News & Events

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.