Projects
Roads to recovery and social reactions in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Belgium (REC-PATH) Ghent University
Recovery models are well established in policy, commissioning and treatment practice in the UK, but have only begun to emerge in policy discourse in the Netherlands and Belgium. The aim of this project is to map pathways to recovery in populations engaging with different mechanisms of behaviour change for recovery - mutual aid, peer-based support, residential and community treatment, specialist treatment: maintenance and abstinence oriented) ...
Climbing the ladder of participation in prison: applying Participatory Action Research to drug-related harm reduction Ghent University
Illicit drug use in prison is highly prevalent and brings with it health risks for the prison population like HIV, Hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis. Studies show that harm reduction (HR) measures, such as Opioid Substitution Treatment and Needle and Syringe Programs, are effective in reducing harm both in and outside of prisons. However, HR in prison is still not up to par, despite prisoners’ positive attitudes to some HR initiatives. Nor ...
Natural recovery: an alternative and understudied pathway to recovery from substance use problems Ghent University
Alcohol and drug addiction are increasing problems worldwide, for which treatment is considered to be the only solution, if any. However, recent US research has shown that almost half of all persons with a lifetime substance use problem are able to resolve these problems and a large part does so without any professional assistance or self-help support. Although we can learn a lot from such examples of self-change, little is known about ...
Can I see some ID, please? Police discretion in cannabis-related ID checks and stop and searches, and their effect on police legitimacy. An ethnographic study in 2 Belgian police forces. Ghent University
The way police act in their daily police practice against the possession and use of cannabis, the most
commonly used illicit drug, is a controversial story, both in the academic - and in the political world.
The role and function of the police in the fight against cannabis remains very unclear, both with the
police and with the users. Although there is a lot of research into cannabis use and the harms done
by cannabis ...
Project planning with secrecy, monitoring, and interdiction KU Leuven
Both in production and in service sectors, a large number of
organizations subdivide work into projects, and this within a wide
variety of areas, such as R&D, construction, software development,
process re-engineering, and maintenance operations. Project
management (PM) deals with the selection of projects as well as with
their operation, planning, and control. Within the rich literature on
PM, only a handful ...
Leave a light on: towards multiplexed luminometric characterization and detection of new psychoactive substances Ghent University
Over the last decade, new psychoactive substances (NPS) have been flooding the drug market. The high levels of harm associated with NPS use have urged many researchers to investigate their mechanism-of-action. Considering the ethical constraints in performing experiments on NPS in humans, there is much interest in the design of in vitro systems to study the signaling pathways of NPS leading to their effects in the human body. Here, we present ...
Can I see some ID, please? Police discretion in cannabis-related ID checks and stop and searches, and their effect on police legitimacy. An ethnographic study in 2 Belgian police forces. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Transitional care in adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease: multi-level analysis of healthcare system factors, hospital and patient characteristics impacting lanck of cardiac follow-up. KU Leuven
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect in newborns, affecting about 9 per 1,000 babies worldwide. It comprises a wide spectrum of anatomical defects of the heart and/or great intrathoracic vessels that have a variable long-term impact on patients’ health status, functionalities, and overall well-being. While CHD was one of the most common causes of infant mortality around the 1960s, about 90% of children with CHD ...
Sharp tongues. Contentious speech and urban politics in the late medieval Low Countries KU Leuven
This project offers an innovative perspective on medieval insurgency. An in-depth analysis of the 'illicit speech' of commoners will reveal whether the role of urban commoners in sustaining and spreading contentious beliefs was an essential one. Instead of considering protestors as violent rebels whose collective actions were harmful to political progress, as scholarship has often done in the past, this project sees citizens as creative ...