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  • Later-in-life intimacy. 50+ women's subversive use of space and place

    2021

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    • Belgium
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Gender

  • Muslim Egypt in Flux - Negotiating Individual (non-)Religiosities

    2021

    My postdoctoral research in Egypt (2016-2019, 2023, 2024) focused on religious and non-religious identities, family structures, and intergenerational negotiations of Islamic norms. The monograph innovatively highlights the intimate spaces of ...read more

    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Steunpunt centrale toetsen in onderwijs. Toetsontwikkeling Nederlands

    2021

    Het Steunpunt Centrale Toetsen in Onderwijs zet in op de ontwikkeling van rijke toetsen voor wiskunde en Nederlands in functie van onderwijsontwikkeling. Het Steunpunt bestaat uit een consortium van alle ...read more

    • Assessment
    • Belgium
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • language learning
    • Language technology
    • Language Testing
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys

  • Unruly pleasures. Women, aging and the work of intimacy

    2021

    This project explores how older women engage with intimacy, sensuality, and pleasure within professionally facilitated settings. It investigates what these practices offer women as they age and examines their potential ...read more

    • Ageing Studies
    • Anthropology
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Sexuality

  • Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities

    2020

    The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more

    • Dutch
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative

  • Documenting the Bantu languages of the last hunter-gatherer communities of the Mai-Ndombe and Lower Kasai regions (DRC). A pioneering phonetic and laboratory phonological study

    2020

    Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Area studies
    • Bantu historical linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Evolutionary linguistics
    • Field research
    • Historical sociolinguistics
    • Laboratory phonetics and speech science
    • laboratory phonology
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • phonetic documentation
    • Phonetics and phonology
    • sociophonetics

  • Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

    2020

    Through an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to redress current understanding of Neolithic land-use. Hereby, a synergy between archaeology, environmental studies and applied geophysics will provide insight into diachronic human-environment ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Environmental Studies
    • Field research
    • Geoarchaeology
    • Geographic and map based
    • Geophysical prospection
    • Neolithic
    • past land-use
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Soil Physics
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • Directionality in morphosyntactic change. West-Coastal Bantu as a historical test case for linguistic theory

    2020

    The proposed research will shed new light on a debate within Bantu, the largest language family in Africa and a recent offshoot of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest phylum. Many non-Bantu ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Bantu
    • Bantu comparative linguistics
    • Bantu historical linguistics
    • Bantu linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Comparative linguistics
    • Comparative Method
    • degrammaticalization
    • Field research
    • Grammaticalization
    • Historical linguistics
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • morphosyntactic reconstruction
    • Niger-Congo
    • Proto-Bantu
    • West-Coastal Bantu

  • Pollino archaeological landscape project

    2020

    The Pollino Archaeological Landscape Project is a research collaboration between the departments of Archaeology of the universities of Ghent (Belgium) and Groningen (The Netherlands), and the Gruppo Speleologico 'Sparviere' (Italy), ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • ArcheOs. Research laboratory for biological anthropology

    2020

    The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Anthropology
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • History
    • Isotopes
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • osteoarchaeology
    • Osteology
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • proteomics
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe