Economic Theory Research Group, Leuven KU Leuven
Economic Theory
Economic Theory
The Physical Activity, Sports & Health research group conducts research with societal impact on the health, physical fitness and sports performance of individuals and groups across the lifespan. Two research lines can be identified:
1) Physical Activity for Fitness and Health research line
Research topics within the Physical Activity for Fitness and Health research line are guided by the Behavioural Epidemiology ...
Epidemiology research
Epigenetic epidemiology
DOHaD: Developmental Origin of Health and Disease
POHaD: Paternal Origin of Health and Disease
The Research Group Cultural Studies is one of the six primary research groups that form part of the Research Unit Literary Studies at KU Leuven.
The Health Systems & Health Policy Group aims at making health systems more people-centered, integrated, accountable, equitable and resilient. Through our research, educational and service delivery activities, we aim at improving health policies and systems so that the right to health and Universal Health Coverage is guaranteed to all people.
We contribute to policies, programmes and local health systems that ...
The Work and Organisation research group carries out policy-oriented research on how work is organised and with what effects on opportunities for high quality and sustainable jobs, in particular for vulnerable groups. Key research questions are among others: how are organisations changing? What are key developments in workplaces, jobs, wages and working condtions, health and safety at work and worker participation? What human resources ...
The End-of-Life Care Research Group conducts high-quality scientific research in end-of-life care in Belgium and across Europe. Researchers from different scientific backgrounds work in a common research structure to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative research. The group is spearheaded by a number of experienced researchers and strives to optimize the training and support of junior researchers in order to expand future expertise in ...
In the past the research of the research group Finance mainly focused on research in corporate finance. However, during the last years the group committed to a thorough repositioning by extending its research agenda to investments and financial markets (by hiring K. Smedts and G. Wuyts). Furthermore, with the recent recruitment of Hans Degryse (BOFZAP 2012) the group’s expertise also covers banking and micro financing. Taking advantage of new ...
Research in the Adaptive Systems Group concentrates on biologically inspired algorithms such as evolutionary computation and neural networks together with their applications in adaptive systems, optimisation and artificial life. During the last 10 years a lot of expertise has been developed especially in the field of evolutionary computation and more specific genetic algorithms. A genetic algorithm (GA) mimics the way biological evolution ...
Research is grouped into two research themes within this research group, Global Development and Environmental Policy respectively, which in turn are also split up into priority research lines.
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
HIVA executes a diverse set of research and evaluation activities related to global development and development cooperation. Its research seeks to inform policy and practice and features the following areas of ...