Projects

Wildlife is increasingly exposed to urban habitats, and the ability to cope with novel environments varies both between and within species. Here, I will analyse the effects of an urban lifestyle throughout all life stages in a coastal breeding gull and how this influences behaviour, ontogeny and habitat preferences. This project aims to increase our understanding of urban selective pressures.

This thesis explores the everyday agency of migrants in contemporary Berlin, Germany, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Rooted in more than ten years of practice on the topic, the research scrutinises the roles, responsibilities and possible futures of critical urban practitioners in the context of increasingly super-diverse societies and urban settings. The exploration begins in 2005 at the practice’s inception and considers ...

This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long eleventh century’ (roughly 980–1120).

This project aims for an integrated narratological approach of speech acts and the representation of consciousness in experimental texts by the Flemish author Ivo Michiels. The theory of speech acts will be integrated in a cognitive narratological framework for the study of conciousness in fiction. In this way, the effects of experimental texts can be articulated more precisely.