Drawing on a transdisciplinary partnership between communication sciences, sociolinguistics, medical science and sociology, Health, Media & Society looks at how the news media cover elderly-related health issues. Applying a holistic ...read more
The wider Lower Congo region in Central Africa is home to the Kikongo language cluster (KLC), a vast cluster of regiolects spoken in four neighbouring countries: Angola including Cabinda, the ...read more
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Iran has been engaged in shaping its cultural identity and negotiating its position in the international cultural context. Notwithstanding its rather ...read more
Choreographies of Precariousness focuses on contemporary dancers' socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes. Within this frame will be discussed to what extent one may speak of precariousness ...read more
This project focusses on the grammatical variation found in Peninsular Spanish in a series of spatial adverbial constructions that are followed by a noun phrase, such as encima (de) ‘on top of’, al ...read more
As previous studies have shown, in order to overcome the language barriers and enable the communication between general practitioners and migrant patients, the employment of professional community interpreters in the ...read more
The prospection and evaluation of former battlefields of the Great War or the First World War (WW I) poses specific challenges. For several reasons, large-scale excavation campaigns of this conflict ...read more
This PhD project, based at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Program for Slavic and East European Studies at Ghent University, examines the Kosova students’ movements between 1968 and 1999. ...read more
Transbaso, an inter-university SBO research project, is an innovative valorization and research project for the Flemish education context. That school and study orientation processes are socially biased is well documented. ...read more
The Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies is launched as one of the five SHGW (social and behavioral sciences and humanities) research consortia at Ghent University. It operates within the larger ...read more