Projects
Improving Kernel Change Point detection by pooling information across subjects and variables KU Leuven
Individuals can be conceived as complex dynamic systems, whose thoughts, feelings and behavior fluctuate across time. These fluctuations are governed by system features such as emotional differentiation, emotional variability and emotional inertia. Cross-sectional and prospective studies have shown evidence that these system features are related to psychopathology. These results raise the question whether mental health problems are preceded ...
Optimization of the animal welfare of small ruminants used in humane interventions in therapy, education and recreation HOGENT
Critical reflection in the social and behavioural sciences : a rhetorical approach. Ghent University
There is an increasing recognition of the importance of critical reflection within the social and behavioural sciences because of the complex and heterogeneous nature of these disciplines. This research project aims to introduce new rhetoric- and specifically key concepts from the work of Kenneth Burke- as a theoretical and methodological framework for research about educating reflective scientist practitioners
A second act in life. Desistance from sex offending: managing identities and coping with public shame. Ghent University
Since the end 1990’s, interest in the study of the end of a criminal career, desistance, has been increasingly reflected in criminology. The processes that may change the development of crime over the life course are mostly divided in three components: individual, social and subjective components. However, a better understanding of the relationship between these three components is still identified as a research priority. An increasing ...
Meaning Making in Old Age: A longitudinal approach KU Leuven
The proposed research program will investigate how older persons establish meaning when confronted with stressful events inherent to late life and how specific religious, spiritual, and secular factors influence this process. The program will clarify (a) whether religious, spiritual or secular meaning systems influence meaning making processes in old age, (b) how these dynamic processes develop over time, (c) how specific aspects of the ...
Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Research into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies Ghent University
This study focuses on the blurring of the linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of theoretical developments in both transcultural trauma psychology and theatre studies. This interdisciplinary study develops an empirical inquiry into post-narrative modes of a postdramatic aesthetic in applied theatre, aiming to further the understanding of trauma recovery shaped by coping strategies beyond narration.