Projects
Horizontal Inequalities and Food Riots in Africa. KU Leuven
In recent years, protest events in a range of African countries have attracted widespread interest and public debate. The sharp increase in world food prices in 2007 and 2008, for example, was associated with the occurrence of a wave of food riots on the continent. In a number of countries, including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia, protests erupted against high costs of living and frequently escalated into ...
Couple's labour force participation around parenthood: can differential labour market trajectories and resources account for doing gender? University of Antwerp
The sublanguage factor: Modeling term variation in clinical records KU Leuven
Background, motivation and aim of the dissertation
The past years have seen a steady increase in the production of health-related data, such as electronic health records, clinical notes and discharge summaries. Besides the primary function of the record – i.e. the monitoring of an individual patient’s progress – the collection of such files opens new opportunities for large-scale analyses, such as cohort identification or ...
Open education platforms and their modes of dis/appearing: A critical account from science and technology studies KU Leuven
This dissertation critically investigates the platformisation of open education practices, emphasising its compositions and consequences for education stakeholders. Open education, broadly defined as a collection of practices aiming to increase and widen access to education and knowledge resources, frequently relies on dedicated universities and digital platforms. As more and more digital platforms organise this sort of practice, their ...
The power dynamics of managing ethnic diversity: A study of the emergence and effects of diversity management practices Hasselt University
Dependable performance on many-thread processors (DPMP) Ghent University
Contemporary microprocessors seek at improving perfomance through thread-level parallelism by co-executing multiple threads on a single microprocessor chip. Many-thread processors, however, lead to non-dependable performance: co-executing threads affect each other's performance in unpredictable ways because of resource sharing across threads. DPMP envisions that performance introspection using a cycle accounting architecture that estimates ...
Leadership and Safety Behavior in Air Traffic Control and Beyond KU Leuven
Safety behavior is critical in air traffic control (ATC) and other high-risk environments due to the far-reaching risks a lack of safety behavior entails in terms of physical harm, social, and economic consequences. The literature shows that one of the main antecedents of safety behavior is leadership. Yet, little research on the relationship between leadership and safety behavior has been conducted in ATC. The first aim of this dissertation ...
Context, intergroup threats and contact as determinants of prejudice toward immigrants KU Leuven
Prejudice toward immigrants remains widespread in Western multi-ethnic societies. So far, the majority of studies investigated prejudice toward immigrants from either the individual level or the contextual level as viewed from one discipline. In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to examine how (perceptions of) the social environment contribute to intergroup threat and contact that subsequently have an ...
Transport and urban development on a regional level (ThUNDER). KU Leuven
This research project starts from the problems associated with mobility, transport and spatial planning. The PhD contains an overview of work inspired by research and consultancy work performed at Transport & Mobility Leuven and the KU Leuven during the last decade. The PhD bundles four papers from a wide variety of research topics.
These four papers are:
1) To raise or not to raise? An impact assessment of Russia’s ...