Name Responsible Activity "Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality" "Gily Coene" "The basic objective of the RHEA Expertise Center is to contribute to knowledge development on gender, diversity and intersectionality through scientific and interdisciplinary research and education. RHEA is an interfaculty research group and is led by Gily Coene (director) and Karen Celis (codirector). Rhea also provides a platform for researchers from various VUB departments and faculties and also provides advice on equal opportunities and diversity policies." "Department of Communication Sciences" "Sofie Van Bauwel" "The department consists of five research centres: Center for Persuasive Communication (CEPEC; research on Communication Management), Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS; research on the role that screen and media culture plays in disseminating tastes, values and ideology in society), Center for Journalism Studies (CJS; research on recent developments within the field of journalism and education about U+2018journalism studiesU+2019), Media, innovation and communication technologies (MICT; fundamental social scientific research as well as policy oriented research in the field of new media and information and communication technologies), Health, Media and Society (HM&S; investigates from a transdisciplinary perspective how health issues are constructed through media coverage and how audiences deconstruct these health issues)" "Brussels Center for Competition Policy" "Caroline Buts" "Research Department" "Ignace Lemahieu" "The Directorate for Research Matters is responsible for supporting the research activities at the university."