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(Dis)Information and Governance
The public sphere in contemporary society has shifted dramatically in the past two decades, and these changes have had an impact on the functioning of democracy.
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Blended Learning and MOOC research
Abstract: Blended learning integrating innovative use of technologies and face-to-face education has become an important education innovation in the modern society.
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Blurring the public-private divide: How citizens respond to and manage political polarisation
Levels of political polarization seem to have reached new heights: while some polarization between competing sides of the electorate is to be expected and may even be conducive to the crystallization of democratic alternatives, polarisation levels today seem to translate into a growing dislike fo
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Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research
The Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research is a research group within the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is dedicated to research and teaching in interdisciplinary urban studies, with particular strengths in geography, spatial planning and urban design.
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Dealing with Toxic News
The project starts from the observation that the news environment is polluted with disinformation that makes media harmful rather than beneficial for democracy.
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European and international data law: Empirical perspectives
Researchers with innovative research projects on European and international data law are invited to broaden, strengthen and/or critically question existing knowledge on European Union (EU) and global data law, and most notably privacy and data protection law, with original empirical research on c
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Human Physiology and Sports Physiotherapy
Our research is focused on 'Exercise and the Brain in Health & Disease' on three levels: fundamental, applied/clinical and policy-making/benchmarking.
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Multistakeholder processes, institutions and democracy
The evolution of global governance mechanisms reveals a number of responses from both state- based and new forms of actors.
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Personality Dynamics at Work: Integrating between-person stability and within- person change
Traditionally, there has been a great interest in the role of personality at work in industrial, work and organizational (IWO) psychology.
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Productivity and usefulness of travel time in the age of digitalisation
In the last 15 years, an increasing number of studies argued that the disutility that we attach to travel time in transport appraisal can be reduced by attributing productive or enjoyable activities to journeys.
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