Projects
Natural variation in life-history traits and corresponding trade-offs between roof- and ground-nesting Herring gulls in colonies along the Flemish and Dutch (Zeeland) North Sea coast. Ghent University
The following questions are addressed: (i) Do life-history traits and phenotypic traits differ among L. argentatus colonies that differ in structure and breeding density, and does this affect trade-off functions and reaction norms ? (ii) Are trade-offs masked by variation in food availability? (iii) Do trade-off functions correlate with environmental parameters, genetic drift, parental investment, dispersal and maturation rates.
Rethinking the decline-thesis: the diminishing position of woman in an urban context during the late middle ages KU Leuven
In my PhD project, titled Dismantling the Borders, I have compared women's labour opportunities in Brabant and Biscay in the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. Since the 1980s, scholars have debated differences in women's economic positions between premodern northern and southern Europe. Scholars arguing for such differences have often explained them based on diverging legal frameworks and family structures in the two regions. ...
The printer's widow: gender, family and editorial choices in early modern Antwerp, Louvain and Douai (long 16th - 17th centuries) KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man’s world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men’s work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...
Contractors, master craftsmen, workers and merchants. Productionrelations in construction in Brussels, 1685-1789 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scientific research in economic and city history. University of Antwerp
The Struggle for Urban Space in the Later Medieval City. The Case of Bruges (c. 1300 - c. 1580) Ghent University
Depending on socio-economic, political and symbolic interests of various actors, groups and institutions medieval urban space was appropriated, controlled, fragmented, recomposed, reorganized, reinvented and put to other usages. This project, which focuses in a comparative perspective on late medieval Bruges, considers power and conflict as central to the formation of medieval urban landscapes.
Civil society in late medieval and early modern Mechelen. The development and function of urban club life, 1400-1800 University of Antwerp
Fostering Well-being among Early Adolescents: Testing a Need Crafting Prevention Program Ghent University
It is crucial to focus on the strengthening of adolescents’ resilience and well-being. This is because
adolescents are, with increasing age, more vulnerable for depressive symptoms and low intrinsic
academic motivation. During adolescence, the satisfaction of the psychological needs for autonomy,
relatedness, and competence, which serves as a catalyzer of growth, is increasingly threatened.
Therefore, from a prevention ...
Bioreceptive Wood (Bio+W) KU Leuven
In the face of the rising effects of climate change in cities, "Bioreceptive Wood” (Bio+W) explores enlivening building surfaces through the structured patterning of sustainably sourced, untreated wood. Bioreceptive design promotes secondary colonisation by a range of plants to capture carbon and nitrogen by strategically directing the flow of water over wooden surfaces, which activates the growth of simple plants without roots, while ...