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Bodies at work: Exploring the relationship between physical work environment, interoception, and well-being KU Leuven

The design of the physical work environment—i.e. the spatial design and indoor environmental qualities—is increasingly recognized as an important factor in employees’ health and well-being. Yet, how differences between employees’ bodies and resulting spatial, bodily, and emotional experiences affect their well-being in the workplace is rarely considered. Through a mixed-methods approach, the project “Bodies at work” sets out to investigate how ...

Sabbatical Hans De Witte: Development of a book on Well-being at work KU Leuven

Hans De Witte

Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology

I would like to deepen a number of insights from Work Psychology (a) through a further literature study, and (b) empirically tested with recent data from Flanders, with the aim of developing a book summarizing the most recent state of affairs with regard to well-being at work in Flanders/Belgium. With this I would have liked to have 'crowned' my career as an occupational psychologist, by offering a synthesis of the state of affairs in the ...

‘My work feels like home’: Effects of companion animals at the 2020 (home-)workplace on employee wellbeing and performance KU Leuven

Marijke Verbruggen

Department of Work and Organisation Studies, Leuven, Centre for Sociological Research

The role of companion animals in the lives of employees and the potential benefits for organizations when facilitating employees’ care for their pets has been largely neglected in research to date. However, the new labour market generation of millennials surpasses baby boomers as the largest pet owning generation and will make up for up to 75% of the workforce by 2025. First, companies may allow pets on site. Pets at work may increase employees’ ...

Development of a concise screening instrument for the risk management of bullying and harassment at work. KU Leuven

Elfi Baillien

Department of Work and Organisation Studies, Brussels Campus, Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology

This project develops an instrument for managing the most important risk factors for bullying and harassment at work. Despite being mandatory (e.g. Act of 2014), no tools to date specifically address this interpersonal stressor. The current tools tap general psychosocial well-being with the draw-backs of (a) being lengthy, (b) lacking scientific base, (c) not acknowledging the interpersonal nature of the phenomenon, (d) giving few leads for risk ...

Latin authority and constructional transparency at work: neologisms in the French medical vocabulary of the Middle Ages and their fate. KU Leuven

Michèle Goyens

Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

The formation of Modern French scientific vocabulary has followed a number of strict morphological patterns since approx. the 18th century, called neoclassical composition (a.o. Cottez 1980, Corbin & Paul 2000, Fradin 2003, Namer 2009: 315 ff., Villoing 2012). Up till then, linguistic processes were much less uniform, during the Middle Ages in particular, a period of intensive translation activity characterized by a need for an adequate ...

Investigating the weak interaction’s structure and symmetries at low energy KU Leuven

Nathal Severijns

Nuclear and Radiation Physics

Nathal Severijns research is dealing with precision measurements at the border of nuclear and particle physics, to investigate the properties of the weak interaction at low energy. The focus is on studying the symmetries and structure of the weak interaction in the beta decay of radioisotopes or using ultracold neutrons. Experiments and projects are always performed in collaboration with partners from international universities/institutes and ...