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Research projects (1100 - 1120 of 6686) Search filter: Classifications: SOCIAL SCIENCES (S)
Constructing the moral and political (ir)responsibilities towards Syrian and Afghan refugees. A sociological discourse analysis on how Belgian media, the public, civil society and policy have responded to refugee demands. University of Antwerp Abstract: This research project examines the social construction of moral and political responsibilities towards refugees. It thereby focusses on how different social actors, such as refugee organisations, policy makers and the media, compete with one another in defining and evaluating the claims of refugees. Organisations: • Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
Researchers: • Christiane Timmerman • Gert Verschraegen • Robin Vandevoordt
Construction and actualisation of a database 'household dwellings'. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Starting from the results of the 2001 Belgian socio-economic survey (census), a relevant, consistent and up-to-date database 'household dwellings' is designed, to be implemented at Statistics Belgium (N.I.S.), including practical assistance during the implementation phase. In the first stage alternative data-sources (administrative registers, surveys,...) containing relevant information are tracked down. Next, problems in using these alternative sources are investigated. Consequently a quality and feasability study is undertaken. Finally, in close cooperation with Statistics Belgium, the final database is conceptualised. Organisations: • Sociology • Social Research
Researchers: • RONNY LESTHAEGHE • Jan VAN BAVEL • JOHAN SURKYN • PATRICK DEBOOSERE
Construction and actualisation of the database "Diploma and level of education of the Belgian population". University of Antwerp Abstract: The Belgian Federal government decided to organise a last census in 2001 (the Social Economic Survey). This project looks at the possibilities to update the 2001 census data on level of education with data from the Flemish government. Organisations: • Culture and welfare • Culture and welfare
Researchers: • Dimitry Mortelmans • Koen Pelleriaux • Luc Goossens • Cornelius Van den Bosch
Construction of a "Bell-20 index" for all stock quoted shares on the Brussel Stock Exchange during the period 1832-2005. Comparison with the returns on the Belgian Banking sector, the risk free rate and the all share index and other portfolios. University of Antwerp Abstract: The project has practical objectives and aims at calculating a "BEL-20 index" (capital gain as well as total return index) for the period 1832-2005 for the Brussels Stock Exchange. These indices will be compared with returns calculated for the risk free rate, for the banking sector, for the all share index and other portfolios of the Brussels Stock Exchange for the same period. By doing so a brand new benchmark will be available for a long historical period. Organisations: • Internationale economics, International Management and Diplomacy
Researchers: • Ludo Cuyvers • Jan Annaert • Jan Paredaens • Greta Devos • Marc De Ceuster • Marc Deloof • Wilhelmina De Smedt
Construction of a database containing statistical information on social inclusion. University of Antwerp Abstract: Construction of a database containing statistical information on social inclusion. Organisations: • CENTRE FOR SOCIAL POLICY • Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Researchers: • Bea Cantillon
Construction of Russian and European identities in glasnost and post-Soviet Russian feature films (1985-2005). University of Antwerp Abstract: Before 1992 Russia did not exist as a country. The search for a Russian identity, however, did already take place in `Soviet Russia'. Cinema in the Soviet Union was not pertinent for defining a Russian national identity because it was abused to further the socialist cause (the creation of a Soviet identity). Therefore, it was only since the increasing demystification of the Soviet ideal, of communism, during glasnost that the national quest became apparent in cinema. In the end, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and simultaneously the all-powerful ideology,
filmmakers could express their ideas of national self-awareness in openness. In this PhD I want to examine if and how Russian feature films are used to interrogate, to express or to construct national and regional identities and this throughout two decades (1985-2005) with the fall of the Soviet empire as turning point. Besides national identities, I want to pay in particular attention to regional, i.e. European identities, due to Russia's schizophrenic status as a European/non-European country. I will translate the abstract notion of identity into a set of concrete parameters, such as self-other relations, which are then observable in films. Additionally, I will look at the conditions of film productions, the filmmakers' self-representation in interviews and literature along with their and their films' reception in (Soviet) Russian society (spectators, critics) and international responses. Organisations: • Mass communication • Media, policy and culture
Researchers: • Hildegarde Van den Bulck • Jasmijn Van Gorp
Construction of time series on employment, income distribution, socio demographic profile, consumption, social spending and funding in selected European countries University of Antwerp Abstract: Construction of time series on employment, income distribution, socio demographic profile, consumption, social spending and funding in selected European countries Organisations: • Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Researchers: • Ive Marx
Consultancy assignment concerning training session in June 2011 for officials of the EU on "development and Human rights" University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand EIUC. UA provides EIUC research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Law and Development
Researchers: • Wouter Vandenhole
Consultancy Services to IPIS. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal service agreement between UA and on the other hand IPIS. UA provides IPIS research results as stipulated in the present document. Organisations: • Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa
Researchers: • Robrecht Renard • Sara Geenen
Consultatie van andere artsen bij euthanasieverzoeken en andere beslissingen aan het levenseinde van patiënten. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This research proposal is a request for funding of a 4th PhD-student year for Yanna Van Wesemael. The latter is making her PhDdissertation within the framework of the IWT project 'Monitoring the quality of end-of-life care in Flanders' (IWT323). as Yanna was only employed on the project from the start of the second project year (replacement of Kathleen Van Hulle), only three years of her PhD trajectory can be financed within this IWT project. With this proposal we therefore ask for funding for the staff costs of one year as a PhD-student, inorder to complete the planned articles and the dissertation. An important part of the data collection of the study has already been conducted or is currently being conducted: 1) Mail Survey on the activities of all LEIFphysicians (N=132) (i.e. physicians offering consult to treating physicians on eg euthanasia). A part of the results of this survey was incorporated into an article submitted to an international journal; two other articles based on this data collection are in preparation. 2) March 2009 will be the start of a large-scale mail survey in 3000 Belgian physicians about their attitudes and experiences regarding euthanasia requests, end-of-life decisions, and the consultation of colleague physicians in authanasia. All preparations, including a positive advice of the ethical committee of the University Hospital, for this study have been made and the data are expected to be ready for analysis in autumn 2009. Since the data will already have been collected, only staff costs are requested for the 4th PhD-student year in order to complete the articles and the dissertation. Organisations: • Medical Sociology
Researchers: • LUC DELIENS
Consultations on draft regulation. An inventory of the Dutch consultation practice. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project will assess the quality and quantity of the Dutch consultation practice regarding regulatory drafts. It will look at: - the position of consultations in the lax making process: the development of a process of quality management - the functions of consultations in an ideal law making process Organisations: • Government and Law
Researchers: • Patricia Popelier
Consumer information labels under WTO law: less favorable treatment, unnecessary trade restrictions or consistent with the tekst and spirit of WTO law? University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand Erasmus Mundus. UA provides Erasmus Mundus research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations:
• Government and Law
Researchers: • Alexia Herwig
Consumer insights in het gebruik van sociale media door Belgische jongeren University College Ghent Abstract: Sociale media zijn een nieuwe, aanvullende vorm van marketingcommunicatiemedia. De sociale media zoals Web 2.0 sites, blogs op internet, iDTV, mobiele communicatie, advergaming,...zijn internetgerelateerde tools die het een consument niet alleen mogelijk maken om zelf op zoek te gaan naar informatie omtrent een product/dienst maar ook om zelf contact te realiseren met de bedrijven/adverteerders. Daarenboven stellen deze nieuwe media de consument ook in staat om eigen informatie, percepties en opinies te verspreiden onder medeconsumenten. De consument wordt, in vergelijking met het klassieke advertising model waarin hij een passieve rol speelde (zender adverteerder, ontvanger consument), een actieve speler in een nieuw model: hij stuurt de merkboodschap bijvoorbeeld aan via 'user generated content' (verwijst naar media inhoud die geproduceerd wordt door de eindgebruiker) of via 'Word of Mouse' (een evolutie van 'word of mouth' naar 'word of Mouse', waarbij de verspreiding van de boodschap niet meer face-to-face gebeurt maar via een digitale intermediair). Hij kan via de virale (digitale) weg duizenden andere consumenten benaderen met positieve of negatieve boodschappen. De adverteerder zal zijn sturende rol moeten bijschaven en zich in de communicatie, uitgedaagd door de consument, anders moeten gedragen, rekening houdend met de gewijzigde communicatiemogelijkheden- van de consument. Zowel vanuit de academische als vanuit de bedrijfswereld is er echter nood aan diepgaande inzichten in waarom en wanneer de consument als actieve ontwikkelaar of verspreider van commerciële boodschappen gaat optreden. Vroeger onderzoek wees reeds uit wat het socio-demografisch profiel is van internetgebruikers, hoe consumenten hun tijd verdelen over media (Ferris, 2007) en wat bijvoorbeeld de motieven zijn van consumenten om gebruik te maken van het internet (Rodgers & Sheldon, 1999). Consumenten gaan via internet informatie zoeken, communiceren, ontspannen en shoppen. De dieperliggende kennis van waarom de gebruiker/consument al dan niet gebruik maakt van sociale media en dus participeert in de commerciële boodschap ontbreekt nog. (Johnson, Bruner & Kumar, 2008). De doelstelling van dit project is het beantwoorden van volgende onderzoeksvragen : 1. wat zijn de motivaties van Belgische jongeren (16-34 jarigen) om actief commerciële boodschappen aan te sturen in sociale media, en 2. in welke mate modereren deze motivaties het effect van merkkenmerken (zoals merkpersoonlijkheid) en boodschapelementen (zoals het type creatieve appeal dat gebruikt wordt) op het al dan niet vertonen van dit actieve aansturingsgedrag van Belgische jongeren. In de verschillende onderzoeksfasen zal de motivatie van de jonge consument op kwalitatieve en kwantitatieve manier bestudeerd en bevraagd worden. Het einddoel bestaat erin een gefundeerd advies te kunnen formuleren aangaande de meest aangewezen manier om de interactieve consument van morgen efficiënt te benaderen en te bereiken. Het PWO-project “Consumer insights in het gebruik van sociale media door Belgische jongeren” heeft twee centrale vragen. o De eerste centrale vraag is ‘Wat zijn de motivaties van Belgische jongeren (16-34 jarigen) om actief commerciële boodschappen aan te sturen in sociale media?’. o De tweede centrale vraag is ‘In welke mate beïnvloeden merkkenmerken (zoals merkpersoonlijkheid) en boodschapelementen (zoals het type creatieve appeal) het aansturinggedrag van Belgische jongeren en is deze relatie afhankelijk van de oorspronkelijke motivatie?’ Om deze centrale vragen te kunnen beantwoorden is een antwoord nodig op de volgende onderzoeksvragen: o Welke sociale media worden door Belgische jongeren gebruikt om actief commerciële boodschappen aan te sturen? (OV1) o Wat zijn de motivaties van Belgische jongeren om gebruik te maken van sociale media om informatie met betrekking tot producten of diensten te creëren of te verspreiden? (OV2) o Link tussen het waarom en soort product of dienst en soort informatie / boodschap en wijze van actief gebruik? (OV3) De eerste fase van het onderzoeksproject was een oriënterende, afbakenende en conceptuele fase. De literatuurstudie heeft zich geconcentreerd op de eerste twee onderzoeksvragen. De tweede fase van het project – kwalitatief onderzoek bij de consument – liet toe om de verworven informatie uit de eerste fase af te toetsen, te verfijnen en uit te zuiveren. De kwalitatieve onderzoeksfase probeerde vooral een antwoord te formuleren op de eerste twee onderzoeksvragen. De tweede onderzoeksvraag, de motivaties, kwam uitgebreid aan bod. Door de motivaties te onderzoeken, werd een beter beeld verkregen van wat de gebruikers drijft om het gedrag te stellen waar dit onderzoeksdomein zich op richt. In de gesprekken is ook gepolst naar relevante elementen met betrekking tot de derde onderzoeksvraag. Naast een indicatie van de motivaties die bij de meeste respondenten aanwezig waren, kwam het kwalitatief onderzoek tot drie conclusies: 1.Bepaalde motivaties kunnen onvoldoende teruggekoppeld worden naar de beschikbare theorieën. We vonden vijf nieuwe motivaties die (voorlopig) niet te herleiden zijn naar de reeds gedocumenteerde motivaties: profilering, google traffic, reciprociteit of bijdragen tot de community, drang naar content, problemen signaleren aan bedrijven en tenslotte provoceren en choqueren. 2.Bepaalde motivaties komen heel vaak samen voor, of juist niet. 3.Er zijn verschillende variaties binnen éénzelfde motivatie, we kunnen ons nu een meer genuanceerd beeld vormen van iedere bestaande motivatie. Een voorbeeld hiervan is de motivatie ‘product involvement’ waar ook sprake is van ‘brand involvement’. De derde fase is een kwantitatieve onderzoeksfase en is opgebouwd uit drie luiken: een inhoudsanalyse, een enquête en een experiment. Deze derde fase moet ook een afdoende antwoord geven op de derde onderzoeksvraag. Als resultaat van de derde fase verwachten we kwantitatieve gegevens om de motivaties bij jongeren te onderbouwen en de boodschapelementen van commerciële boodschappen te linken aan de mogelijke motivaties. Het einddoel bestaat erin een gefundeerd advies te kunnen formuleren aangaande de meest aangewezen manier om de interactieve consument van morgen efficiënt te benaderen en te bereiken. Organisations: • Faculty of Applied Business • Faculty of Business Administration and Public Administration • Department of Marketing
• Department of Marketing
Researchers: • Claire Maréchal • Iris Vermeir • Brigitte Neetens • Linda Engels
Consumer protection during the currency of a credit agreement. KU Leuven Abstract: The research project analysed the different methods of consumer protection vis-à-vis consumer credit agreements. Nowadays the emphasis is on the information paradigm, according to which the well informed and circumspect consumer can make free and rational decisions if and to the extent he is given full, correct and understandable information. The first part of the project gives an overview of (i) the foundations of respectively EU and Belgian Contractand Consumer law and (ii) critically examines the information paradigm in the field of consumer credit regulation, as it is currently the EU's and most national legislators' preferred consumer protectionmethod.Part two and three look into the legal grounds, risks and advantages of a right to alter credit agreements unilaterally or by mutual agreement, the right of early repayment, etc. These risks andadvantages are weighed in normal situations as well as in a situation of financial distress of one of the contracting parties due to unforese Organisations: • Faculty of Law, Campus Kulak Kortrijk
Researchers: • Evelyne Terryn • Johan Vannerom
Consumer reactions to different branding strategies in an interactive context University of Antwerp Abstract: This project researches effects of interactivity on marketing communication for different brand strategies to find out how interactivity influences consumer reactions to new products. In two studies, we oppose new brands versus extensions of familiar brands and small versus broad brands. It is expected that interactivity will engender different communication effects for different brand strategies, in function of cognitive capacity. Organisations: • Marketing
Researchers: • Nathalie Dens
Consumers' attitude and behaviour toward food safety in China Ghent University Abstract: This doctoral research is to investigate Chinese consumers? decision-making process towards safe food, risk perception of food-related hazards and trust in information sources, information influence on consumer behavior and consumers? knowledge about food nutrition and food nutrition label. It is a unique study that provides a comprehensive understanding about Chinese consumers? attitude and behaviour toward food safety. This study will allow the formulation of policy implications for the development of food risk communication, food market strategy and public health education in China. Organisations: • Departement of Agricultural economics
Researchers: • Wim Verbeke
Consumption of medicines in Belgian Nursing homes for the elderly Ghent University Abstract: In this study the association will be analysed between institutional characteristics of nursing homes in Belgium and the quality of prescribing. In a field study in 3 Belgian countries, 20 nursing homes will be described through structured interviews with management and nursing staff. In each institution 30 residents will be described with administrative data, medication charts and supplementary clinical data. Organisations: • Department of Pharmacology
Researchers: • Robert Vander Stichele
Containg Contagion: a Network Approach to Systemic Risk in Banking Ghent University Abstract: We analyze the behavior of the banking sector with respect to systemic risk. We focus on the effects of the financial crisis and the development and implementation of new regulation. Our research will apply concepts from network theory as it enables us to account for the structural changes within the banking sector. Organisations: • Department of Financial economics
Researchers: • Rudi Vander Vennet
Containment or contamination? The influence of federalisation on the etno-political discourse of political parties and elites. The case of Belgium (19682007) University of Antwerp Abstract: This project aims to provide insight into the role that federalisation processes play in the moderation or radicalisation of the ethno-political discourse of political parties and elites in Belgium. This is achieved through diachronic analysis of this ethno-political discourse applying qualitative content analysis techniques to party political election manifestos and televised election debates between 1968 and 2007. Attention will be paid to (evolutions in) official positions as well as to explicit and implicit elements of (sub-)national identity construction. Organisations: • Faculty Research PSW • Extremism and democracy
Researchers: • Caspar Mudde
Contemplative monasteries in the 21st century. An ethnographic study of present-day contemplative community life KU Leuven Abstract: Contemplative monasteries in the 21st century. An ethnographic study ofpresent-day contemplative community life. The religious landscape of present-day Western-European society is characterized on the one hand by a high level of secularisation and on the other by an increased religious plurality (Berger, 2000). The values intrinsic to a religiously oriented life in community are often diametrically opposed to the dominant Western-European thinking patterns like individualism, utilitarianism and scientism. It is in this context not self-evident to consciously choose monastic life and it is moreover difficult to remain committed as a monk or a nun to a life characterised by a quasi-linear continuity and by exceptional obligations and limitations (Merkle, 1992:13). The aim of this ethnographic study is to describe the physical and social environment of a specific contemplative Trappist community, in this case the Abbey of Sint-Sixtus in Westvleteren (Belgium), and hence to contribute to t Organisations: • OG_vr_recht
Researchers: • Marie-Claire Foblets • Lieven Vandekerckhove • Stephan Parmentier • Wim Vandewiele
