Who we are
UGent @ Work unites 24 professors from 6 UGent faculties and 10 UGent departments who conduct research on work and the labour market.
Stijn Baert
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Bio: The research of Stijn Baert is mainly situated in the broad field of labour economics. His specific research interests are the transition from school to work, labour market discrimination, and work and health. Methodologically, he is an expert in setting up field experiments.
Piet Bracke
Bio: Piet Bracke conducts mainly socio-demographic and health sociological research. His current research interests are educational and health inequality, reproductive health, mental health, and the organisation of mental health care and formal health use and/or medical consumption. Methodologically, he is an expert in cross-national, comparative research.
Filip De Fruyt
Bio: Filip De Fruyt develops methods to measure differences between people (personality, interests, aspects of cognitive functioning, ...). He also examines how these differences develop during life and the professional career. Additionally, he examines and advises organisations and governments on employability and skills for the 21st century and how these can feature and be developed in education and at work.
Lutgart Braeckman
Bio: Lutgart Braeckman mainly conducts research on health at the workplace. Her research interests are occupational diseases and work accidents, job stress, burn-out, depression, and re-integration on the labour market after labour market drop-out. Methodologically, she is an expert in survey research.
Sarah Van Hoof
Bio: The research of Sarah Van Hoof is situated mainly in sociolinguistics. Her research interests are the role of language in the employment of foreign speaking newcomers and attitudes towards language variation in professional contexts and 'gatekeeping' contexts such as job interviews. This way she tries to identify accent bias and discrimination based on language.
Patrick Humblet
Bio: Patrick Humblet conducts research in labour law. His research interests are collective labour law, strike law, social dialogue, and social elections.
Lieven Annemans
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Bio: The research of Lieven Annemans is mainly situated in the broad field of health economics. His research interests are life quality and the cost efficiency and the management of health care. His methodological expertise consists of meta-analyses and randomised controlled trials (field experiments).
Els Clays
Bio: Els Clays mainly conducts research on the impact of the work environment on health and wellbeing of employees. Her specific research interests are psychosocial risks and physical workload and how both are linked to sustainable employment. Methodologically, in both observational and interventional research she uses survey instruments and objective measurements through motion indicators, physiological monitoring devices, and smartphone sensors.
Wouter Duyck
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Bio: The research of Wouter Duyck is situated mainly in cognitive psychology. His research interests are psycholinguistics and bilingualism, language development, dyslexia, aphasia, education, and orientation and selection tests for higher education. Methodologically, he is an expert in experimental software and devices, computational modelling, and eyetracking in applied research such as job interviews.
Greet Van Hoye
Bio: In the broad domain of Human Resource Management (HRM) Greet Van Hoye examines the inflow of people in organisations. She focusses on attractiveness of organisations and employers, both for potential new hires as well as for current employees. Her specific research interests are recruiting, employer branding, employer image, word of mouth, and job search behaviour.
Adelien Decramer
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Bio: The research of Adelien Decramer is situated in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). Her research interests are performance management, team effectiveness, and job satisfaction.
Mieke Audenaert
Bio: Mieke Audenaert mainly conducts research in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). Her research interests are performance management, job satisfaction, and burn-out.
Dirk Buyens
Bio: The research of Dirk Buyens is situated in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). His research interests are job satisfaction, people management and leadership, career management, strategic personnel management, and organisational development.
Katia Levecque
Bio: Katia Levecque is specialised in employment and wellbeing at work. In particular she is interested in uncertain employment, psychosocial work conditions, workable work, negotiation and mediation, and gender and diversity. As director of ECOOM she is also interested in the wellbeing and performance of doctoral students and their later careers.
Bart Wille
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Bio: In his research Bart Wille examines differences between people (in terms of personality, interests, competences, leadership style,...) and how these impact their behaviour in professional organisations and the decisions they make when building a professional career. The research of Bart Wille has a strong methodological focus in which he uses innovative techniques to adequately map the differences between people and their professional environments.
Eva Derous
Bio: The research of Eva Derous focuses on recruitment and selection procedures in organisations. Her specific research interests are related to diversity and discrimination in recruitment and selection.
Bert Weijters
Bio: The research of Bert Weijters is situated in the broad field of consumer and organisation behaviour. He is interested in the methodological challenges in constructing surveys and the subsequent data analyses. He applies his methodological insights in research on – among others – employer branding.
Peter Vlerick
Bio: Peter Vlerick mainly conducts research in the field of labour and health psychology. His research interests consist of the development and application of knowledge in organisational psychology with a focus on increasing the quality of labour and the safety, health, and wellbeing of employees.
Frederik Anseel
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Bio: In his research Frederik Anseel studies how individuals add to the succes of organisations and what role motivation and leadership plays in this. His methodological expertise is randomised controlled trials (field experiments).
Bart Cockx
Bio: Bart Cockx conducts research on the evaluation of labour market policy. His current research interest are the determinants of search behaviour of unemployed people. Methodologically, he is an expert in micro-econometric modelling used to assess the causal impact of policy interventions.
Luc Van Ootegem
Bio: Luc Van Ootegem focuses on measuring and evaluating individual wellbeing, both in general and at work. He examines alternatives for popular wellbeing and satisfaction measures which take into account personal preferences. Additionally, he conducts research on work quality for specific groups such as older employees.
Elsy Verhofstadt
Bio: Elsy Verhofstadt focuses on measuring and evaluating individual wellbeing, both in general and at work. She examines alternatives for popular wellbeing and satisfaction measures which take into account personal preferences. Additionally, she conducts research on work quality for specific groups such as older employees..
Bert George
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Bio: Bert George mainly conducts research in the field of public management and behaviour. His research interests are the processes and behavior underlying public strategy and the drivers and characteristics of public sector performance. Methodologically, he uses survey data, meta-analyses, and (field) experiments.
Eveline Schollaert
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Bio: The research of Eveline Schollaert focusses on the sustainable relation between organisations and its employees. Her current research interests are ambassadorship of employees, stimulating lifelong learning, alternatives for feedback and evaluation, and the triangle leadership-organisational design-HRM.