Projects
The Policy Research Centre on Culture, Youth & Sports Ghent University
The policy research centre on Culture, Youth & Sports is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity consortium. It aims to support the policy and management cycle of Flemish policy on culture, youth and sport on the basis of scientific research. The main objectives of the Centre is to design and develop a systematic set of policy indicators and to develop survey research in the fields of culture, youth and sports participation. The ...
BOF-ZAP professorship in Japanese language and culture Ghent University
Mapping the Perception of Research Integrity Culture (PRICe) at KU Leuven KU Leuven
The main goal of this project is to gather empirical data to further support and nurture both university-wide and local research policies in stimulating an integer research environment. For this purpose, an instrument will be developed to measure how researchers themselves evaluate the research culture at KU Leuven. On the basis thereof, well-founded improvement strategies can - where necessary - be developed bottom-up and at the various ...
Architectural culture and spatial systematics KU Leuven
A Reappraisal of Jewish Poetry from Mamluk Egypt. Communal Identity and Elite Culture in the Arabic and Hebrew Oeuvre of Joseph ben Tanhum Yerushalmi Ghent University
Often, people look up to others who set high standards for themselves and pursue perfection, as they are seen as successful, ambitious and determined persons. However, research has shown that the pursuit of high standards might not always result in positive outcomes such as high performance and high self-esteem, but might even be related to ill-being and symptoms of eating disorders. In this project we examine whether the pursuit of high ...
Molecular mechanisms of the lifespan-doubling effect of axenic culture in the nematode caenorhabditis elegans. Ghent University
Axenically cultured C. Elegans lives twice as long compared to worms in bacterial culture. A list of genes will be tested for their role in this lifespan extension. In parallel, we will perform transcriptomics to gereate extra candidate genes. Genes that are shown to be required for axenic lifespan extension will be further characterzed by expression studies and Rnai.
William Blake, Education, and Eighteenth-Century Print Culture Ghent University
This project will offer original and innovative research into the ways in which Blake incorporated the eighteenth-century print-cultural tradition into the visual rhetoric of his complex compositions. Blake's illuminations will be analayzed in the context of the iconography of contemporary prints in order to produce a revaluation of this position in the history of Romanticism, which has for too long separated him off from the ...
A quantitative study of the development of an relationship between perceived racism, oppostional school and collective guilt culture and educational outcomes and wellbeing for native Flemish and Turkish and Moroccan minority students. Ghent University
This study employs longitudinal, multi-level modelling analyses technoques to investigate the development and inter-related nature of students' perceptions of racism, their adherence to an oppositional school and collective guilt culture and their educational and wider outcomes through a specifically designed longitudinal, random, selective survey of 7200 secondary native Flemish and Turkish and Moroccan minority students selected from 60 ...
Urban community under high pressure: an inquiry into social relations and political culture during the Ghent U+2018Calvinist RepublicU+2019 (1577-1584) Ghent University
The aim of this research is to understand how urban culture in the Southern Low Countries changed during the Reformation. One case will be the object of an in-depth study, namely that of the Ghent Calvinist Republic (1577-1584).