Projects
The Future of Retailing: Investigating the Effects of Customer Value Enhancing Initiatives on Consumer Behaviour KU Leuven
The retailing landscape is changing and retailers are confronted with new emerging sales channels, increasing digitalization and shifting consumer needs, wants and shopping behaviour. How should retailers react to evolving markets and how can they sustain in creating customer value? With this research, we want to focus on contemporary developments and challenges of retailers and how they can translate into customer value enhancements, while ...
Food and nutrition labelling: consumer perception, expectations and future perspectives for the food industry and catering sector Ghent University
The objective of this project is to investigate consumer perception and expectations related to food and nutrition labelling. Nutrition profiles are established and compared with the presently available and alternative nutrition profiling and food labelling systems. The consumer research includes qualitative and quantitative research. The potential impact of nutrient profiling and nutrition labelling in terms of behavioural change will be ...
Fashioning 'old and new'. Secondary markets, commodity value conventions and the dawn of consumer societies in Western Europe (18th-19th centuries) University of Antwerp
Consumer revolution and changes in household consumption in probate inventories in Northwestern Germany (16.-19. c.). University of Antwerp
Research project concerning the effect of the media-educational project "Newspapers in the classroom" on reading habits and consumer habits with regard to newspapers Ghent University
Qualitative research through in-depth interviews with immigrants an students from the second chance education system, assessing their attitude towards newspapers and the media, the appreciation and social implementation of the project and the possible contribution of newspapers to the integration process.
The rise of mass consumption in Belgium (1945-1989): the social and political construction of affluence. Ghent University
This project highlights mass consumption in the Keynesian welfare state as the outcome of negotiations. Three types of social movements are investigated: the Association des Consommateurs, the co-operative movement and new social movements such as Anders Gaan Leven. By looking at institutional structures, discourses and actions, these intermediaries between citizen and state are put in a new perspective, thereby re-evaluating the first era of ...
Microalgae with essential assets
Thomas More Kempen
Research question: What are the challenges and opportunities for realizing a sustainable algae chain in Flanders and what solutions lie ahead?
It is certain that protein consumption in Flanders is not sustainable. More animal proteins are consumed than are good for health and climate. Not only ...
Pain Education after CANcer (PECAN)-app: a new, innovative delivery method for pain science education in breast cancer survivors University of Antwerp
Cinema Located. A study on place, space and social experience of cinema in Ghent (1982-2012) Ghent University
The multiplex celebrated its 30th anniversary, yet very little empirical research has been done on the place, space and experience of cinema culture since its emergence (Hanson, 2007; Klinger, 2006; Acland, 2003). The workings of Hollywood, cross-cultural reception and the Americanisation of the cinema culture in non-American domains have been subject to many critiques (Krämer, 2011; Trumpbour, 2002; Vasey, 1997; Thompson, 1985; Guback, ...