The GCND will be the first corpus of spoken Dutch dialects. It aims at making accessible a unique collection of dialect recordings from 768 places in Belgium, France and the south of the Netherlands, ...read more
This study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transgender health and care services, with the aim of improving the care offered. The rationale for a specific trans study ...read more
We conducted two rounds of focus group interviews with instructors from Belgium, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Jordan, Israel, Spain and the US on how the current crisis has an impact on ...read more
The project explores the representation and role of gestures during the early language development of deaf children, the synergy between actions, gestures and early signs of deaf children and how this ...read more
This project seeks to research the relationship between lived religion, perceptions and experiences of motherhood among Shiite women in Belgium. Under the umbrella notion of motherhood, the research includes women ...read more
The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
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
The proposed pioneering project will investigate the relationships between reading, Flemish Sign Language (VGT) sign phonological awareness, fingerspelling, and speechreading. To this day the impact of these phonological skills on the reading development of Flemish ...read more
Gentse Feesten: IPEM presents The Experimental Sessions. This year Gentse Feesten were cancelled… but luckily not entirely! There are some great online alternatives to the many concerts and events that ...read more
This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more