Name Activity "School of Educational Studies" "The School for Educational Studiesorganises education, research and services within the core discipline of Education. This is done in close (interdisciplinary) collaboration with UHasselt''s study programs and research groups with regard to the content expertise in the disciplines. This is achieved within the academic context of Hasselt University and identifies her mission, vision and values. The School for Educational Studies thrives to educate students into academic and inspriring education experts, who aims to combine a social developement and creativity to (re)establish education.The School offers its employees, teachers and researchers a context to develop a strong reflective capacity to an excellence level. The School for Educational Studies wants to contribute to social development in the region and beyond through its academic component and through collaboration with local actors. " "Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus" "Toon Van Hal" "French, Italian and comparative linguisticsDir. Piet DesmetResearch (and teaching) in the field of:(1) French and applied linguistics (esp.language didactics)(2) computer-assisted language learningThe CoHistAL group at KULAK  houses the research team ITEC (Interactive technologies), focusing on domain-specific educational technology." "Dynamics in Innovation, Research and Higher Education" "Dynamics in Innovation, Research and Higher Education" "Educational Studies" "Language, Education and Society, Antwerp Campuses" "Elke Van Steendam" "The research group Language, Education & Society is a dynamic group dedicated to the study of language learning in all its facets. The research carried out within our research group aims to unravel the interaction between (1) the learner, (2) the learner’s social and educational situation and (3) language or content via language.The research group has four main research areas:assessmenttask-based language teachingvocabularywriting Other research topics that are covered in our research group are:Implicit and explicit language learningInstructed Second Language AcquisitionLanguage policy, language and equal opportunities, multilingualismLanguage proficiency           " "Individual research O&O" "The topics of the research group E-learning and educational engineering are : - Language pedagogy and teacher training (French, Spanish) - Educational technology and distance learning - Computer assisted language learning (CALL) - Systems design and development - Speech technology and linguistic routines" "UHasselt Research on Innovative and Society-engaged Education" "Katrien STRUYVEN" "Education research at university level with attention for: the development of high quality curriculathe understanding of the learning process of students and the mutual influence of educational and learning contexts (included the problem of the passage high school-university)the development of high quality evaluation tools for both student and teacher performancesProjects in collaboration with the facultiesIntegration of ICT in education, included distance learning and the development of a digital campusInternational fund raisingValorisation of education research" "Department of Physics and Astronomy" "For more information about the research topics of the different research teams belonging to this department see: - Laboratory for Solid State Physics and Magnetism - Semiconductor Physics laboratory - Division for Nuclear and Radiation Physics - Institute for Theoretical Physics - Division for Acoustics and Thermal Physics" "Centre for Innovation and the Development of Teacher and School" "Geert Kelchtermans" "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." "Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences" "Ann Buysse" "The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences has the ambition to be scientifically active at an international level in all disciplines in which it provides academic teaching. Its scientific output is the result of implementing since several years a consistent strategy of open recruitment, incentivizing doctoral and post-doctoral researchers and supporting the research efforts through an adequate research infrastructure."