Projects
Making Amnesty international: connections, disconnections, and the uneven geography of international human rights, 1961-2001 KU Leuven
How does an organisation become international? How does it overcome the political, social, economic, cultural and material barriers to transnational collaboration - and what happens when it can't overcome them? This project explores this question by taking a global look at the creation of Amnesty International, one of the most well-known international non-governmental organisations in the world. This project will map the development of ...
Transport infrastructure and regional development in China during the Maoist era KU Leuven
1. Introduction
This project aims to investigate the link between transport infrastructure and regional economic development in China during the Mao era. Economists argue that public investments have a positive impact on economic growth for a number of reasons. As we will elaborate in what follows, the Chinese story contains many unique and intriguing elements which complicate this statement. A thorough investigation of the topic will ...
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 ...
Understanding the development of business culture in India: a contemporary history analysis of the content and the impact of Business education KU Leuven
Management and business schools constitute a dense cross-border network of knowledge institutes that are responsible for training significant parts of populations. The theories, tools and methods taught at management schools have been diffused on a large scale and have impregnated different levels of social organisation. Management schools have played a significant role in the legitimation of new knowledges that are co-productive to the ...
Advanced Multibody Modelling of Gears for System-Level Dynamics of Mechanical Transmissions - Development and Experimental Validation of Transmission Error and Root Strain KU Leuven
This PhD dissertation focuses on the development and experimental validation of a multibody element to reach efficient system-level dynamic simulations for geared power transmissions, having three-dimensional gear contact detail.
The multibody element is built on a proposed methodology which is capable of accounting for detailed gear contact in system-level dynamics, such that the gears are coupled to the supporting structural elements ...
Compliant actuation for humanoid robots Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Moving language barriers. A mixed-methods study of the implementation of school-based language policies in primary schools KU Leuven
All schools in Flanders are mandated to implement a school-based language policy in order to enhance students’ proficiency in Dutch, the language of instruction (Corson, 1990; Mullis et al., 2016). To date, little empirical evidence is available on how schools implement their SLP, and whether it enhances language teaching and learning. This dissertation investigated whether schools manage to implement a policy that effectively promotes ...