Projects
Modelling freight consolidation from the perspective of shippers and carriers. Hasselt University
Sabbatical Laurens Cherchye: Household decisions and individual welfare: a life cycle perspective KU Leuven
This research focuses on the analysis of family spending of income and time (including labor supply and domestic work), and its impact on the wealth of individual family members (parents and children). In my previous research, I developed non-parametric methods for a revealed preference analysis of these family decisions based on static family consumption models. I followed a so-called non-unitary approach, in which the interaction between ...
Research on development and application of guidelines regarding the use of psychopharmaceuticals in adults with intellectual disabilities and problem behaviors from a Quality of Life perspective HOGENT
The Developmental Course of Youth Borderline Personality Pathology From A Transactional Trait-Parenting Perspective. Ghent University
This proposal focuses on the development of youth borderline personality pathology from transactional processes between borderline symptoms and (dysfunctional) parenting across childhood and adolescence. These bidirectional influences are examined from a between and a within-individual multi-informant perspective, exploring how (fluctuations in) early borderline symptoms and parenting influence each other over time and shape the developmental ...
Environmental Sustainability in the Sport Sector. A Perspective on Sport Organisations and Sport Events KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation focuses on the complex relation between sport and environmental sustainability. The sport sector depends on the environment for a large part of its activities, but at the same time, it impacts the environment by using resources, occupying in- and outdoor spaces, generating waste and emitting greenhouse gases. While this is just a sliver of what some other sectors are contributing to global climate change, pollution ...
Sabbatical Niels Bammens: Fundamental rules and principles of tax law from the perspective of state-building KU Leuven
The sabbatical period is mainly aimed at starting research into the design and interpretation of the ground rules and principles of tax law in the light of the way in which states came about. Those ground rules and principles are generally accepted as axiomatic and applied without much regard for their historical origin and constant evolution. Given the position they occupy in the legal order (and taking into account the need for legal ...
Unravelling Team Compositions for Nursing Teams in Acute Care Hospitals to Reinforce Patient and Team Outcomes: A Dynamic Perspective. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Marc Craps: A multi-actor perspective on transdisciplinarity for sustainability KU Leuven
Since my doctoral research on multi-actor collaboration in the Andes 20 years ago, my academic interest has always focused on a social process approach to complex sustainability questions. In recent years, awareness of the need for this has grown in society and in the academic world. That
translates into an interest in transdisciplinary research programs and institutes, both within KU Leuven and beyond. Because of my expertise, I am ...