Projects
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
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Disaster governance
Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability
A social-ecological systems approach to disaster governance
In many places in the world, people are increasingly exposed to disasters. A few recent disasters illustrate the global magnitude of the problem: the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the earthquake, tsunami and ...
Needs and reïntegration of people after detention (BruG onderzoek) University of Antwerp
Cities and Newcomers: Regulating Neighbourhoods of Arrival in Periods of Urban Transition, 1880-1914 and 1980-2015 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Educational Effectiveness in Developing Countries. The Case of Peru KU Leuven
Lady Justice’s Thresholds: Access to and Inequality in Early Modern Law Courts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
IMAGica: an Integrative personalised Medical Approach for Genetic diseases, Inherited Cardiac Arrhythmias as a model Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Settling with Waters. A Landscape Urbanism Investigation in the Sabana de Bogotá KU Leuven
In Bogotá, as in other Latin-American cities, housing demand is increasing daily, while the overall housing shortage remains an unresolved problem. Hence, flood prone areas along the Bogotá river are more and more under urbanization pressure, amongst others by low-cost housing projects, while these areas simultaneously are required in view of flooding, which promise to increase with the predictions of climate change. The dissertation ...
Impact evaluation of the development education program of G3W-M3M, SOLIDAGRO, and KIYO: 'mobilizing young people around the right to health, food and children's rights' KU Leuven
This project concerns the implementation of an impact assessment of the ‘Youth Engagement’ component within the development education program of the Consortium G3W-M3M, Solidagro, and KIYO. This impact assessment includes three measurement points: baseline, mid-term review and final measurement. Besides assessing the project’s impact the evaluation also seeks to carry out an in-depth analysis of the programme’s contribution towards this ...
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven
This project scrutinizes the relation between the way narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee 1999). This is also thanks to positioning ...