Projects
Determinants and effects of social ethnic segregation in primary education Ghent University
This research project aims to get a profound insight into the magnitude, causes and consequences of social ethnic segregation in Flemish primary education. Although this social ethnic segregation is considered a social problem, in Flanders there is hardly any research dealing with it. First this project aims to describe the prevalence of social ethnic segregation in Flanders. Second, it will examine the determinants of this social ethnic ...
Determinants and effects of social ethnic segregation in primary education Ghent University
This research project aims to get a profound insight into the magnitude, causes and consequences of social ethnic segregation in Flemish primary education. Although this social ethnic segregation is considered a social problem, in Flanders there is hardly any research dealing with it. First this project aims to describe the prevalence of social ethnic segregation. And finally it will explore the effects of this social ethnic segregation for ...
Ethnic residential segregation in Belgium: trap or stepping stone for social mobility? Ghent University
Among policymakers and in public opinion, there is a strong belief that ethnic segregation
hampers the integration of ethnic minorities. Academic research about the impact of ethnic
concentration neighborhoods on the socio-economic outcomes of minorities is, however, scarce and mixed. On the one hand, concentration neighborhoods might be seen as places with a bad reputation where minorities live isolated from mainstream society and ...
ResSegr - Residential segregation in five European countries. A comparative study using individualized scalable neighbourhoods Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Determinants and effects of socio-ethnic segregation in primary education. KU Leuven
To answer the first question the population of students of ...
Determinants and effects of socio-ethnic segregation in primary education. KU Leuven
Exploring the first lineage segregation in the human embryo: is GATA3 the gatekeeper of trophectoderm differentiation? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
blastomeres into trophectoderm (TE) and inner cell mass (ICM) in the
blastocyst represents the first lineage segregation. Knowledge
regarding this event in the human embryo is scarce and data from
mouse models cannot be fully extrapolated. Neither the timing of
lineage segregation during preimplantation development nor the
molecular ...
Inequality in volunteering: Investigating access to volunteering and job segregation in volunteering through an organizational field approach Ghent University
This project examines, through an organizational perspective, how access to volunteering and task/job allocation in volunteering are unequally divided, hence reproduce social inequality through volunteering. Through unique, representative survey data on volunteering in Belgium, combined with
a qualitative analysis of organizational fields, it is examined how this differs between different volunteering sectors.
Evaluation of Contemporary Social Housing in Meeting the Demand of the Deprived Households and Filling the Gap of the Housing Market During the Last Decade in Tehran, Iran KU Leuven
This research aims to scrutinize the achievement of contemporary social housing programs in meeting the demand of the low-income households during the previous decade in Tehran, Iran; and to evaluate the impacts of these programs on the social and spatial order in the Tehran metropolitan area.
This research theoretically attends to the long-established debate about the nature of social housing (policy). Does it primarily accommodate ...