Projects
Unraveling past urbanisation: geoarchaeology brings to light the invisible record of towns in Northwestern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Strategic Research Programme: Demographic challenges of the 21st century Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although maybe indirect, infrastructure is a key accelerator of progress in research and for maintaining DEMO's ...
Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven
This dissertation is divided into four chapters, each built around a different research paper that falls under the broad field of `development economics'. The analysis in all chapters is mostly empirical, relying on primary data collected in recent years from East Africa. Of course, theory plays a key role in directing the analysis. Chapters 1 and 2 study different aspects of female empowerment and household decisions in Tanzania. Chapters 3 ...
The Business case for diversity Hasselt University
Research on empowerment of women with a migration background KU Leuven
Antwerp is a diverse city in all its facets, including gender and origin. To generate more equal opportunities, the city wants to put all its efforts into increasing the participation of women with a migration background (=VMMA) in society. This is not only about participation in the labour market, but also about social and civic participation. That is why the city wanted to examine which thresholds in society (discrimination, childcare, ...
Discourse analysis in the European Parliament. An investigation and comparison of Dutch and Polish Parliamentarians' interventions. KU Leuven
The objective of this research project is to investigate and analyse Polish and Dutch Members' of the European Parliament (MEP) interventions, explore the use of their argumentation methods and make a comparative analysis. In the light of Parliamentarians' cultural and linguistic traditions and conventions, the project will compare and analyse the rhetoric from different perspectives such as i.a.: use of language levels, value-laden or ...
The palaeodemographic and palaeopathological study of the St.Rombout's cemetery, Mechelen KU Leuven
Contextual archaeo-anthropological studies – whereby skeletal and archaeological analyses are treated as one whole – are still uncommon. The detailed study of a sub-sample of 400 individuals from the excavation of St. Rombout’s cemetery in Mechelen, Belgium (10th-18th centuries AD) nevertheless demonstrates its enormous potential. A macroscopic study of mortality patterns and age and sex composition (palaeodemography) and the investigation of ...