Several innovations in health care disrupt the traditional model of the doctor-patient relationship and exchange more specialized and qualitative medical care for more accessible or cheaper care. Examples include the much-discussed ...read more
The international scientific research network HiDo, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders, brings scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds together. HiDo consists of 14 research groups from Flanders (UGent, KULeuven, and ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
Like Instagram today, new print technology caused a revolutionary increase in the number of images in the early modern period. In that same era, art and technology became separated. Today, ...read more
This research focuses on the development of refugee posttrauma care in the field of transcultural psychology and applied theatre in western host societies. With respect to refugee posttrauma care, both ...read more
Het onderzoek heeft als doel meer inzicht te verkrijgen in het ontstaan, de evolutie en het belang (zowel vroeger als vandaag) van de collectie van architect Pierre-Jacques Goetghebuer (1788-1866), die ...read more
This project studies "La Movida Madrileña", a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975, from the perspective of linguistic change. The main objective is to estimate the ...read more
The material culture study of historic macro-lithic tools has been ignored for a long time. Traditionally, lithic studies have mainly been restricted to the investigation of pre- and proto-historic artefacts, ...read more
Studying the relationship between nature and human beings is one of the main propositions of Chinese philosophy. The garden is a material formation of the ideal landscape 山水, and the ...read more