Community Schools, extended Schools, full service schools: all these labels refer to schools that open up to the world and where collaboration between different partners, linked to the lives of ...read more
My research aims to answer two main questions. The first question we want to provide an answer to, is to what extent translated texts differ from non-translated texts. Numerous corpus-based ...read more
Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
The MulAE-project evaluates whether monolingual testing practice can provide a complete picture of multilingual (ML) pupils’ abilities in content-related areas (e.g. science). In traditional tests, these pupils receive the test items ...read more
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional ...read more
This GOA-project aims to give new impetus to the current tendency in economic and social research to bring history to bear on contemporary questions of unequal welfare and growth. The ...read more
The Diversity in Education project considers the social inequalities in the Belgian educational system based on ethnicity, socio-economic background, disability and gender. In collaboration with KULeuven and ULB, the project ...read more
The now submerged Roman sanctuaries of Colijnsplaat and Domburg on the isle of Walcheren have yielded the most extensive collection of votive stones found in Northern Gaul. They bear testimony ...read more
Northwestern Europe experienced rapid and intense climate variations during late Quaternary times. These climate variations profoundly affected the environment, and the effects are well reflected in vegetational changes. Past vegetations are reconstructed ...read more