Projects
Cross-cultural comparison of the work experiences of disabled employees in a multinational corporation. Hasselt University
Between-day reliability and concurrent validity of outcome measures for pain in persons with multiple sclerosis Hasselt University
Employee turnover, changes in organisation demographics and knowledge retention as predictors of organisation performance. KU Leuven
Motivational counseling as a lever for sustainable re-employment and higher well-being: the development and evaluation of a training protocol in a health insurance context KU Leuven
Over the last years, the number of patients on sick leave has increased which leads to increased expenditures for our social security system. In 2016 the federal expenses linked to absence from work were larger than those for unemployment for the first time in Belgium. Absence from work can be evaluated in different ways. For a long period of time, occupational and health insurance physicians used merely a biomedical approach with a focus on ...
Addressing hurdles people have to overcome in (sustainable) return to work KU Leuven
METEOR project - Enhance scientific knowledge on job retention for healthcare workers in EU countries - Identify and analyse the main predictors of job retention in 4 European countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, and Italy) - Develop evidence-based policy recommendations through continuous stakeholder engagement and interactive co-creation workshops - Present all the results from the above in an easy-accessible and searchable online ...
Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families KU Leuven
The problem that rEUsilience tackles is of lack of adaptive capacities or resilience in some families. The context is of fast-paced changes in labour markets to which families are key responsive mechanisms, cushioning potentially negative impacts and enabling/disabling risk-taking. But some families cannot respond. The project answers 2 research questions: What challenges and difficulties are created or exacerbated for families by labour ...
An empirical investigation into the middle-and higher-income bias in social spending and welfare state redistribution across 20 countries, 1985-2013 KU Leuven
Welfare states that are effective in reducing poverty have high levels of social spending. Yet, changes in social spending cannot explain changes in poverty outcomes. Inequalities increased almost everywhere and so did levels of social spending, but in many countries social spending became less effective in keeping poverty at bay. So, then, why did social spending became less pro-poor in some countries but not in others? The central ...
Start! Adapt! Stop! Tracking the dynamics of action control in Parkinson’s disease. Ghent University
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological disease in which so-called dopaminergic cells in specific parts of the brain are disabled. These cells are responsible for producing dopamine, a substance important for the production of movements. The resulting decrease in dopamine level leads to motoric problems and accordingly PD is characterized primarily by clearly observable symptoms such as tremor, difficulty initiating movement, and slowness ...
From Individual Privacy to Social Conundrum: An Ethical Exploration of the Technological Surveillance in the Organizational Workplace KU Leuven
The ongoing discussions today about electronic monitoring and workplace surveillance in various disciplines, ranging from the fundamental issues of sociology and philosophy to the specialized applied topics like information systems and ethics, show how much attention the issue has drawn. However, there are conflicting rights and interests: employers have legitimate interests in seeking efficiency, profit, and vicarious liability, while ...