Projects
Marketization of care and social justice: a public administration – social work perspective on the meaning of personal care budgets in care for mentally disabled people. Ghent University
With this interdisciplinary project, we want to study the right to care for mentally disabled people in changing policy and administrative context. Via the combination of public administration and social work knowledge, we want to investigate the administrative and organisational conditions for the right to care in the changing system of personal care budgets in Flanders.
Empowerment of Disabled people through the User Co-production of Assistive Technology KU Leuven
EDUCAT will develop and test, by clinical trials, new Assistive Technologies (AT) for disabled people having motor impairment or/and neurological disorders. The new Assistive Technologies developed will be able to adapt their assistance to the user’s needs and give feedback to users in response to their needs.
Specifically; a system will be produced which will self-adapt to an individual’s requirements, and disabilities, as they ...
How do disabled architects design? Exploring the potential of embodiment in architectural design KU Leuven
Designers of products, software, buildings and environments increasingly involve users in the design process. This tendency demonstrates the need for new ways of designing, which attempt to restore the feedback loop between processes of design and practices of use that got interrupted since the industrial revolution. This restoring remains limited, however: even if users are involved in design, designers cannot gain direct access to their ...
Is a work strategy for reducing child poverty amongst disabled children effective or a shot misfired? An empirical exploration of child poverty, childhood disability and the work-care nexus in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Is a work strategy for reducing child poverty amongst disabled children effective or a shot misfired? An empirical exploration of child poverty, childhood disability and the work-care nexus in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Disability and the Great War: the re-education of disabled soldiers in Belgium, 1914-1940. KU Leuven
Disability and re-integration in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Our labour market has to face a number of challenges as a result of the ageing of the population and the increased globalization. International and European policy makers call upon the national countries to allow as many people as possible to participate in the labour market. This is usually referred to as the re-integration concept. This raises the question of whether Belgian labour law complies with the re-integration concept, moreover ...
Disability in labour law. Legal research into the reintegration of disabled employees on the labour market. KU Leuven
Participation in Disabled Sports KU Leuven
Preparing and performing a baseline measurement Disabled Sport participation in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region and developing a measuring instrument to systematically monitor the evolution of sports participation of people with disabilities.