Projects
HIV Illness Identity, Household HIV Competence and Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence, an analysis of associations among a treatment-naïve adult population living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa. University of Antwerp
Examining the Role of Peer Communication in How Commercial Content on Social Media Affects Adolescents’ Identity Formation and Consumer Socialization Ghent University
Adolescents (aged 12 to 18) nowadays spend a lot of time checking their social media accounts, such as Facebook, Instagram or Pinterest. On these accounts, they flaunt the most positive facets of their lives and interact with their friends, acquaintances and even with strangers. These activities on social media are intertwined with commercial activities such as sponsored electronic worth-of-mouth (eWOM). Research on how these commercial ...
“How to understand, access, record and integrate identity in care contexts for persons with high support needs who cannot speak for themselves.” KU Leuven
The hybrid identity of the HIV/AIDS patient: a qualitative study of the impact of antiretroviral treatment on the lives of HIV/AIDS patients in South Africa University of Antwerp
A multidisciplinary and multilevel approach to strategic HR differentiation: the relationship between HR differentiation, social identity and employee performance. KU Leuven
Refugees in identity crisis Ghent University
Imagine a boy from Somalia who cannot prove his minority in order to be entitled to a guardian because he has no birth certificate.
Picture an Afghan couple, claiming for asylum, whose Iranian marriage certificate proves a religious marriage that was concluded in Iran when the girl was 16. Such legal issues – child in Somalia, but questioned in Belgium; married in Iran, but not in Belgium – relate to the recognition of personal status in ...
Algorithmic Methods for Data-Driven Decision Making in Operations Management KU Leuven
This research project focuses on the development of quantitative models and algorithmic methods that support data-driven decision making. As logistics networks and production processes grow in scale and complexity and as comprehensive data becomes available in all business contexts, balancing the trade-off between realistic modeling and computational tractability becomes ever more important. Our goal is to design algorithms that can solve ...
Sabbatical Yves Van Vaerenbergh: Customer Experience Management: Extension from a customer perspective toward candidate, employee, and organizational perspectives KU Leuven
The first objective of the sabbatical is to complete a number of ongoing research projects and turn them into publications, including: - The impact of the customer experience on employer attractiveness (target: Academy of Management Journal, ABS 4*) - A meta-analysis of employee customer service performance (target: Journal of Marketing, ABS 4*) - Impact of customer misconduct on frontline employees: A meta-analysis (target: Journal of the ...
Optimal teat management: targeted coaching towards a better health status Ghent University
Through this demo project, we want to focus on identifying the risk factors and improving the critical points at weaning. The aim is to optimise the weaning period, which is often difficult, with the ultimate goal of improving the performance and health status of the farm. All this without using preventive antibiotics or therapeutic doses of zinc oxide in the feed. To do this, we will use the PDCA principle (Plan, Do, Check, Act) that is ...