Projects
Deliberative public engagement on heritable human genome editing: South African & Flemish young adults Ghent University
Via the method of ‘virtual deliberative public engagement’ we can gain insight into the public opinion
on highly complex matters such as heritable human genome editing. In a previous study in the South
African (SA) context, participants in culturally mixed groups who engaged critically with policy
questions on this topic based their arguments on shared values enshrined by the South African
Constitution. However, since ...
Redesiging democracy: How deliberative minipublics are (and can be) succesfully integrated in representative democratic systems. Hasselt University
Democratic Innovations and Scale: How Population Size Affects Direct and Deliberative Citizen Participation. University of Antwerp
Toward a general theory of intuitive and deliberative thinking – testing the corrective assumption of dual process theory in moral and cooperative reasoning KU Leuven
Cooperation is crucial to our own survival in evolutionary settings. Yet, some people are more likely to cooperate than others. Why is this the case? Similarly, why do some people decide to behave morally when others do not? Both of these questions have been puzzling scientists and philosophers for thousands of years, and the practical and theoretical implications of their answers are far-reaching. They are implicated in everything from ...
Constitutionalism and Deliberative Democratic Representation: A Normative Theory of Constitutional Debates KU Leuven
Citizens are properly represented only insofar as politicians publicly debate and justify their decisions, especially when reforming the constitution. Otherwise, legislators may either subvert the norms granting them their competences, or lessen entrenched fundamental rights and liberties. Given the legal distinctiveness of constitutions, guarantees that politicians discuss and justify their constitutional decisions must be put in place for ...
The Constitutional Court caught between its role as guardian of consensus democracy and deliberative expectations. University of Antwerp
Benefits of deep learning algorithms for delineation of target volumes in radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer. KU Leuven
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the seventh most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide and is often treated with radio(chemo)therapy. Precise delineation of target volumes (TVs) is necessary for accurate radiotherapy treatment, however delineation is highly experience and perception dependent and therefore prone to human errors. Inadequate TV delineation is proven to be a main cause of local recurrence. A first step ...
Delineation of effector-specific representations in motor cortex and their structural/functional connectivity. KU Leuven
In many daily activities such as tying your shoelaces, driving a car or playing a musical instrument, a high degree of collaboration between the hands and fingers is critically important. Although it is well known that a dynamic network of various brain areas, including the corpus callosum (CC), is involved in the control of such bilateral movements, its exact neural organization remains a relatively unknown territory. Therefore, I will ...
White Activists in South AfricaU+2019s pre- and post-U+201994 Liberation Movements: Theorising the Problem of White Settler Action Ghent University
In recent years, mass protests by South AfricaU+2019s U+2018born freeU+2019 generation have shattered the reconciliatory post-apartheid consensus and re-centred old revolutionary questions concerning the ownership of land and the 'place' of whites in the country. The white activists who have joined the new movements have found themselves, in this context, confronted with a paralysing ethical-political problem: U+201CHow can white settlers ...