Projects
Stories of multilingualism: Connecting families and schools through visual narratives KU Leuven
Co-lingual-S tackles a well-documented disconnect between family- and school language policies regarding multilingualism by applying innovative visual methods to understand multilingual family life, and develop multilingual pedagogies in schools. Co-lingual-S sets out to 1) understand how family members’ intersected identities (such as the interplay between gender, language and migration status) shapes family roles and actions in creating ...
Social Inclusion Of Children With Special Needs In Uganda – A Photovoice Study. University of Antwerp
The meaning of leisure time in the lifeworld of children and young people in socially vulnerable situations. Ghent University
Culture, Ageing & Design: Integrating culture and wellbeing in housing design theories for old age (CAD-project) Hasselt University
One for all, all for one? A research into the steps towards violent Islamist extremism: what it takes to make costly sacrifices. Ghent University
This research examines the process towards Violent Islamist Extremism and explores what it takes
to make costly sacrifices. We start from an integrated theoretical framework combining the
Significance Quest Theory (SQT) and the Devoted Actor Theory (DAT). According to both theories,
‘the need for personal significance’ is the dominant motivational force underlying the process
towards Violent Islamist Extremism. This ...
Searching for Home in the Migration Context: Exploring Small and Big Home-Making Experiences through Belgian Taiwanese Immigrants' Life Story Narratives KU Leuven
For this thesis, I chose Taiwanese immigrants in Belgium as my research subject and examined a series of questions regarding the notion of home in the migration context and the immigrant’s daily life while living in a foreign land. The main research questions guiding this study are: What are Taiwanese immigrants’ experiences of homemaking (「家」的製作」) in Belgium? What are their experiences of managing dual home relationships between home and ...
International Joint Research Group - Joint Laboratory on Audio Visual Signal Processing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Objectifying Assessment of Human Emotional Processing and Expression of Clinical and Psychotherapy Applications (EMO-App) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Experience of Lying: designing architecture for a wholesome hospital environment. KU Leuven
Hospital buildings tend to be experienced by patients from a, for architects, atypical perspective, namely lying in a hospital bed. This altered perspective has a significant impact on patients’ spatial experience. Gaining insight into this experience is for most architects not trivial, but crucial if they are to design truly patient-centred hospitals.
This PhD research started from a twofold aim. The first aim was to gain insight into ...