Projects
Teaching for divercity. A steppingstone to team-oriented perspectives on educating teachers and catering for student diversity. University of Antwerp
Unraveling the effects of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Branding: Developing a composite measure and investigating its effect on diversity attraction and retention. University of Antwerp
The crucial role of lecturers in dealing with diversity in higher education. A study on lecturers’ diversity ideologies and practices, their impact on students and the development of an intervention trajectory. KU Leuven
Compared to other regions, the Flemish educational system scores highly on quality, yet poorly on equality: significant achievement gaps between youth with and without a migration background and those with low versus high socio-economic status (SES) persist in secondary and tertiary education (European Center for Statistics, 2014; PISA, 2015; 2018). These inequalities in turn reduce the future career opportunities and living standards of ...
Provoking Diversity in Media using the Diversity Checker KU Leuven
This thesis describes the genesis of the Diversity Checker, a tool meant to provoke journalists into producing more diverse content in an intelligent fashion. Diversity in media is a very broad topic, and the project that this thesis is a part of is similarly broad in its scope. The multidisciplinary nature of the project enables the various disciplines to influence each other positively, and in particular it gives the work presented here a ...
Board diversity in family and non-famiy firms: a comparative analysis with a "true" diversity measure and the role of mediators. University of Antwerp
Characterisation of the relation between florsitic diversity, soil microbial diversity and biogeochemical processes in a pristine wetland (Bierbza, Poland) Ghent University
With this project, we want to investigate whether there is a link between floristic diversity and microbial community structure and how this affects nitrogen biogeochemistry. The specific objectives are: 1. To study the effect of changeing plant diversity on microbial community structure and key microorganisms 2. To quantify N-biogeochemistry and the uptake of N-species by micro-organisms under varying plant diversity 3. To study whether ...
The Business case for diversity Hasselt University
NEWS DIVING: News Sentiment Diversity, Index construction and Generative models Ghent University
The digitalization of the media sector has disrupted the access to news News articles are now available at a large scale and low cost across many news sources In spite of the increase in news volume, economic agents often only consume news provided by a non-diversified subset of news sources The lack of diversification reveals itself in both the choice of topics covered and the sentiment used in the news articles This may lead to a biased ...
How do different schools deal with cultural diversity and (why) does it matter for achievement gaps? KU Leuven
Many countries face severe ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in education. Combining recent insights from educational sciences and social-cultural psychology, this project formulates a novel route to understand and tackle these disparities - a route that studies how a school’s diversity model (SDM; i.e., approach to diversity) impacts achievement via psychosocial mechanisms at the teacher and pupil levels. Specifically, we aim to identify ...