Projects
HANDLAB: an analysis of the socio-economic profile of people with disabilities and an evaluation of the effectiveness of the allowances for disabled persons. KU Leuven
Sustainability through situation: cheap tricks, contingent hybrids and radical change Hasselt University
Knowledge platform Innovation Care for Eldery regarding Testgarden Care Innovation Centre Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A testing ground is a structured test environment in which organizations can test innovative technologies, products, services and concepts, making use of a ...
Disaster Governance: Analyzing inconvenient realities and chances for resilience and sustainability KU Leuven
English summary
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 ...
The Interacting Subject in Urban Public Space: In Need of Places for Interpersonal Cooperation KU Leuven
This PhD research examines the relations between public space and interpersonal interaction. More in particular it looks at how spatial configurations, or actions afforded by particular spatial set ups, influence interpersonal interaction in a positive way. It sounds logical that interpersonal collaboration can be rewarding, but what encourages people to work together and what role does the spatial configuration play in this cooperative ...
Choreographies of Precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin. KU Leuven
In her influential article on “Cultural Entrepreneurialism: On the changing Relationship between the Arts, Culture and Employment” (2003), Andrea Ellmeier observes that in the post-Fordist work regime, artists, along with all creative workers, have become entrepreneurial individuals who work anywhere and anytime in exchange for low wages or immaterial income. In that context, Isabell Lorey introduces the idea that precarization can be defined ...
Risks, Resources and Inequalities: Increasing Resilience in European Families KU Leuven
The problem that rEUsilience tackles is of lack of adaptive capacities or resilience in some families. The context is of fast-paced changes in labour markets to which families are key responsive mechanisms, cushioning potentially negative impacts and enabling/disabling risk-taking. But some families cannot respond. The project answers 2 research questions: What challenges and difficulties are created or exacerbated for families by labour ...
"Are you making your network work?" Examining SES differences in the transition from education to work. University of Antwerp
Futurefleet Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
What is the desired structure of the Belgian fishing fleet within the ecological constraints imposed to the fisheries industry? Which policy measures can be taken to evolve from the current situation towards this sustainable fleet model in order to guarantee the survival of the Flemish fisheries industry? These are the principal research questions within this PhD study. New in this research is ...