Organisations
Architecture and Design KU Leuven
The aim of the Division Architecture and Design at the Department of Architecture is to understand and foster design as a way of knowing and means of knowledge production, within the context of scientific research, university education, and the professional practice of architecture and urbanism. Our research comprises a dialectic process of analytical investigation and operational synthesis, with a focus on creativity as a catalyst for ...
Centre Leo Apostel Vrije Universiteit Brussel
CLEA investigates the possibilities of interdisciplinary research, concentrating on the search for integrating world views. In a rapidly changing and complex society, scientific, social, and cultural knowledge is fragmented. This fragmentation leads to a growing gap between the exact sciences and the humanities (the two cultures), and between the layman and the specialist in general. Even more it entails the alienation of humankind from his ...
Interface Demography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ID is the multidisciplinary unit for social demography and population studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). The main objective of ID is to address socio-demographic challenges related to social sustainability from a multidimensional perspective revolving around the notion of equity as a ‘cross-cutting theme’. The research program gravitates around six mutually interconnected research lines: (1) sustainable work and employment; (2) ...
Kenniscentrum Gezinswetenschappen Odisee vzw
Research & Valorisation Antwerp Management School
Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The research centre for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication was set up in 1990 by Prof. Dr. Jean-Claude Burgelman at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, within the department of Communication Studies. In 2000, Prof. Dr. Caroline Pauwels became director of the centre. SMIT research focuses on socio-economic and policy aspects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and underlying infrastructures. It combines both ...
Accountancy, Auditing and Business Financing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The main research domains of the department ACCO are: 1. In the field of accounting: creative accounting, income smoothing, income manipulation; 2. In the field of auditing: audit switching, audit of small companies; 3. In the field of business finance: project analysis.
Accounting Research Group (main work address Leuven) KU Leuven
The research group Accounting conducted research in three sub-domains: auditing, financial reporting and management accounting. The research group masters a broad variety of research methodologies: empirical/archival, experimental, analytical and case study. As it is challenging to compete at an international level in the three sub-domains with the limited number of staff available, and as the competition worldwide in the financial reporting ...