Projects
The importance of social and residential mobility in segregation: a study about the connection between social and demographical processess and their effect on the spatial segregation in urban areas in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Towards a child-driven understanding of citizenship: children as co-researchers in search of their place in society. Ghent University
Over the past decades, the question of children’s status as democratic citizens has become a subject of debate and a topic of research in (inter)national practice, policy and academia. Within the existing body of literature, research on citizenship is merely confined to educational settings, focusing on children’s political socialisation in function of their adult-future. As such, the debate on children’s citizenship remains to a large extent ...
Recovery capital among substance users with a migration background: An analysis of user perspectives (REC-MIB) Ghent University
Recovery theory is well established in research, policy, and treatment practice in the UK, US and
Australia and has begun to emerge recently in the Belgian research context, as well as in policy since
2015. However, recovery (and particularly social) capital among substance users with a migration
background remains understudied in national as well as international literature. The aim of this
research ...
The Causal Effect of School Resources on Efficiency and Effectiveness. An Intertemporal Analysis in case of Imperfect Compliance KU Leuven
Despite the significant spending on education, school systems operate in a context of scares resources, which urges policy interventions to be efficient. In the efficiency literature, schools are evaluated for their ability of transforming inputs (e.g., teaching hours) into outputs (e.g., school certificates). The overall objective of this research is to investigate the effect of increasing and reducing school resources on the efficiency and ...
Diverging pathways: a longitudinal study of the role of the school in differentially shaping the learning trajectories of native and Turkish adolescents in Flanders. KU Leuven
Childcare Needs of Newcomer Migrants and Refugees Vrije Universiteit Brussel
to young children, their parents, and society at large. Providing
quality and accessibility for all children forms an essential pillar in
ECEC. However, children of migrant families fail to enjoy equal
access and quality in childcare, as can be observed by various
studies and in the statistics provided by the Kind en Gezin.
Therefore, ...
Research stay in HEP Vaud in the field of evaluation engineering. Hasselt University
Weight Loss Intervention in Overweight/Obese People Suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain: an International Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial (WEAVE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
disability. The most severe and debilitated CLBP patients often have
comorbidities such as overweight and obesity. Despite the growing
body of scientific literature pointing towards the close interaction
between overweight/obesity and CLBP, few treatment programs for
people with ...