When we talk about Belgium during the Second World War, the eighteen-day campaign almost always comes to mind. However, it is frequently overlooked that war had already been raging across ...read more
The project will investigate the nature and extent of (il)legal substance use among members of the Flemish Deaf Community. In doing so, we depart from a critical framework which hypothesizes that ...read more
The switching of languages among bilinguals at the clause level is well-documented in code-switching (CS) research. On the other hand, intra-word code-switching (IWCS) has only been sparsely attested in a ...read more
While academic vocabulary is a well-explored area in English, the same cannot be said for Spanish. Recognizing the need for exchange students in Social Sciences to master this vocabulary, we ...read more
This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
This doctoral project investigates the role of polysemy (the phenomenon where a word has multiple meanings) and word families (groups of words derived from the same root) in the process ...read more
Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Belgium, accounting for ca. 27.000 yearly deaths. Despite an abundance of medical research, the history of cancer (victims) is basically unwritten. ...read more
Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts ...read more
Crisis communication research has resulted in a set of evidence-based guidelines that describe how an organization should communicate with the public during a crisis. As such, organizations are recommended to ...read more
This project focuses on the Ghent art world of the 1980s, an understudied part of art history. During this period, there was a clear motive towards placing Belgian art on ...read more