Between 2019 and 2024, an interdisciplinary team at Ghent University studies the role of Bruges as a late-medieval harbour and the maritime-cultural landscape stretching along the Zwin. This tidal inlet was ...read more
This doctoral research investigates how the Japanese martial art of aikido can be used as an embodied pedagogy to enhance intercultural business communication training. The project aims to determine the ...read more
The project aims to explore the cognitive load of sign language interpreting and compare it with oral interpreting. The premise aims to establish whether sign language interpreters face a comparable ...read more
The question of prehistoric contact between indigenous hunter-gatherers and the first sedentary communities in Western Central Africa has so far mainly been addressed by linguists, geneticists and historians in relation to the ...read more
This project focuses on one of the most common and iconic structures in World War I archaeology: the trenches. Although the surface traces were erased in the post-war years and ...read more
The project investigates the evolution of the vowel system within the so-called 'Latin-Romace transition'. This research will be devoted to determining whether a sociolinguistic variation (both stylistic, diastratic and diatopic) ...read more
The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more
Through studies of material culture and the distribution of material remains, archaeology has a large potential to substantially contribute to the debate on how past economies functioned and evolved over ...read more
In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of non-standard language features (old and new vernacular) in public consumer comments and company responses on social media.