Projects
Advising in research project 'Sustainable Careers'. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Filip Boen: Physical activity as a social cure KU Leuven
In July 2017, I organized the First International Conference on Social Identity and Sport (ICSIS1) in Leuven together with Prof. Katrien Fransen and Prof. Alex Haslam (University of Queensland, Australia). During ICSIS1, we brought together more than 60 researchers from different continents for the first time, looking at sports and physical activity from the increasingly influential social identity approach. In the meantime, several follow-up ...
Work-to-work transitions. Mobility from an institutional perspective: bottlenecks, barriers and opportunities of career instruments Antwerp Management School
Career inertia among employees and students. A test and extension of the Theory of Career Inaction. KU Leuven
Many countries’ labour market is characterized by prolonged educational paths and low job mobility, while at the same time, many people are not very satisfied with their career. These trends have been associated with high individual (e.g., more burnout), organizational (e.g., lower productivity) and societal costs (e.g., enhanced educational costs). This project aims to understand these phenomena by examining (1) the role of non-rational ...
Coping with barriers for late-career labour mobility in view of qualitative transitions. Comparative study and identification of success factors in policy models and institutional practices. KU Leuven
Toward a digitally enabled labour force in Public Administration Vlerick Business School
Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin. KU Leuven
In her influential article on “Cultural Entrepreneurialism: On the changing Relationship between the Arts, Culture and Employment” (2003), Andrea Ellmeier observes that in the post-Fordist work regime, artists, along with all creative workers, have become entrepreneurial individuals who work anywhere and anytime in exchange for low wages or immaterial income. In that context, Isabell Lorey introduces the idea that precarization can be defined ...
Sabbatical Anneleen Forrier: Career Sacrifice and career transitions: Exploration and valorisation KU Leuven
My scientific activity during this Sabbath will be directed toward three goals. As a first goal, I want to develop a new line of research on career sacrifice in collaboration with Professor Jelena Zikic, York University, Toronto, Canada. A first step towards this collaboration was a paper that we presented at the EGOS annual conference in July 2022 in Vienna. The future collaboration is twofold. Firstly, we want to focus on the further ...