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The social state of Flanders: general contribution on 'Living in Flanders'. KU Leuven

Sien Winters
Research Group Social and Economic Policy and Social Inclusion, Research Centre of Economic History, Leuven
On the request of the Flemish parliament the study department of the Flemish government takes the initiative to essay a two-yearly report concerning the social situation in Flanders. In the report six life fields will be taken into consideration, among which housing. The project aims at a general contribution for this of providing. On the basis of existing literature and research results it is described how living in Flanders evolved during the ...

TIMSS2015 Grade 4 Flanders & PIRLS2016 Flanders KU Leuven

Bieke De Fraine, Sarah Gielen
Educational Effectiveness and Evaluation

Trends in Mathematics and Science Study 2015 : Flanders
Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2016 : Flanders

The research centre CO&E was responsible for the Flemish data collection of two large-scale international assessments in primary schools (Grade4):
the TIMSS2015-study focusses on math and science, whereas the PIRLS2016-study focusses on reading literacy.
These projects entail (1) data collection, ...

The social state of Flanders 2011: general contribution on 'Living in Flanders'. KU Leuven

Sien Winters
Research Group Social and Economic Policy and Social Inclusion
On de request of the Flemish parliament the Study Department of the Flemish government takes the initiative to essay a two-yearly report concerning the social situation in Flanders. The project aims at providing a general contribution for the report 2011 concerning the living situation in Flanders, in especially concerning housing quality and housing affordability. On the basis of existing literature similarities and differences with other ...

Greening of the tax system in Flanders KU Leuven

Kris Bachus
Research Group Sustainable Development

This research report provides an update of the MIRA studies of 2004, 2011 and 2013 on the greening of the tax system in Flanders. The study develops and updates indicators for measuring the greening of the tax system for Flanders. Since many of the fiscal competences in Belgium are at the federal level, we study the taxes that apply in Flanders, thus including both Flemish and federal tax measures.

Before providing the update ...

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.

Film, media and nation-building in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Gertjan Willems
Research Centre for Visual Poetics
This research project aims at investigating the relation between media and nation-building in Flanders. The project consists of two parts. First, the project focuses on film and nation-building in Flanders from 1945 until today. Through quantitative and qualitative textual film analyses, the project critically examines the cinematic representation of Flanders and Flemish identities. Second, the project places these findings in their broader ...

Research into the collaboration between private collectors/private collection management institutions and (semi)public cultural heritage institutions in Flanders. University of Antwerp

Annick Schramme
Management
Flanders has a large number of private collectors with impressive art collections with pieces that are part of our collective heritage. Worldwide, Flanders has the highest concentration of private collectors. In the past, these collectors often took on a role as lenders or donors in relation to the (semi-)public cultural heritage institutions. They have proven to be a valuable partner for museums through various collaborations. Some fine ...

Negotiating Landed Commons and their Governance: The Case of Slow Paths in Flanders KU Leuven

Pieter Van den Broeck
Geography and Tourism, Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning

This PhD research reveals the detrimental social and ecological aspects of privatisation, fragmentation and encroachment of urban and rural spaces in Flanders. It sets out to explore these aspects at the intersection of spatial planning, ownership regimes and land use rights. It aims to understand how the development of community-based shared land use patterns (Commons) in Flanders help to transcend the ubiquitous private-public divide in ...

'Educated brains raising brains in need of education'. Critical metaphor analysis of conceptualisations of 'good parenthood' in (neuro)Discourse of parenthood in Flanders KU Leuven

Stefan Ramaekers
Education and Society

SUMMARY – ‘Educated brains raising brains in need of education’. Critical metaphor analysis of conceptualisations of ‘good parenthood’ in (neuro)Discourses of parenthood in Flanders

Research about the relation between ‘good parenthood’ and discourse about the brain predominantly stems from investigated contexts of Anglo-Saxon countries and regions, such as the UK and the US. Literature study indicates that this relation has not yet ...