The Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (BRISPO) is an interdisciplinary research centre composed of sociologists, demographers, economists, psychologists, statisticians, and human geographers. Its members conduct research on the socioeconomic, cultural, and demographic dimensions of patterns of social inequality within Belgium, Europe, and beyond.
Recent news
Volunteer Position: Research Internship on Disinformation and Foreign Interference
We are offering a volunteer Research Internship based at the AIMS Lab: AI, Migration and Society Research Unit of BRISPO, to join the EU-funded project, “De-Conspirator: Detecting and Countering Information Suppression Framework”.Rebeka Balogh with the first EUROPIA VUB doctorate
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel has its first EUTOPIA PhD. BRISPO researcher Rebeka Balogh obtained her PhD from the VUB and the British University of Warwick.More creativity and fewer burnouts: why good colleagues are important for our mental well-being
Deborah De Moortel talks to Knack Weekend about the importance of colleagues at work for mental health and the role of employers and supervisors for improving social relations at work.SEAD Concluding Symposium: Digitalisation and the world of work // 6.05.2024
On Monday the 6th of May 2024 in the afternoon, the SEAD consortium organises a concluding symposium as the culmination of four years of research on digitalisation in the Belgian labour market and the associated opportunities and threats for sustainable work.New opinion piece on solidarity and social security
Social security does not harm interpersonal solidarity, in contrast to what critics claim, writes Maarten Hermans in De Standaard (in Dutch).VACANCY: full-time PhD position
Vacancy in the FWO project 'Segregation through Life and Space' (SeLiS).The Costs of Discrimination
Exploring the financial ramifications of discrimination across various societal sectors through an OECD-funded systematic literature review.New opinion piece on distrust in justice and class inequality (in Dutch)
Samen met Maarten Hermans, opiniestuk in De Standaard van 06/03/2024: Het wantrouwen in justitie is een breed gedeeld gevoel. “We leven sterk in sociale bubbels”.
Upcoming events
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De-Conspirator research methods workshop: Call for abstracts deadline
Workshop: Psychological, Social and Behavioral Approaches to Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) Studies | Deadline: 30/04/2024 - Practical info-
Lecture: Marco Colagrossi, The transmissions of inequalities across generations
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
SEAD Concluding Symposium: Digitalisation and the world of work
The culmination of four years of research on digitalisation in the Belgian labour market and the associated opportunities and threats for sustainable work. - Practical info-
Lecture: Gruia Badescu, Revisiting cosmopolitanism in contemporary Europe
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Lecture: Raquel Rolnik, The risk of risks: dispossessions and the right to the city [online only]
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Lecture: Abram De Swaan, The Mentality of Mass Murder
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series
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