Organisations
The Politics of Democratic Governance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The politics of democratic governance is a ULB-VUB Joint Research Group
LECTIO - Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance KU Leuven
The Leuven Centre for the Study of the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance conducts research in the domain of intellectual history, with a focus on authority. Its researchers concentrate more specifically on the following research programme.
It has become fashionable to understand the rupture of the 16th century as a transition from the authority of texts and authors (auctoritates), ...
Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
DESIRE performs critical research into the political-democratic nature of societal processes and their discursive-significatory dimensions.
Crucial within DESIRE's remit is the study of the logics of power, how power strategies are developed and resisted and how signification intervenes into these power logics. DESIRE's areas of interest thus include the many societal fields where meaning is produced and circulated, including the ...
Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions KU Leuven
In agreement with tradition, the scientific research conducted by the Research Unit Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions takes place from within a hermeneutical-theological perspective. This results in a historically founded and systematic-theologically explored reflection on the religious experience and expressions of Christians and Christian communities, both past and present. Special attention is paid to the different ...
Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) University of Antwerp
Centre for Innovation and the Development of Teacher and School KU Leuven
The Center for Educational Innovation and the Development of Teacher and School (COOLS) works around three axes. They examine the (inter) national education policy in relation to social developments. They study processes of educational innovation and professionalisation within the school as an organization. Finally, they focus on the didactics of teacher training.
Research Services of the Faculty Bioscience Engineering Ghent University
Political Representation in Diverse Societies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Political representation is a crucial concept in political science. In essence, representation entails something or someone (the agent) standing for an absent thing or person (the principal). Political representation thus places an intermediary (agent) between citizens (principals) and political decision-making. These agents are called representatives. The fact that every society contains different interests and nodes that want to be ...