Name Activity "Doctoral Schools" "Five Doctoral Schools support doctoral students during their research training at Ghent University. The Doctoral Schools organise specialist courses and transferable skills seminars for PhD students." "Doctoral School of Natural Sciences" "Frank Witlox" "Doctoral School of Natural Sciences" "Doctoral School of Social and Behavioural Sciences" "Bart CockxAndré VandierendonckHans Verstraeten" "Social sciences ; Behavioural sciences" "Doctoral School of (Bioscience) Engineering" "Paul Van der Meeren" "Bioscience Engineering ; Engineering" "Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities and Law" "Tom Vander Beken" "Arts ; Humanities ; Law" "Doctoral School of Life Sciences and Medicine" "Patrick Calders" "Life sciences ; Medicine" "Department of Educational Studies" "Martin Valcke" "The research of the Department of Educational Studies focuses on the following themes:Culture and LiteracyHigher Education and Education PolicyInnovative approaches in educationInnovation in the apprenticeshipQuality of educationLearning difficultiesProfessional development educatorsEducation policy and education managementAdult educationScientific literacy" "Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology" "Hans Geybels" "This Research centre consists of the Liturgical Studies Institute and the Academic Centre for Practical Theology.PASTORAL THEOLOGY - Religion in Contemporary Society - New Religious Movements and Trends - Contemporary Church Life - Catholic Church Personnel - Christian Witness and Communication of Faith - Pastoral Supervision - Training of Pastoral Workers in Parishes, Schools, Health care organizations etc... Catholic School: achieved in 1998: publication in English of 'The Management and leadership of Christians Schools'. Groot- Bijgaarden/Rome, 1998, 470pp. SACRAMENTOLOGY & LITURGY - Historical Research - Theology of Sacraments and Liturgy - Liturgy and Pastoral care - Postmodern Sacramento-theology: two colloquia are programmes:1) Flanders & Vliebergh Courses in august 1999; 2) International congres in November 1999. CATECHESIS AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION - Fundamental Catechetics - History of Catechesis - Religious Education Programmes in Schools - Religious Education of Adults and Communication of Faith in families - Training of Catechists and Teachers of Religion - Multimedia and Religious Formation: achieved in 1998: 1)publication of a book by H. Lombaerts & H. Roebben (Ed.), 'Gods Website', Acco Leuven 1998, 214 pp. 2)Creation of a website on the internet: http//www.kuleuven.ac.be/godinet for the initial and ongoing training of teachers of Religions, introducing a new didactical/educational concept. MISSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION - Anthropology of Religion and Religious Anthropology - History and Theology of the Third Church - Theology of Non-Christian Religions - World Religions - Christianity and Asian Religions" "Department of Linguistics" "Geert Jacobs" "Traditionally, Linguistics at Ghent University has had a broad research focus, covering a wide spectrum of topics ranging from historical linguistics (Indo-European, Greek and Latin, Romance and Germanic languages), dialectology, lexicology, lexicography, the study of the grammar of several languages, to sociolinguistics, pragmatics and interaction. However, there has always been a special interest in comparative research and variational linguistics. This includes the comparison of linguistic structures, variation and processes in the different languages taught in the BA and MA programmes and the comparison of different linguistic theories, methods and frameworks." "Department of Latin and Greek" Linguistics