Projects
Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts. University of Antwerp
A User-Centered Design Approach to Juiciness in Touch-Typing Applications for Children with Specific Learning Disorders KU Leuven
People interact with computers through traditional interfaces like a keyboard, a mouse and a touch screen. These devices are optimized for the ‘average’ user, under the assumption of ‘normal’ apabilities. However, many users lack some skills, cognitive or perceptual motor skills or a combination, that would allow them to interact with the traditional computing system. This also deprives them from further progress, although they have the ...
Beauty and Inequality: Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries KU Leuven
How does physical beauty contribute to social inequality? This innovative, multidisciplinary, compar-ative project aims to build a comprehensive new theory that explains how evaluations of physical ap-pearance work, and how they re/produce durable inequalities in today’s media-saturated, service-based, globalized consumer societies. It hypothesizes that 1. in 21st century societies beauty has be-come an important form of capital, for all ...
Education and sociocultural identification: Facilitating learning effects through congruence. KU Leuven
In most contemporary Western educational systems, sociocultural inequalities remain prominent. Nevertheless, the functionalist meritocratic perspective—which claims that by focusing on students’ own achievement, the educational system limits the privileges associated with ascription, such as wealth and family background—has further permeated the common sense in recent decades. This perspective has been severely criticized by interactionism ...
Surface modification of plant protein based nanoparticles: a tool to improve their functional properties KU Leuven
Interest in replacing animal by plant proteins in food systems is increasing. For various reasons, such replacement is unfortunately not straightforward. A main hurdle in this regard is the often limited solubility of plant proteins in aqueous media, which notably reduces their applicability in many foods. A possible solution is to produce protein nanoparticles (NPs) that are colloidally stable in aqueous systems. The solubility profile of ...
Scientific personae in cultural encounters in twentieth century Europe (SPICE). KU Leuven
Beauty and Inequality Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries and Social Dis/advantage in Five Global Cities KU Leuven
How does physical beauty contribute to social inequality? This innovative, multi-disciplinary compara- tive project aims to build a comprehensive new theory that explains how evaluations of physical appear- ance work, and how they re/produce durable inequalities in today’s media-saturated, service-based, consumer societies. It hypothesizes that 1. in contemporary societies beauty has become an important form of capital, for all genders, ...
Beauty and Inequality: Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries and Social Dis/advantage in Five Global Cities KU Leuven
How does physical beauty contribute to social inequality? This innovative multi-disciplinary comparative project aims to build a comprehensive new theory that explains how evaluations of physical appearance work, and how they re/produce durable inequalities in today’s media-saturated, service-based consumer societies. It hypothesizes that 1. in contemporary societies beauty is an important form of capital for all genders over the life-course; ...
Shared Leadership – The Key to Optimal Team Functioning? KU Leuven
Leadership, and especially effective leadership, has inspired authors from the oldest works in literature (e.g., The Odyssey) up to recent authors (e.g., John C. Maxwell, Simon Sinek, and Brené Brown). The age-old fascination for the perfect leadership model is almost akin to the search for the holy grail. Much like the tales on this legendary quest appealed to people’s fascination, the allure of great leadership has also inspired ...