Tackling loneliness: how small things make a big difference
A baker, a butcher, and a cup of coffee with the neighbors: that was all it took to pull Marlène out of her loneliness. Researcher Lise Switsers discovered how a weekly market is bringing an entire village back together. Small changes with a big impact.
Society
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Healthy behaviour among pupils? Let them do it themselves.
Young people know what’s healthy, but do they actually do it? Veerle Van Raemdonck has them examine their own habits and come up with their own solutions. Because healthy behavior only really begins when young people take the initiative themselves.
Odisee
Ready for life after prison?
Imagine this: a man called Tom is due to be released from prison tomorrow, but without an income, internet access or a place to live, it’s not easy to start afresh. Liesbeth Naessens (Odisee) investigates how halfway houses help people leaving prison to build a new life, step by step.
Hogeschool VIVES
How realistic training ensures safer care for children
Meet Simon. He cries, breathes and even has a heartbeat, but he is … a high-tech simulation manikin. Researcher Birgit Vincke, together with a team of experts, has developed a realistic simulation training programme for doctors and nurses: in their own hospital, with their own team and equipment. It’s OK to make mistakes, because with the Simon simulation manikin, no real patient is at risk.
Thomas More Hogeschool
Would you add worms to your skincare routine?
Isabelle Noyens tries out a new skincare product and is instantly won over. One small detail: the oil comes from… mealworms. They’re packed with healthy fatty acids that moisturise and nourish your skin, and offer a local and sustainable alternative to the petroleum-based mineral oils found in many creams. Isabelle explains how it all works!
FWO
VUB
Spotting gaps in centuries-old texts using… maths
Imagine a centuries-old university library. Damp air, insects, and books full of tiny holes caused by the ravages of time. It sounds harmless, but for text recognition software it’s a disaster: a tiny hole in the word ‘book’ and suddenly the computer reads ‘oboek’. Fortunately, there’s… maths! Quinten Van Boxstael explains how he uses wavelets – a sort of mathematical microscope – to detect those holes in advance, so that we can digitise books quickly and accurately.
UGent
Through the teachers’ eyes: inequity in early childhood education
5 seconds vs 10 minutes... That's the gap in teacher attention between two 3-year-old children in the same classroom during story time, and it's not random. In his PhD Thibaut Duthois (Ghent University) set out to find out why. Turns out the quietest kids, often the ones who need support most, get overlooked. To help fix this, Thibaut and his colleagues developed and tested a training program for teachers that actually closes the gap.
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