Projects
Discourse of “state-induced return” in international institutional speech: how to kindly give the boot to people on the move Vrije Universiteit Brussel
analysing state-induced return speech, the goal is to study how the lexical series of terms using a
prefix expressing repetition or intensity serves the objectives of European external policies. This
paradigm of terms starting with re- (which includes resettlement, readmission and reintegration) is
more and more used ...
Crafting Circularity – Rethinking Sustainable Design and Construction in Architecture Education (CIRC-ARCH). University of Antwerp
Conversational Human-Aware Technology for Optimisation KU Leuven
Industry and society are increasingly automating processes, which requires solving constrained optimisation problems. This includes vehicle routing problems in transportation, scheduling of tasks in electricity demand-response programs, rostering of personnel and more. However, the solutions found by state-of-the-art constraint programming solvers are often found to not match user expectations. Solutions are regularly critiqued by domain ...
How the third wave of global judicial (and social) activism is filling ecological governance gaps and challenging the liability-remedy paradigm. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Celluloepidemiology: a novel paradigm for modeling T-cell responses on a population level (CELLULO-EPI). University of Antwerp
Malleability in mediated ideals: A paradigm to understand effects of contemporary media in adolescents' well-being (MIMIc). KU Leuven
MIMIc will develop and establish a new theoretical perspective that will fundamentally redirect the current research on idealised representations of life in mass and social media and their effects on (adolescent) audiences. MIMIc combines insights from cultural sociology, media theory, and developmental psychology to define the effects of ‘malleable ideals’ in media. Malleable ideals are idealised representations of different achievements and ...
EU Patient- cEntric clinicAl tRial pLatform KU Leuven
EU-PEARL has the ambition of transforming the current approach of conducting single-compound clinical trials into the use of cross-company Integrated Research Platforms (IRPs), taking into consideration both patients’ interests and the opportunities from novel molecules for addressing medical needs. Patient-centric data and knowledge sharing have the potential to accelerate the development of new treatments and reduce the operational costs of ...
The Interplay between International Environmental Law and Rights of Nature: Somewhere between Obstacle and Facilitator for an Ecocentric Paradigm Shift? Ghent University
Instead of treating nature as an object, Rights of Nature presupposes the express bestowal of rights upon nature. On the surface, this novel legal approach stands at odds with the anthropocentric foundations of the international legal system. Even more recently emerged sustainability principles and environmental treaties reflect a predominantly instrumentalist approach towards nature. This research aims to delve deeper into the ambivalent ...
Sacred Power and Sacrificial Punishment. On Sacrifice as a Politico-Theological Paradigm for the History of Criminal Law KU Leuven
Sacrifice, this interdisciplinary investigation asserts, offers a fascinating hermeneutical paradigm to shed new light on the history of criminal law and political power from about the later Middle Ages until the fall of the ancien régime. By teasing out sacrificial tenets of Western political theology, the sacrificial interpretation of penal history which I propose can be contextually embedded. René Girard, above all others, ...