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The papers, authored by the members of the Interface Demography Research Unit, focus on social inequalities in cancer mortality and excess deaths during the first three waves.

The interview (in Dutch and French) focused on the challenges and assets of the New World of Work for quality of work and employment.

The article "The Labor of Distinction: Butlers, Service Work, and the Production of Elite Lifestyles" marks the first time doctoral research from a PhD candidate at a Flemish university is published in the ASR.

The publication is a part of the project SUSHY: Towards sustainable hybrid work: the study of hybrid work effects on well-being, productivity and environment, funded by BELSPO.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, KU Leuven, UGent en IDEWE nodigen organisaties uit om deel te nemen aan het VIONA-onderzoek: ‘Kwaliteit van het werk. Focus op het Vlaamse arbeidsmarktbeleid’.

The interview concerns Deborah's latest article titled "Psychological Capital and Social Class: A Capital Approach to Understanding Positive Psychological States and Their Role in Explaining Social Inequalities".

This new publication by Martiniello B. & Verhaeghe PP. investigates how local governments respond to discrimination, proposing a temporal framework of anti-discrimination policy useful to researchers and policymakers.

On 9 December, the eve of Human Rights Day, Dr Abuelaish attended the pre-release screening of I Shall Not Hate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

You can submit your application until December 18, 2024, COB.

The papers present the results of the INEQKILL project on the historical and contemporary patterns of mortality in Belgium.

This achievement will enable him to investigate the "class-race nexus" at the macro-level, analyzing how countries differ in the extent to which life opportunities are shaped by ethno-racial and socio-economic backgrounds.

Joachim Gotink and Sylvie Gadeyne, together with their co-authors, investigate if educational level impacts breast cancer incidence, mortality, and survival, and if so, how.

In this study, Elias Kruithof and Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe analyzed the evolution of social inequalities in tertiary educational attainment in Belgium from the post-World War II era to the early 2000s.

We invite students and alumni to participate in our survey on the quality of work among job students and recent graduates.

The book was edited by Sylke V. Schnepf, Béatrice d'Hombres, and Caterina Mauri who also co-authored four chapters.

The paper was published in the "European Journal of Public Health" Supplement dedicated to the 17th European Public Health Conference 2024.

A paper titled "A multi-indicator distributive justice approach to assess school-related green infrastructure benefits in Brussels" has been published in "Ecosystem Services".

This report was developed through a collaboration between researchers at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Paper by Rebeka Balogh, Sylvie Gadeyne, Christophe Vanroelen and Christopher Warhurst (IER) published in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health.

In their article, K. Dederichs and P.-P. Verhaeghe visualize how implicit racial bias at the collective level varies across European countries.

The article "Is it the Past or the Present? Employment Quality, Unemployment History, Psychological Distress and Mental Wellbeing in the United Kingdom" was published in "International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services".

Startdatum: Tussen 15 december 2024 en 1 februari 2025; Sollicitatiedeadline: 11 november 2024.

Work as a researcher for the EqualStrength Horizon project on cumulative discrimination; deadline for applications: 6/11/2024.

The article appreciated by the SAGE Prize for Innovation/Excellence jury is "The Extent of Résumé Whitening" published in 2023 in 'Sociological Research Online'.

PhD on Cross-national Differences in Structural Racism; deadline for application 15/11/2024.

This year 3 out of 7 PhD mandates in social sciences awarded to VUB went to BRISPO!

The thesis is titled "Balancing Acts: A Study on How Older Adults Experience the Digital Shift".

Lees hier het eindrapport van het EdisTools project.

The thesis is titled "Skills as Borders, Skills as Routes: Rethinking Migration Categories Through Lived Experience".

The special issue on comparing and explaining discrimination across different regions and settings is out now. In this issue, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe and others facilitated the dialogue between the different research traditions of studying discrimination.

The deadline for both onsite and online registration for TARGETED-MPI final conference has been extended until 11th October.

Summary of the training Prof. Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe delivered for Equinet - the European Network of Equality Bodies.

Fatıma Silpağar shares her impressions of the 3rd Annual workshop of IMISCOE Research Network's Standing Committee Methodological Approaches and Tools in Migration Research.

A paper on school withdrawal by Elias Kruithof and Gil Keppens has been just published in Educational Studies.

The position is related to the project of the Sciensano Health Indicator Unit and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, on Health Inequality Impact Assessment for tobacco prevention.

Last week the Belgian Hoge Raad voor de Justitie published the results of the 5th edition of the Justitiebarometer, which involved two BRISPO researchers: Maarten Hermans and Elias Herman Kruithof.

New study shows profound rates of ethnic and disability discrimination on the rental housing market of Leuven.

VUB Department of Sociology is looking for a PhD-student with a doctoral grant on migrant survey.

Dr. Francisca Mullens will be part of the Works Council and Prof. Christophe Vanroelen was elected as an effective member of the CPBW.

The article 'Machine Discriminating: Automated Speech Recognition Biases in Refugee Interviews' by Tuba Bircan and Duha Ceylan in the 'Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies'.

Prof. Sylvie Gadeyne in Radio 1 on the recipe for a long and healthy life.

For those who move from Belgium to Australia facing a completely different education system might be a shock.

The Research Group Electronics and Informatics: Research – Development - Innovation is looking for a PhD-student with a doctoral grant.

The project "Self-employment variety and health consequences: A comprehensive study of career trajectories and household dynamics".

The findings from the research illustrate the importance of good employment conditions for the mental health of domestic cleaners. The quality of employment conditions largely depends on the service voucher offices.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

Social security does not harm interpersonal solidarity, in contrast to what critics claim, writes Maarten Hermans in De Standaard (in Dutch).

Vacancy in the FWO project 'Segregation through Life and Space' (SeLiS).

Exploring the financial ramifications of discrimination across various societal sectors through an OECD-funded systematic literature review.

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”.

Onze onderzoeker Elias Kruithof kreeg de kans om zijn onderzoek toe te lichten in de nieuwste editie van Kennismakers.be, het magazine van het Fond voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek.

DE-CONSPIRATOR International Workshop on 3-4 June 2024, at VUB, Brussels.

We are not equal in our lives and in death and inequality is becoming more deadly in Belgium. We see really big differences in life expectancy.

The deadline for submitting the project abstract is 29th of March, 2024.

The paper 'Measuring employment precariousness in gig jobs: A pilot study among food couriers in Brussels' is now free to read.

Opinion piece by Christophe Vanroelen and Maarten Hermans in the newspaper De Morgen (in Dutch).

The Programme of the BRISPO Lecture Series: European Social & Population Issues for 2024 has been just announced.

Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms could have detrimental effects for local housing markets. By reviewing policy-evaluation studies from abroad, we present evidence-based recommendations to tackle the problem.

Researchers from VUB talk in Visie about the importance of colleagues at work.

"Parental education and neighbourhood-effect heterogeneity in educational attainments of native and minority youth in Belgian metropolitan cities".

The book based on fellow Mattias M. Van Hulle’s PhD is reviewed in the Journal of the Dutch Institute for Psychologists.

Trapped in Place? Ethnic and Educational Heterogeneity in Residential Mobility and Integration of Young Adults in European Journal of Population...

IDEWE and the VUB join forces to investigate how employers and employees can better support colleagues during difficult moments.

Submit your abstract to the Belgian Association for Public Health (BAPH) symposium: Tackling inequities in public health.

Tom Coninx's statement that emancipation goes too far makes it clear that much more emancipation is needed, writes Theun Pieter van Tienoven.

Prof. Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe examined the problem among academics at Flemish universities.

TEMPUR: ClimaTE change-related Mortality in different Population groups in URbanized Belgium...

We are pleased to announce that, commencing on January 1, 2024, three research groups at VUB, Interface Demography, TOR, and Qualitative Research in Action, merged to establish the new research group, BRISPO - Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies.

Segregation through Space and Life: Ethnic residential segregation from a longitudinal life course, intersectional and experience-based perspective,  a junior research project for fundamental research (G087224N), has been successfully granted by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO).

Margot Verhulst was recently granted a FWO PhD Fellowship for fundamental research.