Projects
The EU’s approach to tackling illegal logging in third countries: A comprehensive and political science analysis of the Voluntary Partnership Agreements Ghent University
The EU’s Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) with timber-producing countries ensure EU market access for verified legal timber products in return for forest governance reforms. This PhD will for the first time systematically (a) map and (b) explain the considerable amount of variation between the 15 VPAs, as well as (c) assess their impact in timber-producing countries through six work packages.
The European Union and the information gap: a political science analysis of the decisionmaking process and the autonomy of the Directorate-General Communication Ghent University
This study examines decionmaking processes of the Directorate-General Communication of the European Commission from a Principal Agent perspective. The analysis focuses on the level of autonomy this DG has in its policy- and decisionmaking and in what way the powerrelations between this DG and other actors, such as the European Parliament and the memberstates, influence this autonomy.
Research in the field of political science more specially in the areas of multilevel governance, Europeanization and interest representation. University of Antwerp
Transgender and political science in Europe: a comparative approach. University of Antwerp
International research in political sciences. University of Antwerp
Alpha Stimulation Policy: Sabbatical Fund for Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Ghent University
Faculty fund in support of research sabbaticals. A sabbatical leave has the objective to free a professor from any teaching and/or administrative duties in order to devote oneself exclusively to their scientific research. Each professor uses this time according to one’s own objectives.
Learning Network on Decolonization – Faculty of Political and Social Sciences Ghent University
The Learning Network on Decolonisation of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences aims to initiate activities to decolonize education, research and services to students and staff. The network brings together students and staff from the different departments and programs at PSW, to colearn and co-create knowledge and practices to help reform both the curricula and teaching and research practices, as well as student and staff policies at ...
Facultair Mobiliteits- en Sabbaticalfonds faculteit political and social sciences Ghent University
Each faculty has a specific Faculty Mobility and Sabbatical Fund managed by the Faculty Committee for Scientific Research (CWO) to enable research mobility. The faculties have each drawn up faculty regulations in which the funding possibilities of the Faculty Mobility and Sabbatical Fund are detailed.
From Sociobiology to Urban Metabolism. The Interaction of Urbanism, Science and Politics in Brussels (1900-1978) KU Leuven
Today, urbanism and urban design are engaging in a productive alliance with the natural sciences, leading to the international rise of ecological forms of urbanism. In the Brussels region, socio-ecological approaches are rethinking the urban landscape, and the turn towards landscape design as well as metabolic schemes and circular economy goals show that the region has become a telling manifestation of these evolutions. Still, the ...