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Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City University of Antwerp

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The research of OASeS is structured around three research tracks. The first research track 'poverty, social inequality and social exclusion' continues a long tradition of scientific and policy-oriented research on poverty and other forms of social exclusion in OASeS. This research track deals with the following themes: poverty policy and anti-poverty strategies; the relation between poverty, welfare state and migration; culture and poverty; ...

Citizenship, Equality & Diversity (CED) University of Antwerp

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The research group focuses on issues of inequality and equality in relation to the diversity characterising our contemporary society, mainly within a political science frame, but also connecting to social and human science more broadly. Our research is driven by a concern for detecting, analysing and understanding mechanisms and causes of inequality and by the question of how to define and promote the equality of social groups in our ...

Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy University of Antwerp

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RESEARCH FOCUS CSP research is concerned primarily with social inequality and (re)distribution in the welfare state, with main focus on the functioning and the effectiveness of social policy. Areas of special interest include i) social policy responses to the (changing) socioeconomic and demographic context, and ii) the impact of social policy on the socioeconomic circumstances of its various target groups.RESEARCH LINESThe CSP pursues three ...

Innovation, Diversity and Educational Approaches Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The alliance research group has been interdisciplinary with education researchers from both the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. The research focus of the alliance research group is therefore also interdisciplinary and bundles expertise from the scientific (sub) disciplines 'educational sciences' and 'educational sociology'. From an educational perspective, research on education innovation and implementation is the main ...

Centre for Research on Peace and Development KU Leuven

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The Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leuven University (KU Leuven). CRPD’s multidisciplinary team conducts conceptual, empirical and applied research with the aim of improving our understanding of the causes of violent conflicts and the challenges of sustainable peace building.

CRPD brings together researchers from within the Faculty of Social ...

EQUALITY//Research­Collective University College Ghent

In the EQUALITY/ResearchCollective, human rights and quality of life are the two central frameworks used in the search for responding to the societal challenge of tackling social inequality and structural processes of social exclusion. The mission of the EQUALITY/ResearchCollective is to expose and challenge social inequalities and injustice. This research collective aims to build expertise and knowledge on how quality of life and human ...

History Vrije Universiteit Brussel

"The History department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has a long tradition in historical research, involving a wide range of themes, periods and approaches. The research is organised at Research Centres, while individual staff members devote much attention to both teaching and researching, and often conduct research projects dealing with specific themes. Research results are both published in Dutch and in more international languages, in ...

Organisation, policy and social inequalities in health care Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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to do multidisiciplinary fundamental and applied (evaluation) research in following domains international comparative health systems research comparative health services research (organisational models and interorganisational networking) the use of technologies in health care socio-economic inequalities in health patient participation knowlegde transfer methodologies between reserach and policymakers focus on innovations in health systems and ...

Politics & Public Governance University of Antwerp

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The first research axis is labelled 'Diversity and equality in politics & public governance'. It studies how different needs and interests are mobilised, recognized and represented in political and administrative decision-making, how groups organize to compete for influence, and how politics and governance (re-)produce equality and inequality. Focus is on how societal, political and administrative institutions and practices bring about ...