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SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Inequality, Migration and Social Relations in Urban Brabant and Flanders, c. 1350-1914 Vrije Universiteit Brussel

History, Archeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

This programme builds upon the expertise of the centre for Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes (HOST) to carry out an integrated research agenda on the ways in which growing economic inequality interacted with migration patterns and social relations in the late medieval, early modern and 19th-century city. Situated in one of the most urbanised, commercialised and industrialized regions of medieval, early modern and ...

EU economic governance and the right to collective bargaining. A legal research of the problematic relationship between European economic policy and fundamental social rights KU Leuven

Frank Hendrickx

Institute for Labour Law

This research studies the relationship of EU economic governance with the right to collective bargaining. In addition to legislation, the European Union also uses a hybrid policy method called 'economic governance' to make annual (country specific) recommendations to the member states, the follow-up of which is monitored by the institutions through various mechanisms in the European Semester. ...

It takes a village to raise a genius. The role of social classroom relationships in the development of (dis)engagement and achievement among cognitively gifted and non-gifted students KU Leuven

Karine Verschueren

School Psychology and Development in Context

Talent is a short-time longitudinal study in which students will be followed for two consecutive years (four waves), starting at the very beginning of secondary education. A sample of 3000 students from approximately 20 schools and their parents will be recruited. The transition to secondary education is associated with a general increase in the required level of hard work and effort (Reis & Renzulli, 2011; in Snyder & ...

Preparation and support for the implementation of BelRAI in the Flemish Social Protection and analysis of the relationship of BelRAI with related projects in Care and Health KU Leuven

Aniana Declercq

LUCAS - Centre for Care Research and Consultancy, Academic Center for General Practice

The Flemish government is working on a unique scale for measuring the need for care: the BelRAI screener. The aim of the system is to make it easier for citizens to enjoy their right to an allowance or care. The BelRAI is a kind of questionnaire to find out what someone can and cannot do anymore and how much care someone needs. A pilot project must test whether all conditions have been met to introduce this instrument in health insurance, ...

Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven

Jan De Maeyer

KADOC Research, KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society, Centre for Political Research

This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system that had ...

PhD scholarship in quantitative longitudinal analysis of social protection - Social protection as an investment in capabilities and human rights KU Leuven

Wim Van Lancker

Centre for Sociological Research

This PhD project is embedded in the Re-InVEST.be project (2020-2024). The research will focus on the link between social protection, housing and health. Key research questions in all three areas will relate to accessibility and adequacy of rights, as well as the (mutually reinforcing) effects of social (dis)investment on the ‘beings and doings’ of households and individuals. The research will also include an evaluation of existing policy ...

Cross-sector social partnerships: a pathway to co-create sustainable social and economic value to the benefit of the partnership and the contributing partners. KU Leuven

Frédéric Dufays

Department of Work and Organisation Studies, Leuven

Social issues and challenges are increasing while resources of government and the scale of non-profit organisations, traditionally addressing these issues, are insufficient to provide the solution. In the same time, we have reached a point where successful businesses realize they have a social responsibility next to the primary economic one, proof of which lies in recent developments in corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature and ...

Food bloggers as social influencers: The impact of perceived similarity and social norms KU Leuven

Tim Smits

Institute for Media Studies

The rise of the internet and social media, and a greater concern in healthy food and lifestyles have led to an increase in demand for nutritional information. Especially young adults with interests in food styles seem to rely to a great extent on food blogs and related social media. These sources seem to provide information in a very accessible and attractive manner, and are able to establish (para)social relationships with their audiences. They ...

Negotiating Group Identities in a Multicultural Society. Case: The Role of Mainstream Media, Discourse Relations and Political Alliances in Germany KU Leuven

Leen d'Haenens

Institute for Media Studies, Leuven School for Mass Communication Research

This research on media portrayals of (ethnic/religious) minorities encompasses the fields of media sociology, media effects, political communication, multiculturalism, populism in the media and politicized uses of collective identities. It compares the political discourse (Bundestag plenary protocols) with the mainstream discourse (mainstream press) in Germany over the sample period of 2009-2015, and scrutinizes a ...

How those around us shape us: Influences of parent and peer relations on the development of psychopathology KU Leuven

Inez Germeys

Contextual Psychiatry

This project aims to investigate what the underlying social mechanisms are that can explain the association between maladaptive types of parent and peer relations, and different types of psychopathology. These social mechanisms are assessed in daily life, using the Experience Sampling Method.

General hypotheses:

- Maladaptive parent-child relationships (measured within theories of parental bonding and attachment) are associated ...

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