Projects
Female Faces, Intellectual Identities. Visual and Textual Portraits of Learned Women in Early Modern Collective Biographies KU Leuven
DIversity SCreening EducatiOn (DISCO): evidence-based, user-friendly and automated feedback for schools and cities. Ghent University
The Centre for Diversity & Learning (CDL) is a unique research unit at UGent that combines research, instrument development and training for practitioners. Our mission is to consistently translate our research insights into tools and coaching that empowers practitioners in creating inclusive education. Inclusive education refers to education systems that provide quality education for all students. Recently we validated DISCO, a survey ...
Records of Resistance: Militia Governance in the Valley of the Apurímac river during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict (1980-2000) Ghent University
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates the emergence of the Civil Self-Defence Committees (CADs) as autonomous institutions providing local governance and social order in the Valley of the Apurímac River during the internal armed conflict in Peru ...
The social dynamics behind the transition to farming in the Low Countries (5th millennium BC): from pottery technology to farmer-forager interactions Ghent University
The Low Countries have an international reputation as an interesting case study area for the spread of agriculture among foraging populations. Over the course of the 5th millennium BC, foragers in N Belgium and The Netherlands adopted three major technologies through contact with early farming populations: pottery production, followed by animal husbandry and crop cultivation. To date, however, the question remains which farming populations ...
Deubiquitinase UCHL1 targeting as part of new combinatorial treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma: a preclinical assessment Ghent University
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common primary liver cancer. At diagnosis many patient tumors already are in an advanced stage for which no curative options exist. The current therapies such as sorafenib or anti-VEGF treatment (alone or in combination treatment) only extend the bad prognosis for these patients with a few months of average overall survival and induce severe side effects. New therapy options extending the life ...
Integrated care model for home-dwelling older patients with depression and physical multimorbidity (I-CONNECT) KU Leuven
Facing Diversity. Representations of Early Modern Learned Women Writers and the Construction of intellectual and literary authority (1500-1850) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the learned has long been that of a man. This project reveals a different lineage. It investigates female representations of intellectual and literary authority at the dawn of modern science in the early modern era, systematically analyzing printed textual and visual portraits of women writers as agents of public authority. In traditional historiography on women’s contributions to the early modern European ...
Neuron-glia biology in neurodegeneration. KU Leuven
"The eye as a window to the brain” is the central theme of my research. I envision to focus on the interrelatedness of neurobiology and ophthalmology and to exploit this cross-over of disciplines to enrich fundamental research into central nervous system (CNS) function. By concentrating on the retina-brain axis, I will unravel mechanisms of intercellular communication in the CNS, with emphasis on neuronglia interactions. I will study these ...
Forming and Performing Female Identities through Othering Interior Garments in Belle-Époque Belgium and France Ghent University
During the nineteenth-century, fashion etiquette distinguished many categories of clothing suitable for specific occasions, locations, and times of day. One category, which expanded from the 1870s onwards, was that of interior gowns or undress. While most were relatively simple, the interior gowns of wealthy women could be lavish, their design inspired by a spatio-temporal Other, meaning, either a prior historical period or a non-Western ...