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”.Kennismakers. be: Op Speeddate! Met Elias Kruithof
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.Call for Abstracts: Research Methods Workshop on Psychological, Social and Behavioral Approaches to Foreign Information Manipulation & Interference (FIMI) Studies
DE-CONSPIRATOR International Workshop on 3-4 June 2024, at VUB, Brussels.Sylvie Gadeyne on ultimate inequality of life and death (in Dutch)
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.Data Challenge: Rethinking Disaster Relief Strategies for Tomorrow
The deadline for submitting the project abstract is 29th of March, 2024.Elief Vandevenne's And Christophe Vanroelen's paper awarded with The Editor’s Choice of the 'Work' journal
The paper 'Measuring employment precariousness in gig jobs: A pilot study among food couriers in Brussels' is now free to read.New opinion piece on quality of work in the service voucher sector
Opinion piece by Christophe Vanroelen and Maarten Hermans in the newspaper De Morgen (in Dutch).European Social & Population Issues - Programme announced
The Programme of the BRISPO Lecture Series: European Social & Population Issues for 2024 has been just announced.Six evidence-based policy recommendations to regulate Airbnb and other short-term rentals
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.Christophe Vanroelen, Deborah De Moortel and Jens Doms about the importance of colleagues
Researchers from VUB talk in Visie about the importance of colleagues at work.New article on parental education, residential environment and educational outcomes
"Parental education and neighbourhood-effect heterogeneity in educational attainments of native and minority youth in Belgian metropolitan cities".‘De Burn-out Paradox’ reviewed by Wilmar Schaufeli
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": new publication by Lena Imeraj and Sylvie Gadeyne
Trapped in Place? Ethnic and Educational Heterogeneity in Residential Mobility and Integration of Young Adults in European Journal of Population...Press announcement about the EU-CoWork project
IDEWE and the VUB join forces to investigate how employers and employees can better support colleagues during difficult moments.Deadline for abstracts for the BAPH Symposium is on 16/02/2024
Submit your abstract to the Belgian Association for Public Health (BAPH) symposium: Tackling inequities in public health.Much more emancipation is needed
Tom Coninx's statement that emancipation goes too far makes it clear that much more emancipation is needed, writes Theun Pieter van Tienoven.New research on academic intimidation
Prof. Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe examined the problem among academics at Flemish universities.FWO-WEAVE project on climate change-related mortality
TEMPUR: ClimaTE change-related Mortality in different Population groups in URbanized Belgium...Welcome BRISPO
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.FWO research project on ethnic residential segregation
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).New doctoral research at BRISPO
Margot Verhulst was recently granted a FWO PhD Fellowship for fundamental research.
Events
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Lecture: Alex Wolf, Inequality at the household level from a European perspective
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Lecture: Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar, Exploring the Necessity and Challenges of Migration Data
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Lecture: Karin Nilsson, Management by algorithms: the fourth industrial revolution [online only]
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
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-
2024 Policy Event for Migration Scholars and Policy-makers
On March 21st, 2024, the EU Horizon 2020 HumMingBird Project will host a Policy Event, bringing together migration scholars, policy policymakers and practitioners from around Europe. - Practical info-
PhD public defense of Rebeka Balogh
The PhD thesis: “The Quality of Employment (Trajectories) and the Mental Health and Mortality of Women and Men. Evidence from Belgium and the UK.” - Practical info-
Lecture: Rémy Bonny, Scapegoating the LGBTQI+ community in international anti-democratic movements
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Lecture: Caterina Mauri, Loneliness and social connectedness in the European Union
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - Practical info-
Voorbij de valse tegenstelling: ras, klasse en solidariteit (in Dutch)
Keynote door Prof. Miriyam Aouragh (University of Westminster) Donderdag 18 april om 13u in lokaal I.2.02 - Practical info-
VVD Pierre-François Verhulst Prize Award Ceremony 2024
The thesis prize is awarded biennially by the Vereniging Voor Dmografie (VVD) and the Société Démographique Francophone de Belgique (SDFB) for a high-quality thesis within the domain of population studies. - Practical info-
2024 Workshop: Good Practices in the Implementation of Gender Equality Plans
As part of the TARGETED-MPI project, consortium partner ULANC will organize a workshop in April 2024 about good practices in the implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEP). - Practical info-
Lecture: Giselinde Kuipers, Beauty and Inequality. Charting new sociological territory
European Social and Population Issues Lecture Series - 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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