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Impact of covid crisis on women and proposals for a more gender-equal recovery. (COVID-GENDER) KU Leuven

Karolien Lenaerts
Research Group Work, Organisation and Social Dialogue

This project studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on female employees in Belgium. The research is based on a literature study and gender analysis of the relaunch plans, supplemented by interviews with relevant stakeholders where necessary. In addition, a survey on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on female workers in specific sectors is conducted among trade union militants and a focus group with trade union secretaries is carried ...

Individual differences in second language learning: Educational studies on self-efficacy, gender, motivation and willingness to communicate KU Leuven

Rianne Janssen
Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation, Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Kulak Kortrijk Campus

Language learning is a complex process, with many factors at the student, class, school and societal level playing a role. This dissertation comprises three studies that focus on the role of student-level variables in acquiring a language other than the mother tongue, i.e., a second language (L2). Each study relies on standardized proficiency tests and on questionnaire data from large, representative samples of students learning English, ...

Research visit to the Gender & Women's studies department UC Berkeley for ethnographic fieldwork and collaboration with Prof. dr. Salzinger. (R-13697) Hasselt University

Patrizia ZANONI
Research for Digitalisation, Diversity and Democracy, University of California, Berkeley
The Research Council of Hasselt University approved the application for participation in the exchange programme – PhD Mobility UC Berkeley. During this stay at UC Berkeley Floris De Krijger will perform research in cooperation with professor Salzinger from the Gender & Women's studies department UC Berkeley.

Gender experience in transition: stories of newcomers in Flanders portrayed HOGENT

Sofie Vindevogel
Substance use and Psychosocial Risk Behaviours, EQUALITY ResearchCollective, HOGENT
This project starts from the changing gender roles and experiences of male and female newcomers in Flanders and the difficulties and good practices associated with this. These people are looking for a new meaningful interpretation of their gender roles and identity experiences. However, research and practical experience show that this is often difficult. Being able to successfully redefine gender roles leads one to function more resiliently in ...

Implementation of a state of the art reference center for pharmaceutical and pharmacological studies in Cuba to support the use of natural product formulations composed of indigenous phytomedicinal and nutraceutical molecules. University of Antwerp

Luc Pieters
Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Proteinchemistry, proteomics and epigenetic signalling(PPES), University of Havana, Natural Products and Food - Research and Analysis (NatuRA)
The project aims to establish a multidisciplinary reference platform at CIDEM with improved capacity (infrastructure+ know-how/training) in natural drug research and development, which integrates preparation of plant extracts, extraction and purification, analytical and structural characterization, molecular pharmacological evaluation and design and evaluation of appropriate systems of drug delivery, which allows pharmaceutical and ...

Homonegativity and Gender Deviance: A Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Ideas on Gender and Sexuality in Flanders, The Netherlands, and the United States. University of Antwerp

Bart Eeckhout
Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC), Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
This project investigates to what extent and in what manner attitudes toward non-heteronormative sexualities can be explained by attitudes toward gender. The corpus of analyzed texts consists of book and film reviews from the period 1960 until today. For each compared region (Flanders, The Netherlands, the U.S.), two written media (a newspaper and a weekly) will be analyzed.

Positive and negative aspects of sexual health within the transgender and gender diverse population aged 55 and above. A quantitative and qualitative study on patients referred to gender clinics. Ghent University

Gunter Heylens
Department of Head and Skin

This grant application seeks funding for a Ph.D. research project focused on the positive and negative aspects of sexual health among transgender an gender diverse individuals aged 55 and above. Positive aspects will mainly focus on sexual satisfaction and pleasure and negative aspects will mainly include sexual violence victimization. The decision to focus on individuals aged 55 and older aims to comprehensively explore the lifelong impact ...

'Gender as a multi-layered issue in journalism.' A longitudinal, multi-methodical study of gender inequality in the field of journalism in Flanders. Ghent University

Karin Van De Wal
Department of Communication Sciences

In recent years, the numerical inequality between male and female journalists is increasingly eliminated. However, the field of journalism remains divided along gender lines and subtle mechanisms maintain gender inequality. The aim of this research project is to study whether and how two rencent trends in the media sector – commercialization and digitization – influence the underlying mechanisms of gender segregation in journalism.