Projects
Crafing futures. Revising & transforming the evaluation, assessment & validation of craftsmanship to enhance its economic & societal impact KU Leuven
Crafting Futures examines and transforms the assessment & validation mechanisms by which crafts knowledge and know-how (CKK) is evaluated, to enhance its value added for economy and society in Flanders. Crafts are resources for competitiveness, innovation, sustainable development and quality of life, contributing to SDG4, 8 and 11. Yet the services and tools needed to foster the recognition of the value of CKK currently hamper the full ...
Crafting Futures. Revising & transforming the evaluation, assessment & validation of craftsmanship to enhance its economic & societal impact (CRAFTING FUTURES). University of Antwerp
Centre of Excellence on Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: Creating Knowledge & Engaging in Collaborative Action Hasselt University
Visual idea(l)s of Law & Justice: A legal, art & cultural historical inquiry into the iconology of Belgian law (1795-1914) Ghent University
This research scrutinzes the top down communication of the notions of law, as an ideal, and justice, as one of the means to reach that ideal, from the legal and political elite towards the population via art and iconography. The focus is on Belgian legal iconography during the long nineteenth century.
Procedural safeguards with regard to statements obtained from victims, witnesses and suspects in criminal proceedings in Belgium and England & Wales: a comparative study in the perspective of the prevention of miscarriages of justice KU Leuven
Inaccurate statements obtained from victims, witnesses and suspects or accused persons involved in criminal proceedings may hamper the truth finding process and are common in miscarriages of justice cases. Such inaccurate statements may not only be caused by individual factors (e.g. memory problems or mental disorders), but as well by the procedures adopted to obtain them. There is, however, hardly any knowledge on how information is actually ...
Deliberative public engagement on heritable human genome editing: South African & Flemish young adults Ghent University
Via the method of ‘virtual deliberative public engagement’ we can gain insight into the public opinion
on highly complex matters such as heritable human genome editing. In a previous study in the South
African (SA) context, participants in culturally mixed groups who engaged critically with policy
questions on this topic based their arguments on shared values enshrined by the South African
Constitution. However, since ...
Sabbatical Veerle Draulans: Co-creation of a gender mainstreaming policy in academia, with a special focus on gender & STEM KU Leuven
Collaboration with academic partners such as University of Limpopo (SA), African Doctoral Academy, Stellenbosch University (SA), Arba Minch, Bahir Dar & Mekelle University (Ethiopia), University of Rwanda: Rwandan Association for Women in Science & Technology, Rawise the great need for exchange on updated, clear criteria for a sustainable gender mainstreaming policy, in which the scientifically important concept of intersectionality ...
UniCycL: Uniform & General Framework for Textual Input Representation in Professional Cycling Talent Management Ghent University
Cycling teams are often multimillion companies that should be run as efficiently as possible, given the high monetary stakes. In practice, many decisions remain based on gut feeling, despite the growing list of answers and aids business analytics can offer. However, current developments in the field have a very narrowed scope due to the absence of an industry standard of data collection and representation. Accordingly, I propose the Universal ...
SBO project with a primary economic finality: Stretchable & UBiquitous LIquid Metal Electronics - SUBLIME Vrije Universiteit Brussel
society – potentially for applications in healthcare, wearables and soft
and human augmentation robotics – and can be achieved via the
pathway of liquid metal based stretchable electronics. In this project the
local interaction of the different materials; i.e. liquid metal, metals from
electronic components and stretchable encapsulant, is ...