanical simulation modelling and optimisation of sports movements; 3. Podiatric biomechanics; 4. Computerised gait analysis; 5. Tracking of health & performance related fitness from adolescence to adulthood; 6. Influence of environmental factors on adult life style; 7. Monitoring fitness & physical activity of Flemish youth and young adults; 8. Longitudinal analysis of human growth and physical performance and their interactions (ages 6-18); 9. Development of new measuring techniques, research designs and software programmes; 10. Development of user-friendly programmes for growth curves modelling; 11. Multigenerational Vegetarian Families Study (MUVEFAST); 12. Growth, development and physical fitness of vegetarians, a prospective study; 13. Nutritional habits, health and fitness of young ballet dancers; 14. Outstanding athletic performances by vegetarians; 15. Determining the locus of sequential effects in serial reaction time-task in the human information processing system; 16. Implicit learning of stimulus or movement sequences in young and other adults; 17. Facilitating stimulus-response processing routes with sequential effects and the Simon effect." "Computer Science Technology, Group T Leuven Campus" "The unit investigates, develops and implements novel techniques to enhance the human condition with embodied media" "Department of Dentistry" "Scientists in dentistry are primarily concerned with the whole of science regarding human development, construction, properties, functions and disease phenomena of the chewing system, prevention, including its medical and surgical therapy." "Department of Industrial System and Product Design" "Production technology" "Department of Public health" "The department of Public Health is a department of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. It focuses on education and research in the domains of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Food and Food Safety, Health Promotion and Education, Health Economics, Medical Informatics and Statistics, Nursing Science and Occupational and Environmental Health." "Department of Public Health and Primary Care" "Pascal Borry" "The Department of Public Health and Primary Care is a multidisciplinary department with a focus on community health, best practice and health policy. The department aims at supplying health care professionals and institutions with the insights, concepts and techniques that will enable them to respond optimally to the health needs and expectations of patient and society. The department endorses the international research and policy priority of ‘Living well with chronic illness’ by building on existing, productive research programs among various disciplines.The Department consists of 9 research units: Environment and Health; Academic Centre for Nursing and Midwifery; Academic centre for General Practise; Leuven Biostatistics and statistical Bioinformatics Centre; Interfaculty Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law; Emergency Medicine; Biomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit; Epidemiology Research Group; Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy;" "Department of Special Needs Education" "Wouter Vanderplasschen" "The Department of Orthopedagogics aims to investigate the behavior of children and adults in difficult educational and living situations, starting from an integrative, inclusive and participatory viewpoint. At present, the department is composed of two research domains: Research lines for the field of Orthopedagogics and Orthoagogics (Behavioral Disorders, Drug Abuse and Assistance, Orthopedagogical Care Organization, Families and Social Networks, Family Diagnostics, Multi-, Inter- and Transculturalization, Refugees and Migrants, etc.). Research lines for the field of Orthopedagogics (participation and inclusive education, etc.)." "Department of Uro-gynaecology" "The Gynaecology Department combines three subspecialisms: General gynaecology deals with all benign gynecological problems (including children and adolescents), Pelvian oncology with malignant genital organs, breast cancer with benign and malignant breast disorders. The renowned International Center for Reproductive Health is also part of this department. The Urology Department examines kidney, bladder and male genital disorders, both surgical and functional disorders, eg prostate cancer, incontinence in women and children and congenital disorders of the urogenital organs. This department specializes in complex oncology surgery, child restology, reconstructive and functional urology."