Projects
Preventing and Combatting Racism and Xenophobia through Social Orientation of Non-Nationals (RACCOMBAT). University of Antwerp
Queer people in straight systems: The impact of sexual orientation laws on the health of sexual minorities Institute of Tropical Medicine
Globally, sexual minorities (i.e., people whose sexual identities, behaviors, or attractions differ from the heterosexual majority) face considerable health disparities compared to their sexual majority peers, such as higher levels of depression and anxiety, worse physical health, and higher rates of suicide attempts1,2,3 . Individual and interpersonal drivers involved in the creation of these adverse health outcomes ...
Vaccine hesitancy in the (post-) COVID-19 EU: Effects of European identity, party orientation, trust and political polarization. University of Antwerp
Revisiting health and social care in the community for disadvantaged elderly citizens: developing a socio-spatial professional orientation Ghent University
Little attention has been paid to the changing professional role of frontline community-based health and social care professionals throughout the transition towards a spatial rescaling of state responsibilities towards local communities. The research project will tackle 3 interrelated theoretical and empirical knowledge gaps, taking into account how health and social care professionals can shape community care for disadvantaged elderly ...
Citizenship and the past: historical culture in Flemish and Dutch Social Orientation courses for newcomers. Ghent University
In Flanders, and more generally throughout Western Europe, there is a recent tendency towards the culturalization of citizenship (Duyvendak et al., 2016). This is particularly apparent in integration policies, in which there is an increasing focus on values and norms, cultural practices, and history. A turning point in Flanders was the formulation of a civic integration policy in 2003, which resulted in, among other things, a compulsory ...
Validation, refinement and spatial orientation of CD45RA effector-memory CD8 T-cells and PDL1- expressing CXCL10+ macrophages as predictive markers for response to immune checkpoint inhibition in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. KU Leuven
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPI) have dramatically changed the treatment landscape of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, biomarkers enabling the identification of patients likely to benefit from CPI in HCC are still an important unmet need. Understanding which effector cells are essential in facilitating response to CPI in HCC and characterising the optimal pre-treatment immune context for subsequent treatment success would ...
Speech-act orientation and intersubjective alignment: modal and evidential meanings of Spanish conditional and future forms KU Leuven
This project seeks to use corpus evidence to gain a better insight into the relationship between modal and evidential meanings of the Spanish conditional and future markers, and to inquire into their spreading into new territories, semantically and pragmatically, in the Peninsular and Rioplatense varieties. This is to be done through a set of case studies on the development of un(der)described constructions such as EstarÃa necesitando un ...
The role of TETRASPANINS in plant cell division orientation Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
Phase field modelling of grain orientation dependent corrosion Ghent University
Corrosion affects metals’ durability and has economic consequences. To increase metals’ sustainability, thorough knowledge and fundamental understanding of corrosion is crucial. The macroscopic behaviour of a material is often determined by the structure of the material on microscopic level (the microstructure). This microstructure is determined by the processing parameters. Modelling is the mathematical description of a certain phenomenon. ...