Projects
A Belgian representation on the Scientific Advice Working Party (SAWP) of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Ghent University
A Belgian representation on the Scientific Advice Working Party (SAWP) of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Realising Girls’ and Women's Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment KU Leuven
In order to prevent and reverse inequalities and promote girls’ and women’s inclusion, representation and empowerment, it is necessary to better understand the root causes of gendered power hierarchies and gender gaps across political, social, economic and cultural spheres.
RE-WIRING’s overall objective is to contribute to practical, sustainable and structural institutional change in these spheres, through evidence-based ...
Lobbying and litigation for policy change - Assessing compliance and congruence of the EU framework on interest representation KU Leuven
In the EU, litigation has increasingly become an essential part of interest representation and, ever more, the lines characterizing political and legal strategies of interest representation are blurring. The role of lawyers is only one of normative considerations that arise. Legal ethics rules come into play where lobbying ends and legal advice begins. Be that as it may, empirical analysis suggests that the glass wall between lobbying and ...
Breaking it down to build it up: Hierarchical task learning and representation in the anterior cingulate cortex Ghent University
The function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has been well-studied but little understood by cognitive neuroscientists over the last decades. Lesions of the ACC can lead to a wide variety of mental disorders including depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. A novel theory of the computational function of the ACC proposes that it is involved in learning and executing hierarchically structured tasks according to the ...
SEXUAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE MEDIA: PSMs at the interface between media production and normative discourses on LGBT+ representation Ghent University
The representation of sexual and gender difference in popular culture has mostly been addressed in mainstream US media. Hence, the interplay between media production and societal norms on LGBT+ portrayals is argued to be mediated by the interests of private enterprises. To navigate the representational interface, they independently appraise and apply normative convictions about LGBT+ portrayals best suited to their aims. While prominent in ...
The Fourth-Wave Feminist Biopic: Representation, Production and Reception. University of Antwerp
Anatomy-aware Representation Learning: Application to Segment Metastatic Disease from Whole-body MRI Vrije Universiteit Brussel
improvements, the processing of medical images is a fast growing
field of research. Hardware improvements give rise to higher
resolutions, larger fields of views, shorter acquisition times and a
migration from 2D to 3D imaging. In practice, it is becoming more
challenging for radiologists to analyse the large amount of medical
image ...
Biased Books: A Data-driven Analysis of Representation in Illustrated Children's Literature in the Low Countries (1800-1940). University of Antwerp
Celebrating gender and neglecting history: The history of gender representation in Moroccan primary school textbooks for colonial period onwards (1912-2022) KU Leuven
This research focuses on the history of gender representation in Moroccan textbooks and manuals for primary school grades within a broad chronological period (from the colonial era 1912 to date).The present research main objective is to investigate how gender was represented in primary school textbooks at three points in time: the French and Spanish colonial period, the immediate postcolonial era, and the present day, in terms of the visual ...