Projects
Towards an Object-Oriented-Anthropology. Re-assessing Human Agency in New Materialist Ethics. University of Antwerp
The role of patient agency in the psychotherapeutic process: a mixed methods study. Ghent University
The patient is an active agent in his therapeutic process and is considered the most important determinant of psychotherapy outcome. The concept of patient agency refers to this characteristic to actively generate change. We will investigate whether patient agency can predict therapy outcome and how it comes about in the therapist-patient interaction.
Perception and agency. Helmholtz's psycho-physiological optics as a forerunner of the contemporary agentive/sensorimotor approach to human vision Ghent University
This project will examine the historical continuity between Hermann von Helmholtz's pchycophysiological optics and the contemporary sensorimotor/enactive approach to perception. On the basis of an analysis of (i) Helmholtz's conceptualisation of the problem of perception and (ii) the philosphical background of his optics (historical part), a critical perspective will be offered on the sensorimotor/enactive approach (comparative/systematic ...
Meshed Cognition: a novel approach to agency and self-control. University of Antwerp
Sense of agency in speech production Ghent University
Sense of agency is the feeling that we as acting individuals have when we perceive that we are controlling our own actions. Using a novel real-time speech manipulation platform, topical anaesthesia to remove oral tactile feedback, and EEG, we will explore the role of auditory and tactile feedback for the formation of sense of agency over our own speech.
Teacher agency in (inter)action: the discursive situatedness of opportunities KU Leuven
This dissertation aims to enhance our understanding of how opportunities for teacher agency are not inherent in a context, but are constructed in discursive (inter)actions. Starting from a discursive perspective, this dissertation draws on and integrates theoretical-conceptual tools from positioning theory (PT) and frame analysis (FA), both of which focus on the dynamic co-construction of meaning. The ways in which teachers and situations ...
The rol of agency in the desistanceprocess of drug-using offenders Ghent University
This research proposal aims to gain insight in the role of agency in the desistance process of drug-using offenders. besides a focus on the development of their desistanceprocess, the role of agency in this process will be identified. The results of this empirical test will allow to develop policy and theoretical recommendations concerning the influence of agency in the desistance process of drug-using offenders.
Negotiating consent: patient agency and gynaecological surgery (France and the Netherlands, 1890s-1960s) KU Leuven
An agency graded theory of crime. An integrated explanation of the onset and endphase of youth crime. KU Leuven
Criminological theory has primarily taken on the task of examining ‘determining’ features – actors’ so called structure – as causal factors forcrime. The individual actor amid of this causality and his ‘choice’ to commit crime – captured by the notion of human agency – are however obscured from these etiological explanations. Nevertheless, the criminal actor’s choice – or responsibility – is actually one of criminal law’s mostessential ...