Projects
Keeping women out of politics? The (in)direct impact of violence against women in politics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
problem. Since female politicians are not only targeted based on their political role, but because of
their gender as well, scholars argue to study VAWIP as a distinctive issue. Most research looking into
the problem, focusses on countries in conflict settings with low levels of female politicians. In these
environments, ...
Reimagining Public Values in Algorithmic Futures (REIMAGINE ADM) KU Leuven
Recent scholarly work argues that digital developments around automated decision-making (ADM) and algorithmic systems have led to negative social impacts that are undermining democratic processes and strengthening inequalities. While this work explores harms and problems arising from ADM systems, our project offers a complementary and corrective perspective with a focus on the role of public values within these systems. The novelty of our ...
FWO sabbatical 2022-2023 (Prof. T. Soens). University of Antwerp
PAVE Producing an Arthritis Value-Framework with Economic Evidence – Paving the Way for Rare Childhood Diseases KU Leuven
Arthritis in children and youth is a group of rare and ultra-rare diseases. Children of all ages suffer from joint pain, stiffness and swelling slowly destroying they joints and resulting in life-long disability. Pain, decreased mobility and severe fatigue dramatically impact the child’s everyday quality of life and the life of the entire family. The burden of arthritis is far larger than medication costs. Children suffer – miss school days, ...
Contesting fiscal fairness. Explaining fiscal reform in the 18th-century Austrian Netherlands (1749-1794). Vrije Universiteit Brussel
19th and 20th centuries have argued that winning over the trust of taxpayers was instrumental in the establishment of modern, prosperous states. For this trust to be ...
Socio-economic rights differentiation between citizens and immigrants KU Leuven
This research tackles rights differentiation as a way to attenuate the pressure put by large scale labor migration on the welfare state and the prospects of native workers. It examines and evaluates mid-way possibilities between closed borders and renouncing the welfare state, by drawing on and balancing new normative demands of our contemporary reality: a) novel interests of temporary migrants and b) a fair distribution of burdens among host ...
Too wrapped up? On the effects of red tape on collaborative innovation. University of Antwerp
Valorizing Integrated and Action-Oriented Education for Sustainable Development at School KU Leuven
Learning outcomes of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) usually reflect a change in learners' knowledge about sustainability issues, but rarely translate into increased attitudes or competences to address sustainable development effectively as well. Although there is a growing consensus about what ESD's learning outcomes should be, there is no consensus yet on how to measure them. There is also a lacune when it comes to empirics ...