Projects
Mobility as a driver for human development: A critical analysis of Peruvian low-skilled labour mobility in Rio de Janeiro in the context of global sports events. KU Leuven
This research project analyses the drivers, dynamics and human development outcomes of recent Peruvian low-skilled labour mobility in Rio de Janeiro in the context of the global sports events in Brazil; the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It examines within a broader framework of local, national and regional migration and development processes and policies in general and the world sporting events in particular, ...
The impact of mass violence and post-conflict recovery on social mobility. Exploring the nature and underlying drivers of social transformation in Rwanda and Burundi. Fieldwork in Burundi. University of Antwerp
The impact of mass violence and post-conflict recovery on social mobility. Exploring the nature and underlying drivers of social transformation in Rwanda and Burundi. University of Antwerp
Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement: embedding refugee mobility into the broader migration (hi)story of Central-East Africa Ghent University
This research project will examine to which extent conflict dynamics and refugee policy structures (including camp-like settings, refugee rights, refugee policies) have an impact on broader mobility patterns and dynamics in the war-torn Central-East African region. The aim is to understand mobility as an essential part of social life-making processes and to explore the political, regional and historical dimensions of these wartime mobilities. ...
Intergenerational social mobility and welfare state regimes from a gendered perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The role of sample characteristics in the stability of value-added estimates of school effects: sample size, student mobility and sample heterogeneity. KU Leuven
Many countries use value added (VA)-estimates as indicators of the effectiveness of their schools. A major issue is the instability of schools' VA-estimates over successive years. Instable VA-estimates may indicate a lack of reliability and are therefore less usable for intended purposes, e.g., identification of (in)effective schools or school choice. A challenge is to provide evidence of the characteristics that drive the artificial ...
‘Successful’ Women of the Transnational Field: Gender and Social Mobility among Sierra Leonean Women in Europe KU Leuven
The research project aims at analysing gendered strategies and performances of social mobility in contexts of migration, based on the practices of Sierra Leonean women who live in Europe and who are part of wider transnational networks. The main hypothesis is that gender impacts the type of strategies that women deploy in order to access social mobility in migratory contexts, as well as the way they insert and position themselves within ...
Analyzing the regulation of synaptic vesicle mobility by pre-synaptic liquid phase-separation in health and disease KU Leuven
Tauopathies are characterised by accumulation of Tau protein in the neurons which causes synaptic dysfunction and synapse loss, and consequently neuronal death. Recent studies show synaptic loss occurs earlier than neuronal death in the progression of the neurodegenerative disorders and its contribution to the pathophysiology of the disease will be important to investigate. Previously the Verstreken lab showed that pathogenic Tau protein ...