Projects
Research in the field of film studies. University of Antwerp
Scientific Chair Vandenbunder Baillet Latour Fund for Film Studies and Visual Culture. University of Antwerp
Scientific Chair Vandenbunder Baillet Latour Fund for Film Studies and Visual Culture. University of Antwerp
Scientific Chair Vandenbunder InBev-Baillet Latour Fund for Film Studies and Visual Culture. University of Antwerp
Citizenship, cultural consumption and the art of still life in Ecuador: an approach based on film and tourism studies KU Leuven
This study examines the relationship between citizenship, cultural consumption and tourism in Ecuador. It centres on the genre of the "still life", and the way it is present in contemporary cinema from Ecuador (fiction and documentary). Main promoter is Prof. dr. Walter Geovanny Narváez Narváez, of the University of Cuenca. The project is mainly financed by the Research Foundation of the University of Cuenca. Supplementary ...
BOF-TT-professorship in film and television studies Ghent University
André Vandenbunder and film studies: towards a valorisation of the academic archive of a pioneer of film theory and semiotics in Flanders. University of Antwerp
Studies on the correlation between microstructure and biodegradability of polysaccharide/ethylcellulose films for colon-specific drug delivery. KU Leuven
As a PhD researcher, my current research programme is “Studies on the correlation between microstructure and biodegradability of polysaccharide/ethylcellulose films for colon-specific drug delivery”. Colon-specific drug delivery via oral administration is necessary for topical treatment. Polysaccharides such as chitosan, sodium alginate, hyaluronic acid, pectin, inulin have been widely used as the promising materials which ...
Economic policy and firm growth - Micro-econometric studies at the firm level KU Leuven
In the last decades, both policy makers in industrialized countries and academic scholars have broadly acknowledged the importance of small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) as backbone of the economic system in addition to the dominating large firms leading world markets. Particularly small, young high-tech companies have been identified as major source for future growth opportunities and welfare. However, these companies are also known to ...