Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Chloé Lybaert, Sofie Decock
Researchers: Alieke Broidioi
Department: Department of Translation Interpreting and Communication
Faculties: Faculty Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025-2029
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Towards more linguistic justice: Accent bias against Dutch-speaking teachers and students in Flemish higher education
Promotors: Chloé Lybaert, Sarah Van Hoof
Researchers: Mira Wyns
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Language Tests for Migration and Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Evidential and Consequential Validity
Promotors: Bart Deygers, Benjamin Kremmel
Researchers: Laura Schildt
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025-2029
Themes: Global migration and mobility, Histories of migration and migration policy, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Citizenship and the past: historical culture in Flemish and Dutch Social Orientation courses for newcomers.
Promotors: Berber Bevernage
Researchers: Anthe Baele
Faculties: Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte
Period: 2023-2027
Themes: Education and training, Histories of migration and migration policy, Identity, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Children’s rights and child-friendly justice in the appellate asylum procedure at the Council for Alien Law Litigation: an ethnographic and cocreative study
Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Sara Lembrechts
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Children, youth and families, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Interdialectal accommodation in Arabic: a linguistic ethnography of public service interpreting in Brussels.
Promotors: Katrijn Maryns ; Jürgen Jaspers
Researchers: Juliette Michaud
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025 – 2029
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Navigating the gendered geopolitics of the EU’s Temporary Protection: the complex return trajectories of Ukrainian women between Belgium and Ukraine
Promotors: Ine Lietaert, Robin Vandevoordt
Researchers: Hannah Grondelaers
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Promotors: Ruben Vanderlinde, Noel Clycq
Researchers: Brent Theys
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Education and training
Promotors: Reinhilde Pulinx, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Wendelien Vantieghem, Iris Roose
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2015 – 2016
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Identity
Promotors: Bart Deygers
Researchers: Marieke Vanbuel
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2024
Themes: Education and training
Developing an EU web-portal for video-remote public service interpreting for third-country nationals (EU-WEBPSI)
Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, July De Wilde
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Promotors: Christopher Parker
Researchers: Wai Chu Starry Chung
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Global migration and mobility, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Promotors: Evelien D'haeseleer, Kristiane Van Lierde, Ellen Simon
Researchers: Julie Daelman
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2017 – 2024
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen, Charlotte Scheerens, Ine Lietaert, Ilse Derluyn, Glenn Rayp, Sorana Toma
Researchers: Ilse Ruyssen, Charlotte Scheerens, Els Bekaert, Alix Debray, Ine Lietaert
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Promotors: July De Wilde, Claudio Scarvaglieri
Researchers: Peter Muntigl
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Sara Delva
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2026
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Promotors: Elisabeth De Schauwer
Researchers: Yasmine Kaied
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2028
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
Promotors: Chloé Lybaert, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
Researchers: Pauline Verhelst
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Marlies Casier
Researchers: Liselot Casteleyn
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Identity, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Promotors: July De Wilde, Katrijn Maryns, Lieve Macken, Arda Tezcan
Researchers: Ella van Hest, Michaël Lumingu
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Refugee camps and asylum centres
The labour market disadvantages of citizens with a migration background: from measuring to explaining and remedying
Promotors: Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens
Researchers: Louise Devos
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Family reunification of Turkish migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands: a comparative study of legal consciousness in light of evolving policies
Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Ayse Güdük
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2018 – 2023
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Promotors: Bart Deygers, Marieke Vanbuel
Researchers: Emma Maes
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Education and training
Lawyering between counselling and adjudication: a sociolinguistic ethnography of the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium
Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Marie Jacobs
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2025
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Promotors: Bart Deygers
Researchers: Laura Schildt
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Education and training, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Geertrui Daem
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities
Promotors: Bart Deygers, Ellen Simon
Researchers: Shauny Seynhaeve
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Education and training
A functional-contextual appraisal of professional interpreting: entextualisation in multi-phased institutional procedures
Promotors: Mieke Vandenbroucke, Bart Defrancq
Researchers: Sari Goukens
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2026
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Promotors: Christophe Verbruggen, Margo De Koster
Researchers: Maïté Van Vyve
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Crime and criminalization, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Iris Vandevelde, Sofie Beunen, Eva Dierickx
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2019 – 2035
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Housing, home-making and urban mobilities, Identity
Challenging queer migration narratives. A case study of sexual orienation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in the Belgian asylum procedure.
Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Marlies Casier
Researchers: Liselot Casteleyn
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Language and guardianship: A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors
Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, Ilse Derluyn, Floor Verhaeghe
Researchers: Lotte Remue
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Resisting Departheid in Eastern EUrope: grasssroots engagement withillegalised migrants in Lithuania
Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Lesley Hustinx
Researchers: Julija Kekstaite
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Language, care and protection: A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual needs and challenges in the care trajectory of unaccompanied minors
Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Lotte Remue
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families
Promotors: Eva Derous, Donatienne Desmette, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Researchers: Eva Derous, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Donatienne Desmette, Aylin Kocack, Bert Leysen
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2023 – 2024
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Work
Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen
Researchers: Flor Vandevelde
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Global migration and mobility
Families on the Move. A follow-along ethnography of families’ trajectories in the asylum regime in Belgium
Promotors: Karel Arnaut, Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Elsemieke van Osch
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2024
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Children, youth and families, Participation, integration and transnational relations, Refugee camps and asylum centres
Access to education, employment and housing for beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection in Belgium: an analysis from a non-discrimination perspective
Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Robin Vandevoordt, Milena Belloni
Researchers: Roos-Marie van den Bogaard
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Classroom Justice in ethnic diverse classrooms: The perspective of ethnic cultural minorities across generations
Promotors: Bart Van de Putte, Alain Van Hiel
Researchers: Fien Geenen
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
Facework and multimodality. A comparative study of on-site interpreting and video-remote interpreting.
Promotors: July De Wilde, Jelena Vranjes
Researchers: Dries Cavents
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Communication, media and discourse
Promotors: Bart Defrancq, Antoinette Verhage, Mieke Vandenbroucke
Researchers: Sofie Verliefde, Helena Snoeck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2026
Themes: Communication, media and discourse
MOBILISE: Determinants of ‘Mobilisation’ at Home & Abroad: Analysing the Micro-Foundations of Out-Migration & Mass Protest
Promotors: Toma Sorana, Onuch Olga, Sasse Gwendolyn
Researchers: Toma Sorana
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Histories of migration and migration policy
Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem
Researchers: Jente De Coninck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Identity
On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor
Promotors: Renata Enghels, Geert Jacobs
Researchers: Laurence De Backer
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Communication, media and discourse
FAMIMOVE – FAMIlies on the MOVE: The coordination between international family law and migration law
Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Leontine Bruijnen
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2023 – 2024
Themes: Children, youth and families, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Promotors: Alexandra Sanchez, July De Wilde
Researchers: Elisa Robbe
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Communication, media and discourse, Identity, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality