Projects
Traveling practices in education for democratic citizenship KU Leuven
Assessing and promoting newcomer children's psychosocial, linguistic, and cultural developmental outcome: A two-phased mixed-method interdisciplinary study KU Leuven
Preventive school-based interventions to promote the mental well-being of refugee and migrant adolescents KU Leuven
Today, European societies face the challenge of promoting the integration of growing numbers of refugee and migrant adolescents. Supporting the mental well-being of these young newcomers is herein pivotal, with recent scholarly work emphasizing the preventive role of schools in promoting mental well-being. Yet, there is still little robust evidence on how preventive school-based interventions may impact newcomers’ well-being. This project ...
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation. KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation that centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are encouraged and rewarded to fit their socio-cultural ...
Research Grant Emmanuel Van de Schueren to Suzanne Vanhauwaert: BRIP1 and BIRC5 as novel therapeutic targets in neuroblastoma Ghent University
Neuroblastoma (NB) is an aggressive neural crest derived childhood tumor with poor survival rates, especially in
older children. Thus far, three bona fide oncogenic driver genes have been identified in neuroblastoma: MYCN,
amplified in roughly half of all aggressive neuroblastoma cases, ALK mutations or amplifications in 10% of cases
and rare LlN28B amplifications. Chromosome 17q gain is by far the most common ...
Ready or not? A study on the effects of kindergarten retention KU Leuven
A validation study of the Teacher Judgement Inventory. University of Antwerp
Nurturing safe, nutritious and sustainable food consumption behaviour: a multi-stakeholders intervention at primary school level in Indonesia Ghent University
The project, hosted by 5 institutions (UGent, UGM, UNS, UNDIP, Rikolto), aims to identify gaps in current status of food safety, nutrition, and food behaviour so to establish an ideal food meal system model (safe, nutritious, healthy and sustainable) at primary schools in Indonesia. Eight work packages will be implemented covered by 2 Ph.D students (topic 1. nutritional and behaviour; 2. food safety and risk assessment). A coordination among ...
Towards a holistic framework of media-effects within familial interaction patterns: A family system approach KU Leuven
The rapid proliferation of digital technologies has brought about profound transformations in the family system. However, methodological constraints have historically hampered detailed investigations of family media practices. Hence, the general aim of this project is to address this need by developing a holistic model of media-effects within and on familial interactions based on the family system approach. To this end, this project will ...