This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
This doctoral project investigates the role of polysemy (the phenomenon where a word has multiple meanings) and word families (groups of words derived from the same root) in the process ...read more
Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Belgium, accounting for ca. 27.000 yearly deaths. Despite an abundance of medical research, the history of cancer (victims) is basically unwritten. ...read more
Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts ...read more
Crisis communication research has resulted in a set of evidence-based guidelines that describe how an organization should communicate with the public during a crisis. As such, organizations are recommended to ...read more
This project focuses on the Ghent art world of the 1980s, an understudied part of art history. During this period, there was a clear motive towards placing Belgian art on ...read more
Listening to a language which is not one's own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especialy so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional ...read more
The proposed project sets out to examine how sociophonetic variation is acquired as part of L2 phonological acquisition in learners of French as a Foreign Language (FFL). Similar to first ...read more
Nature conservation is a major concern today. However, we forget that in 20th-century France, during the decline of its rural society, French female authors had already turned to nature writing. ...read more