Projects
Co-creating complementary forms of welfare support across faith-based organisations and secular welfare state institutions (SOLIGION). University of Antwerp
Co-creating complementary forms of welfare support across faith-based organisations and secular welfare state institutions (SOLIGION). University of Antwerp
SOLIGION: Co-creating complementary forms of social support across faith-based organisations and secular welfare state institutions KU Leuven
Our project sets out to produce better forms of collaboration and more complementary forms of solidarity between faith-based (including humanistic) organisations (FBOs) and secular welfare state institutions (WSIs). It does so by 1° examining the dynamic interaction between FBOs and WSIs in an interdisciplinary way and through a multi-method approach and 2° the co-creation by both FBOs and WSIs of new practices of solidarity and social ...
How are social divides produced in contemporary European labour markets? A macro-micro-macro study of the impact of labour market policy, employment and welfare institutions on workers working conditions and job quality KU Leuven
This is the first study investigating the interaction of macro- and micro-forces producing social divides in contemporary European labour markets by using a macro-micro-macro research model. Social divides are defined as differences in working conditions and job quality of different groups of workers. The research project consists of several steps. Firstly, by using latent class analysis social divides are uncovered. Secondly, country-level ...
Changing Welfare States: The Effect of FEAD on the Institutionalization of Food Aid University of Antwerp
The Economics and Politics of Rural Market Institutions in Development: A Micro-perspective. KU Leuven
Theorising deinstitutionalisation of residential care institutions. Ghent University
In the wake of the ratification of the UNCRPD, social work policy and practice reforms in western welfare states have actively promoted ‘deinstitutionalisation’ of care for people with intellectual disabilities: the development of community-based care is perceived as the desirable alternative to large-scale residential care institutions. The urgency of the issue is widely supported, while there is no consensus as to how to address it. The ...
Deservingness perceptions in European welfare states: Comparative analyses of public opinion on the social rights and duties of needy groups. KU Leuven
In welfare states different groups of needy people are treated differently. For some groups social protection is more easily accessible, more generous, longer lasting, and/or less subjected to reciprocal obligations than for other groups. Generally, such differential treatment is assumed to be influenced by economic (e.g. less protection for less productive groups), political (e.g. better protection for groups with stronger lobbies) and ...