Projects
Visiting Polish researcher prof. Marek Pruszynski (22 - 28 september 2019) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Who cares? Mapping the public-private divide in home-making as contested space for intimacy and sexuality at old age Vrije Universiteit Brussel
restricting sexual practices to private spaces. As people grow older,
however, the home space increasingly becomes less private,
especially when caregivers may enter the home at any moment of
the day (and even night). As a result, older people do not have much
space outside of moral supervision, while ageist ideas view elderly
stereotypically ...
‘Sexting and adolescents!?’ Who dares to address this controversial topic? Empowering parents using a sex-positive intergenerational co-learning approach KU Leuven
Parents, researchers, social media ... everyone has an opinion about ‘sexting and adolescents’, but do they talk about this topic with the youth themselves? Even though communication between parents and their children has an important, preventive role in sex education, these conversations seem rare. The moral panic around sexting results in more negative messages during conversations and in a more controlling, complementary conversation ...
What makes the clock tick? Concept characteristics and the speed of lexical change KU Leuven
Why are different words replaced by new synonyms at different rates? Sometimes, new variants frequently pop up (e.g. ‘awesome’ or ‘lit’ to refer to something cool), while in other cases, a single word has been used for centuries (e.g. ‘ear’). According to contemporary approaches, word-related features, like frequency, word class, length, or age of acquisition, influence the speed of lexical change (Bochkarev et al. 2014; Monaghan 2014; Pagel ...
From Low Fares to No Fares: An Analysis of Economic, Operational, Socio-Spatial and Political Dynamics of Fare-Free Public Transport Vrije Universiteit Brussel
public transport (PT) systems, otherwise known as fare-free public
transport (FFPT). Although FFPT has become an established
practice, discussed and implemented by policy-makers across
Europe, it remains largely controversial and under-researched. The
main objective of the project is therefore to understand both
transport-related ...
From Low Fares to No Fares: An Analysis of Economic, Operational, Socio-Spatial and Political Dynamics of Fare-Free Public Transport Vrije Universiteit Brussel
#MenToo. Explaining the prevalence, consequences and risk of sexual violence victimization in adult males Ghent University
There is an overall shortage of research on male sexual victimization. Existing stereotypes in society (i.e. men should be strong and sexually dominant)make it difficult for men to accept this happened to them. This project aims to produce new insights in male sexual violence by clarifying the mediated effect of gender roles on its prevalence and consequences.
Honour Besieged? Marks of Nobility and the (Re)making of Social Order in the Habsburg Netherlands (1570-1650). University of Antwerp
Influence of sex steroids on bone mineralization and maturation, (pre)pubertal growth and body composition in late childhood and adolescence in males. Ghent University
Besides the influence of the individual sex steroid levels we want to investigate the influence of the estrogen/androgen ratio in determining the tempo of bone mineralization and maturation, growth spurt and body composition. We therefore will investigate those parameters during (pre)puberty, in males presenting conditions with suppressed aromatization (ideopatic osteoprosis) as well as in males with increased aromatization (obesity).