Projects

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Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics. A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017)

2019

Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather than by ...read more
Language technology
Literary studies
Lobbying in late antiquity. Letters, networks and decision processes (4th - 5th c. A.D.)

2019

This project presents a new interpretation of the functioning of the late antique state and society (4th-5th c. A.D.). Long neglected, Late Antiquity is now a blooming field of research ...read more
History
Scanning Electron Microscopy at the core of Earth Sciences: reading 4 billion years of history in backscattered light.

2019

This project aims to replace the Dept. of Geology’s aging Scanning Electron Microscope with a modelthat is up to challenges of modern Earth Science research in geology, archaeology and soil management. The ...read more
Archaeology
Comparative
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations

2019

The Flemish region cannot cope with the guidelines set out in the European Water Framework Directive for good water quality, mainly due to excess nutrients. Over 80% of the rivers and ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Comparative
Field research
human impact
past demography
past land-use
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Scheldt basin
Surveys
Discourse markers in Italian L2 and heritage language

2018

The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian-Dutch speakers who ...read more
Re-assembling the past. Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, early Syriac historiography, and its Byzantine and Arab context (582-842)

2018

The crucial importance of Syriac historiography for the general history of the Mediëval Middle East has recently been highlighted (e.g. early history of Islam; crusades). Even if the genre ...read more
Turning diversity into capacity

2018

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Belgium
Capacity building
Comparative
Contemporary
Cross-sectoral valorisation
Diversity
Dutch
English
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North-South exchange
Social inequalities in education
IMPID. Interpreter-mediated police interviewing cum drafting

2018

The proposal aims at describing interpreter-mediation in the context of police interviews that result in written records and to assess the impact of interpreter-mediation on the interview and the written ...read more
Young women’s work in neoliberal global contexts. A case of call centres in South Africa

2018

The study explored women’ participation in the call centres industry in South Africa. In this context the call centre industry is viewed as a global industry that uses technology to ...read more
FLEPOSTORE. Flemish pottery and stone reference collection

2018

Development of a reference collection called FLEPOSTORES: a Ghent University based Flemish reference collection for researchers and students working in archaeology, geology and cultural heritage studies. The collection will offer ...read more
Archaeology
Art

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