Projects
Understanding user-platform interactions and algorithmic impact: The development and implementation of a novel research methodology on Google Search KU Leuven
We are constantly confronted with an abundance of online information. One way to deal with this is to rely on algorithms to select and prioritize information. Despite the aura of objectivity, such algorithms are not value-free: they are sensitive to biases and external influences. Algorithms are often suspected of distorting information filtering, which in turn is assumed to affect our beliefs. This is an assumption that ignores the reality ...
Understanding user-platform interactions and algorithmic impact: The development and implementation of a novel research methodology on Google Search Ghent University
We are constantly confronted with an abundance of online information One way to deal with this is to rely on algorithms to select and prioritize information Despite the aura of objectivity, such algorithms are not value-free: they are sensitive to biases and external influences Algorithms are often suspected of distorting information filtering, which in turn is assumed to affect our beliefs This is an assumption that ignores the reality that ...
Search for a sterile neutrino using a short-baseline oscillation experiment at the BR2 research reactor Ghent University
The SoLid collaboration, involving the universities of Gent and Antwerpen, will
construct a short baseline reactor neutrino detector at the BR2 reactor of the SCK in
Mol. The objective of this project is to participate in the construction of the detector, the
measurements at the BR2 reactor, and the analysis of the experiment. Ultimately this
research will prove or disprove the existence a new kind ...
Travel Credit for a short research trip to the Methodist Hospital Research Institute (US) Hasselt University
Sabbatical Trui Steen: Deepening and extending research and international research collaboration on ‘co-creation and coproduction of public services' KU Leuven
I want to use this sabbatical to (1) re-source myself by reading, writing and collaborating with top researchers on public service co-production, and (2) the leading role I took over the past decade within Europe in setting up a to strengthen and expand a network of researchers active on the theme of co-production on a global scale. In a first period, I am planning a reading and writing retreat at Arizona State University, Center for ...
FWO travel grant for a short stay abroad in research into emotions in family firm top management teams from 08/04 to 05/05/2019 at the Research Institute for Family Business at WU Wien Hasselt University
Big data for empirical research in business and economics - Databases & software for research in accounting, banking, economics, and (corporate) finance Ghent University
Our research in business and economics is geared towards producing high-quality, mainly empirical, research aimed at publication in highly ranked journals. For the areas covered in this proposal (economics, banking, (corporate) finance, accounting), this objective requires permanent access to essential databases with granular raw data. They constitute the basic infrastructure to support all types of fundamental and policy-oriented research. ...
AnaEE-Flanders: Integrated infrastructure for experimental ecosystem research. University of Antwerp
The Nature and Consequences of Firms' Involvement and Collaboration in Basic Research. KU Leuven
Although prior studies have suggested that firms' involvement in basic scientific research, including collaboration with university scientists, can improve firms’ technological performance, little is known about the underlying mechanisms behind the performance benefits and about the contingencies for such benefits to occur. The aim of the proposed research project is to examine the nature and consequences of firms' involvement in basic ...