Projects
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven
This project scrutinizes the relation between the way narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee 1999). This is also thanks to positioning ...
Essays on household economics in Sub Saharan Africa. KU Leuven
All three essays that constitute this thesis empirically analyse various areas of household decision and human development: education, health and gender equality, in this very order.
Using a compilation of 86 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) rounds from 34 countries, Chapter 2 assesses the impact of household fertility on children schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Exploiting plausible exogeneity of twins birth to address ...
Students, history teachers and the national past. Research into students' and history teachers' representation of and beliefs about the national past: an exploration regarding context, methodology and strategy. KU Leuven
Greenways as a New Planning Strategy in the Pearl River Delta, China KU Leuven
The term of greenway is a derivation from greenbelt and parkway, which refer to linear green open spaces that serve for ecological, recreational, cultural, aesthetic, or other purposes compatible with the concept of sustainable land use. In the 1990s, the greenway movement in the world arose as a response, driven by basic human needs, to urbanization. In the diverse contexts, greenways have been an adaptive ...
Strategic Research Programme: Understanding the competitiveness and functional role of microorganisms in fermented food ecosystems Vrije Universiteit Brussel
End of term tests in history as an access to the study of teaching practices. A methodological survey and two case studies. KU Leuven
Doing restorative justice in intercultural contexts: An alternative discourse of justice and security KU Leuven
The dissertation explores critically the potential and the limits of the restorative justice discourse in addressing conflicts in intercultural contexts in Europe, as an alternative discourse on both justice and security. The exploration revolves around two main questions: 1. How can we conceptualise the application of restorative justice at a range of community-based and social conflicts?; 2. How can ...
Transmission and Transformation of European Church Types in China: The Churches of the Scheut Missions beyond the Great Wall, 1865-1955 KU Leuven
Scientific support fund: Universal Compassion and Prosociality: An Interdisciplinary Project on the Variation and Cultivation of Universal Compassion and Its Relationship to Social Emotions, Prejudice and Prosocial Behavior in Youth (VOPPU95) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
challenge to develop cooperative social relationships within groups
and, especially in increasingly diverse societies, between groups.
Scientific research on meditation- and mindfulness-based mental
training interventions has grown and has shown positive effects on
both well-being and prosocial behavior. However, little research
exists that ...