Projects
Longitudinal study on the influence of family resources and family patterns of interaction on the development of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities KU Leuven
Due to the complex interplay of their limitations, young children with a significant cognitive and motor developmental delay are highly dependent on their immediate social setting. Parents and professionals are confronted with unique challenges in the children’s upbringing and support, while research on this specific target group is very scarce. Based on the ‘Developmental Systems Approach’ of Guralnick (2011), this PhD project aims to ...
The transfer of the family company to the next generation: a comparative study on the company law, family property law and tax law aspects KU Leuven
Considering the importance of the continuity of family businesses for the European economy, the aim of this project is to perform a comparativelegal study on the intergenerational transfer of unlisted companies with limited liability. The relevant rules of Belgian, Dutch, French and English company law, family property law and tax law will be critically analysed.
First, we examine how company law supports the transfer of family ...
Exploring new roads towards more family quality of life. The relationship between a family-centered approach and family quality of life in families with children with an intellectual disability. KU Leuven
Recent research on families with a child with a disability pays much attention to family quality of life (FQOL) and the family-centered approach (FCA). Although plenty of research has been conducted on their theorizing, conceptualization, and measurement, several questions regarding both concepts remain unanswered. In addition, several questions regarding their realization are still unresolved. Moreover, although they are often conceptually ...
RETHINKIN – Family and family law studies in the Low Countries University of Antwerp
RETHINKIN_ Rethinking Family and Family Law in the Low Countries Hasselt University
FWO travel grant for a short stay abroad in research into emotions in family firm top management teams from 08/04 to 05/05/2019 at the Research Institute for Family Business at WU Wien Hasselt University
Family situations and trajectories of children of divorce. A study on the family configurations and well-being of children in new stepfamilies. KU Leuven
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families KU Leuven
What we mean by “family” has undergone radical changes in the past decades. We can observe an increasing plurality of constellations of living together (partnerships) and raising children (parenthood) that makes it difficult to define what actually makes a family “a family”. The many possible combinations of partnership and parenthood in our pluralistic society require that we conceptualize family as a more fluid concept that goes beyond the ...
The printer's widow: gender, family and editorial choices in early modern Antwerp, Louvain and Douai (long 16th - 17th centuries) KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man’s world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men’s work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...