In recent years the hegemonic, biomedical approach to psychic trauma, which focuses on the individual and is based on a mechanical idea of trauma, has been strongly criticized. This project aims ...read more
This project aims to trace the intrusion of concepts of the sacral within early modern poetics as it relates to the development of growing autonomy within the literary system. It ...read more
The Centre for Diversity and Learning (Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren) supported the development of Community Schools in Flanders. This support consisted off (1) Developing a website on Community Schools ( ...read more
This research project investigates the way in which Leonhard Euler's optics, mechanics and acoustics, influenced the eighteenth century transition from early modern natural philosophy to modern science. The main question ...read more
During the last couple of decades, evolutionary theory has expanded its subject matter beyond its traditional topics, such as the origin of life, the study of biodiversity, and the physiological ...read more
In this research project, I investigate the development of complex sentence structures in Swedish as a foreign language. In this longitudinal study, the learners’ use and development of finite subordinate ...read more
This study is about changing culture. It deals with the acquisition of a mobile phone by young people in Yaoundé (Cameroon), its level of usage or of social connectivity, and ...read more
Based on eight chapters, half of which have been published as research papers, this thesis demonstrates the role of cultural factors such as urbanity in response styles of survey data. ...read more