Projects
Cultural audiences, arts perception and attitudes Ghent University
The aim of this research is twofold. First, it wants to develop and validate survey instruments to measure aesthetic dispositions and attitudes. Second, it wants to shed a light on the link between these aesthetic dispositions on the one hand and socio-demographic as well as field-specific characteristics such as competence and arts experience on the other.
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...
The Right-to-Die in Belgium. A History of Societal Attitudes, Conceptual Confusion and Advocacy Concerning Euthanasia between the 1880s and 1993. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
euthanasia debates in the Belgian context. Current insights on the history of this topical issue are
limited to anecdotal histories or the personal memories of those involved as end-of-life opinion
makers in the public sphere and proponents towards the political world since the 1980s. The unique
position that Belgium still ...
Caring with matter: towards new artistic forms of togetherness Hasselt University
towards an innovation of teacher education in pakistan Ghent University
This PhD research in the innovation of teacher education in Pakistan. The following research questions are being dealt with: what is the staate of the art as to the adoption of the vaiety ofteaching strategies in teacher education in Pakistan? what are related teacher training cognitions (self efficacy, beliefs and attitudes) of teacher trainers about innovative teachertraining strategies in general and collaborative learning strategies in ...
One size does not fit all: from a common approach towards performance-specific speech intervention and long-term learning in children with a cleft palate Ghent University
Speech therapy in children with a palate deals with two scientific challenges that will be addressed in this project. The first challenge is selecting the best speech approach for a child with a specific cleft speech characteristic (CSC). Many speech therapists use a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to treat compensatory CSCs resulting in poor short- and long-term speech outcomes. To increase the effectiveness and quality of cleft speech care, it ...
Towards effective radiation protection based on improved scientific evidence and social considerations - focus on radon and NORM (RadoNorm). University of Antwerp
Material Dialogues - the iron column in the work of Labrouste, Wagner and Lewerentz KU Leuven
How can materials generate meaning? As most architectural research focuses on the formal and conceptual, it reduces matter to a passive recipient of form. Could this perspective be reversed, given the growing realisation that material resources are finite? And what would a material lens reveal about the roles materials play in the creative process? To this end, the dissertation develops a material lens, drawing on recent theories that ...