Projects
Happiness and Agency in Queer Young Adult Literature: An Exploration of Empowering Scenarios in Literary Emotionality University of Antwerp
Goods, Virtue and Happiness in the Early Academy KU Leuven
This project investigates the ethical theories developed in the Early Academy, the phase of the Academy immediately following the death of Plato. The aim is to show that these theories contributed significantly to the dynamics of the debate on goods, virtue and happiness in the 4th century BCE.
In antiquity, there were two major, competing answers to the question of how happiness, goods and virtue are related. The first model, advanced ...
Eavesdropping on emotions: Using vocalisations to unravel links between animal happiness and welfare KU Leuven
The malleability of happiness and success in contemporary media: the content of a malleability narrative and its consequences for adolescents’ mental health KU Leuven
The increased prevalence of mental health issues in adolescents has led to societal concerns and has fueled scholarly attention. The relation between appearance ideals in popular media and a dysfunctional body image has been shown to contribute to this wellbeing problem. The current project argues that the contribution of media is not limited to appearance ideals but also includes ideals regarding academic performance, sexuality, romantic ...
Virtue and Happiness: Moral Philosophy in Late Antique Christian Thought KU Leuven
On the bumpy road of happiness: Mechanisms of daily life reward processing and how it can be changed KU Leuven
Non-specific chronic low back pain (NSCLBP) represents a multi-dimensional problem associated with physiological, psychological and social factors (O'Sullivan, 2012). Physiotherapists involved in the management of NSCLBP are challenged to embed psychological perspective into their clinical practice (Foster et al., 2011. Different psychological models for chronic pain help to explain how behavioural changes occur (McCracken et al., 2014). ...
The Hasselt Appendicitis Immunology and Environmental cohort Study: The HAPPIEST cohort Study Hasselt University
The Transvaluation of Virtue: Plotinus and the Foundation of Ethics KU Leuven
The project will explore the ethics of Plotinus and its relevance to contemporary debates concerning eudaimonist ethics and egoism. Eudaimonist virtue ethics considers eudaimonia (well-being/ happiness) as the goal that determines the ethical life. It will be argued that Plotinus proposes a form of ethical naturalism that can rescue eudaimonist ethics from the charge of egoism.
The project is the result of advances in two scholarly ...
Sabbatical Nadia Lie: Tourist Fiction from Latin America. KU Leuven
This application is part of the FWO project G086819N 'Traveling words and images: A Study of Tourist Fiction and Non-Fiction in the Hispanic World' (2019-2022), which I supervise in collaboration with Dagmar Vandebosch (KULeuven campus Kortrijk) and cultural anthropologist Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp). Within this project I am in charge of the general supervision as well as the implementation of WP3, which amounts to writing an ...