Projects
Sabbatical Pieter Verstraete: Doing history at the crossroad of disability, traffic & education KU Leuven
During my sabbatical period I want to research the history of traffic education in Belgium/Flanders. The history of traffic education is currently on the rise. For example, at the last ISCHE conference, one entire panel was devoted to this theme. My specific contribution would be: focus on the role of disability in this story. In concrete terms, on the one hand, I want to investigate since when traffic education was discussed in the education ...
Electrocatalytic dehydrogenative coupling of olefins to dienes KU Leuven
Conjugated dienes, and in particular 1,3-butadiene, are essential molecules in chemistry, e.g. for rubber production. Current synthesis routes face limitations, e.g. because of changing feedstocks or high energy demand. We here propose to couple olefins like ethylene directly to one another, with net removal of 2 H-atoms. The proposal is based on the applicant’s finding that Pd, in combination with a hydroxypyridine ligand, can couple olefins ...
Drawing the Invisible: Drawing Beyond Visual Perception in the Serial Drawing Practices of Dieter Roth (1930-1998), Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009) KU Leuven
‘Drawing the Invisible: Drawing Beyond Visual Perception in the Serial Drawing Practices of Dieter Roth (1930-1998), Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) and Philippe Vandenberg (1952-2009)’ examines the relationship between drawing, perception and reality. Starting from the findings in Jacques Derrida's (1930-2004) Mémoires d'aveugle (1990), the doctoral project questions the phenomenological assumption that drawing can penetrate visible reality. ...
Sabbatical Pieter Vermeulen: World Literary Value KU Leuven
During this sabbatical period, I am working on a research project that studies how, within the field of contemporary Anglophone literature, value is assigned to literature in general and certain literary works in particular. Using insights from the domains of literary sociology and the field of valuation studies, the project aims to analyze how different actors in the literary field (authors, critics, publishers, and literary texts) ...
Sabbatical Pieter Van den Broeck: Relational planning as collective critical inquiry. An institutionalist approach KU Leuven
With a book publication, this project aims to set out the main lines of a relational approach to spatial planning and development. Three inspirations come together for this. A first inspiration is a combination of literature in planning theory, social innovation theory and their backgrounds in various social sciences, in particular specific movements within theinstitutionalism. Secondly, the project builds on its own experiences with various ...
Sabbatical Pieter R. Adriaens: Ignorance and health care: a philosophical approach KU Leuven
On the one hand, I reserve part of my sabbatical research time for the promotion of a book that will be published at the end of 2021 at The University of Chicago Press: The Sciences of Sexual Orientation. I would like to give some academic lectures on it at some English and Scottish universities, but hopefully also some public lectures in and around Cambridge, where I would like to spend part of my sabbatical. Depending on the interest in the ...
Finish your plate and clean up your language! A mixed methods approach to Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch variation in child-directed speech at Flemish dinner table conversations. KU Leuven
This project studies variation in the way parents address their children, focusing on parents’ selection of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (‘tussentaal’, e.g. gij ‘you’) or Standard Belgian Dutch forms (e.g. jij ‘you’). To acquire a comprehensive view on the matter, a mixed methods approach is adopted, in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are integrated.
Sabbatical Dieter Baeyens: Reaching further: valorization of available research data and capitalizing on international collaboration KU Leuven
In terms of research resourcing: 1) Preparing a European COST application as PI, with multiple European partners: In this application we want to build on the insights of two doctoral projects that started under my supervision this academic year (as leverage to also weigh heavily on the content). An in-depth study of the literature, the writing out a research proposal and intensive consultation with European partners would be done in the ...