Projects
Language change, cultural change? Social deixis through nominal and pronominal address in the history of English KU Leuven
Address terms constitute a core resource for realizing social deixis. Because of address terms' prominent social function, changes in address systems are often attributed to cultural changes (e.g. recent changes in address between children and parents may reflect changing parent-child relationships). However, these explanations have rarely been tested on a systematic basis. Cultural explanations of changes in address usage are most convincing ...
European Social Survey: Monitoring social and political change in Europe. KU Leuven
The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial, academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of its diverse populations. The ESS creates an international database about social and political attitudes, covering topics such as immigration, well-being, citizen involvement, justice, and climate change. To date, almost 400.000 citizens in 36 countries have taken part in the ESS, leading to a ...
European Social Survey: Monitoring social and political change in Europe KU Leuven
The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial, academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour of Europe’s populations. The ESS creates an international database about social and political attitudes, covering topics such as immigration, well-being and health, democracy, justice, and climate change. To date, almost a half million citizens in 40 countries have taken part in the ESS, leading ...
Strengthen the academic eco-system for social entrepreneurship as a catalyst to job creation and social and economic change KU Leuven
Implementation of a TEAM project 2018 as part of the university cooperation for development between KU Leuven and the university of Pretoria in South-Africa about the strengthening of the academic eco-system for social entrepreneurship as a catalyst to job creation and social and economic change.
Public support for climate change mitigation and eco-social policies in Europe: the role of social justice considerations in legitimising and promoting the transition to low-carbon societies KU Leuven
In the face of accelerating global warming and attendant natural disasters, it seems that governments all over the world eventually have to take measures mitigating the most adverse consequences of climate change. However, such measures are likely to be opposed if they do not reflect public attitudes. To better understand attitudes towards climate change mitigation policies (CMP), and in particular what influences support of them, scholars ...
Changing work, changing incomes: designing a responsive social protection system for all - CHANGE KU Leuven
The COVID-19 pandemic once again underlined the fundamental role played by welfare states in protecting household incomes from exogenous shocks. Still, preliminary analyses show that specific groups, such as those in flexible employment, independent workers and students, were not sufficiently covered, and this in spite of large extensions of social protection in developed welfare states. While this inadequate coverage became highly visible ...
Urbanism and Social Change. Learning from Forgotten Histories of City Making KU Leuven
The city of Rotterdam exemplifies the Dutch belief in the malleability of urban society. City-making is then primarily associated with a pro-active policy-making approach that is translated into practice through the realization of ambitious urban development projects. But the dominant image of Rotterdam as a ‘malleable city’ not only reveals how urban society is being planned and organized. It conceals at the same time other histories of ...
Behavioural change based on the self-categorisation theory: promotion of physical activity among sedentary older adults (intervention study among older adults on intrinsic and social determinants of physical activity and health-related behaviour). KU Leuven
Social risks new paths : climate change KU Leuven
Climate change presents society with new challenges and significant changes. For example, natural disasters often cause enormous material damage, and global warming poses serious health problems. In addition, the labour market is transforming towards a more sustainable economy, which means that some sectors (e.g. carbon intensive industries) are especially affected by this transformation. Furthermore, many measures aimed at reducing pollution ...