Projects
The professional development of early career teachers: time and relationships during induction KU Leuven
The induction phase - encompassing the transition from teacher education to the professional practice and the first years in the job - is one of the most challenging career phases for teachers. Many teachers experience this phase as problematic and even decide to leave the teaching job within the first years. This research project argues that the persistence of this problem is at least partly due to the way it has been framed conceptually and ...
Fostering work-related learning within education and its relevance for early career success. KU Leuven
Teachers careers : Determinants of inflow, career duration and outflow. KU Leuven
Career choices and mental well-being in the context of family businesses and business families KU Leuven
A doctoral thesis in the domain of career choices and mental well-being in the context of family businesses and business families. The aim of the doctorate is to contribute to the knowledge of three main processes. First, the critical elements of the decision-making process of successors regarding their employment in the family business and career planning, with a focus on intra- and interpersonal conflicts. Second, how this decision-making ...
Ghent as an inclusive city for people in recovery from drug addiction: a career dating event for people in recovery and employers Ghent University
Drug addiction and recovery have been extensively studied. From this research, we know that most individuals who develop an addiction are able to recover from it.
Research shows that (stable) recovery can be explained by a combination of three factors. Personal factors such as age or internal motivation. Social factors such as a partner, child, a parent who motivates the person to recover. Societal factors, such as access to housing ...
Career counseling responsive to client needs: development of a screening tool KU Leuven
This research aims at developing a tool which indicates whether a person needs more than eight hours of career counseling. Employees in Flanders are entitled to two times four hours of career counseling every six years. For a minority, eight hours of counseling is not sufficient to get a satisfactory answer. They need more counseling hours and these can be awarded. To determine who is entitled to more hours, a tool is developed in this ...
Two elements for the new career guidance system: identification of employed people in need for intensive guidance and a monitoring system. KU Leuven
Does unemploymet early in the career inflict scars? Ghent University
This research project investigates whether unemployment early in the labor market career of Flemish youth inflicts scars in the long-run. We aim thereby at getting better insights in determinants of success in the career and which role bringing down youth unemployment plays herein.
Past the point of returnU+2026 Turning points in the criminal career of drug using offenders Ghent University
The aim of this research is to gain insight in the criminal and drug using-career of Belgian drug-using offenders. Besides a focus on the development of the criminal career of drug-using offenders, turning points will be identified which have an influence on their career. The results of the empirical test, will allow to further develop the existent theories concerning desistance.