Organisations
Political Representation in Diverse Societies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Political representation is a crucial concept in political science. In essence, representation entails something or someone (the agent) standing for an absent thing or person (the principal). Political representation thus places an intermediary (agent) between citizens (principals) and political decision-making. These agents are called representatives. The fact that every society contains different interests and nodes that want to be ...
Architecture and Society KU Leuven
The division ‘Architecture and Society’ stands at the crossroads between engineering and the architectural sciences on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other, and uses a broad variety of relevant methodologies from these fields in an interdisciplinary perspective. Its research ranges from theory to practice and experimentation, across all spatial scales from the building element to the territorial, and through time ...
Centre for Research on Peace and Development KU Leuven
The Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD) is a multidisciplinary research centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leuven University (KU Leuven). CRPD’s multidisciplinary team conducts conceptual, empirical and applied research with the aim of improving our understanding of the causes of violent conflicts and the challenges of sustainable peace building.
CRPD brings together researchers from within the Faculty of Social ...
Department of Conflict and Development Studies Ghent University
Body & Material Reinvented AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa KU Leuven
The Institute for Anthropological Research on Africa (IARA) is committed to anthropological research in and on Africa. The latter term is understood in a very broad sense: it refers to Africa as a geographic political, economic, historical, social and an imaginary space, and to Africa's past, present and future. More importantly, it refers to the everyday lives of the different actors on the continent, and in its diasporas.
Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The joint research group THALIA aims at collective, intellectual exchange in regard to intermedial constellations of theatre, text and performance, along the research lines Text/Theatricality, Performativity, Dramaturgy and (Inter)Mediality.
Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning KU Leuven
Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning
Bioeconomics KU Leuven
The Division of Bioeconomics has three main research lines:
- poverty reduction and economic growth in poor countries and the sustainable and efficient use of natural resource to realize pro-poor growth;
- the transition towards a sustainable bio-based economy;
- the link between economic and ecological models by refining functions of socio-economic drivers that are used to model resource use change and changes in ...