Projects
Death to the 'failed state', long live hybrid governance? Hybrid governance and international donors in the primary education sector of Somaliland. University of Antwerp
The impact of COVID-19 on education outcomes KU Leuven
In the field of economics of education, to understand what the results of the COVID crisis are on education in a broad sense.
Training tools for explaining and reducing ethnic discrimination in the fields of education, health care, housing and labour Ghent University
EdisTools aims to get a better understanding of ethnic inequality and ethnic discrimination in the social domains of health, housing, education and work, so that (often well-intentioned or unconscious) processes that give rise to it can be addressed. EdisTools wants to develop both innovative, scientific knowledge and user-friendly training tools that service providers and organizations in these domains can use.
Part of the Study on Conducting Innovative Debt Swaps for Education. University of Antwerp
The value of job amenities and its impact on inequality and returns to education KU Leuven
The overarching goal of this project is to identify how workers value jobs, which is essential to evaluate the current state of the labour market in terms of efficiency, inequality and returns to education. We start by evaluating the accuracy-cost tradeoff of three existing methods eliciting the willingness to pay for job characteristics in general and for job security in particular. Then we use the most cost-effective approach to determine ...
Fostering the development of planetary health research and education in Africa towards climate-resilient primary health care Ghent University
Climate change is described as the most important public health challenge of the 21st century. The impact of climate change on primary health care and the adaptations needed to be climate-resilient have not received much attention in the African region. For the primary care provider, this will manifest as changes in conditions such as heat stroke, gastroenteritis, malnutrition, asthma, malaria, schistosomiasis, trauma, depression and ...
Fostering learner-centered education in the field of taxation. University of Antwerp
An artificial neural network analysis of academic performance in higher education KU Leuven
The understanding of the influential factors of academic performance in higher education contributes to improving its quality. Educational researchers have usually relied on the use of traditional statistical techniques to reach that understanding, possibly ignoring the complex relationship between academic performance and its predictors. The emerging field of educational data mining (EDM) has shown that artificial neural networks are a ...
Creative anxiety. A conceptual history of creativity in education KU Leuven
Over the last few decades, creativity has become a central preoccupation in society. Its conceptualization as a universal force for harmony and economic prosperity is accompanied by the fear that it is insufficiently promoted, declining or even at risk of disappearing. The marriage between creativity and education, in particular, is portrayed as an unhappy one. This PhD argues that the anxiety surrounding creativity forms a constitutive ...