Projects
Generalists at work! University of Antwerp
Moving to and from Ghent KU Leuven
Managing Human Capital in a sustainable manner University of Antwerp
Child poverty, childhood disability and the work-care nexus: Data collection and a first empirical exploration of the social policy package in Flanders University of Antwerp
Reconciling environmental and social goals in the transition towards a low-carbon society (SUSPENS) University of Antwerp
Popping smart pills: prescription stimulant misuse by university and college students in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Emotion in context: Constructions of anger and shame in four cultures KU Leuven
Theories of emotion have typically focused on nonsocial and short-lived situations such as physical threats. Yet most of our emotions occur in the context of ongoing interactions with others. The proposed research takes a social approach to emotion, by studying emotions as dynamic processes between people. Our central aim is to show that cultural differences in emotional interactions are not random, but can be understood from the way they ...
Monitoring the costs of educational participation. KU Leuven
Making a university. Introductory notes on an Ecology of Study Practices KU Leuven
The question of how the university can relate to the world is centuries old. The poles of the debate can
be characterized by the plea for an increasing instrumentalization of the university as a producer and
provider of useful knowledge on the one hand (cf. the knowledge factory), and the defense of the
university as an autonomous space for free inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake
on the other ...