Projects
Improvement of animal welfare in stage points during long distance transport. KU Leuven
Welfare Community Mixed Infrastructures: Reclaiming vacancy, federating capacities and empowering communities towards an ecological welfare Vrije Universiteit Brussel
segregation are interconnected phenomena. In Brussels, these expulsion processes are further accentuated by
the scarce availability of land and speculative projects and processes that benefit external investors while
dispossessing the local communities. Across history, society has always relied on infrastructures of ...
Welfare systems and labour market policies for economic and social resilience in Europe KU Leuven
Four megatrends - technological transformations, globalisation, climate warming and demographic changes - reshape labour markets, redefine opportunities and risks, and pose new challenges for welfare states in the EU. WeLaR aims to fill knowledge gaps about these processes by pursuing two main goals: (i) provide a comprehensive and comparative diagnosis of the effects on megatrends on labour market risks and challenges for welfare states; ...
Economic Evaluations of Welfare Interventions: from Hurdles to Implementation KU Leuven
Social welfare is defined as a broad concept including various systems of social services such as healthcare, social care, employment, housing and societal regeneration. In one way or another, these social services have an impact on an individual’s well-being.
Effective social welfare interventions are aiming at inducing long-term changes on both the individual as well as environmental levels in order to improve an individual’s ...
Different lens, new insights? Benefit receipt data as an alternative means to study the extent, development and effects of public welfare provision in Europe KU Leuven
Since the emergence of modern welfare states, scientists as well as politicians and public opinion makers showed great interest in how welfare states differ across countries, how they change, what drives their variation and change, and what social outcomes they produce. This has contributed to a considerable amount of literature in comparative welfare state research, including the discussion of the so-called ‘dependent variable problem’. ...
Rights-based versus benevolent solidarity in European welfare states: the case of food banks and minimum income protection. University of Antwerp
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 ...
Welfare architecture and solidarity: impact of hybrid organization on citizen's voluntary engagement. KU Leuven
PhD in machine learning and bioacoustics for animal welfare KU Leuven
Emotional states are increasingly emphasised in assessments of animal welfare, but how to assess them remain a central ongoing endeavour in animal welfare science. Vocal indicators of positive emotional states in birds is understudied but with the potential to obtain non-invasive and moment to moment information about the welfare of billions of farmed poultry as well as non-domesticated species in the EU and worldwide. The project aims to ...