The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor ...read more
This interdisciplinary project aims at investigating climate variability on a local/regional level and its impact on human lifeways at the transition from the Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) to the Early Holocene in the Meuse ...read more
Project launched to drive awareness of new terrorist content online regulation amongst hosting service providers. Ghent University will be part of a consortium to drive greater awareness of and compliance ...read more
Scholarly work on the Edo-period pleasure quarters, both licensed (kuruwa) and otherwise (okabasho), has long been attempting to build a more precise picture of the life of female sex workers ...read more
The relation between postwar art and technology is widely considered in terms of progress, optimism, and prosperity. This project sets forth to re-examine postwar art and technology in subtler and ...read more
What do we know about Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)? Perusing the publications dedicated to the artist, including more than twenty separate museum monographs, the answer would seem to be both a ...read more
Stories of homelessness, both fictional and non-fiction ones, tend to occlude the factors that cause a loss of housing. From the time the term “homeless” first came to denote a ...read more
To this day and age, deep-routed, structural inequalities in health have been one of the most consistent and pressing challenges society has faced. Recent events, such as the COVID19 pandemic ...read more
This project aims to investigate the development of Chan hagiographic literature from mid-Tang (ca. 750) to early Northern Song (960–1127) China, concentrating on the emergence of the so-called “lamp records” ...read more
Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have. However, whereas political demographers such as Eric Kaufman have shown that ...read more