Projects
Transparent And Resilient Gender Equality Through Integrated Monitoring Planning and Implementation (OZR EU BONUS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Transparent And Resilient Gender Equality Through Integrated Monitoring Planning and Implementation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bio-economic potential of alternative biofuel trees KU Leuven
Liquid biofuels are considered as a strategy for achieving energy security, stimulating rural development and mitigating climate change. Low-income countries largely focus on biofuel production from non-food crops and trees grown on underutilized lands, in order to minimize food, fuel and environmental trade-offs. Unfounded claims on the potential of such alternative biofuel crops led to large-scale investments, especially in jatropha ...
A Republic of Comrades. Elite and elitenetworks in Belgian interwar politics (1918-1940) KU Leuven
This thesis explores the existence and modus operandi of interwar elite networks and the ways they have (or tried to) influenced Belgian politics in the period between the two world wars. Traditionally, these two decades are associated with the breakthrough of democratization in the twenties, the success of the New Order movements in the thirties and political instability throughout the entire period. At the same time, researchers ...
The transformation of the socio-economic left-right cleavage? Voting behand changing attitudes towards economy and social policies (1990-2015). KU Leuven
One for all and all for cash? An inquiry into sustainable social network and collective action effects of cash transfers in rural Uganda. University of Antwerp
The Experimental Economics of Parenting: Evidence from Rural China KU Leuven
Early childhood—the period in utero to age five when neural and behavioral plasticity is highest—is a sensitive and critical period for skill development. Exposure to environmental risk factors (e.g., malnutrition or a lack of cognitive stimulation) during this early stage of life may lead to large inequalities in the opportunity for human development. An estimated 250 million (or 43%) of the children below the age of five in low- and ...
The reciprocal relationship between perceived employability and work-related learning KU Leuven
Employability (i.e., the individual’s chance in the labour market) is often advanced as a critical asset in the current labour market and central in debates on labour market flexicurity (i.e., how to combine the employer’s need for flexibility with the employee’s desire for security). To foster individual employability, policy-makers often advance learning as the key mechanism. Yet, the existing evidence on the relation between learning and ...
Soldiering the equipment or equipping the soldier? Emergent Forms of Belgian Military Life: Innovation, Corporality and Technology. A Comparative Ethnographic Study of the NATO Frigate Helicopter and the Pathfinder Detachment. KU Leuven
This PhD, embedded in the blossoming field of military anthropology, studies how Belgian soldiers deal with (new) military technology, and how technological innovations redefine and reshape social socio-professional structures and relationships in low- and high-tech military settings. The latter were represented by two ethnographic case studies: the NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH) and the Pathfinder Detachment.
Each military technology is ...