Projects
Strategic Research Programme: Center for model-based system improvement - From Computer-Aided Engineering to Model-Aided Engineering Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lady Justice’s Thresholds: Access to and Inequality in Early Modern Law Courts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A survey of the exposure of the Belgian employees to dangerous chemicals University of Antwerp
Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (EDGE) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
User modeling for personalized Ad retrieval KU Leuven
The era of Social Media-as we know it today-started around the early 2000s. Social media enable a form of virtual content sharing that is fundamentally different than before. Social media content is no longer created and published by specific individuals, but instead is continuously modified by all users in a collaborative fashion. Nowadays, users around the world are taking advantage of social media as one of their key components of ...
The Business case for diversity Hasselt University
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 ...
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 ...