Laurens van der Steen valorisation manager

Research Laurens van der Steen

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Currently, I am working as a Valorisation Manager for the Social and Human Sciences at the University of Antwerp. I used to work as a doctoral researcher in the field of communication of citizenship, sustainability and politics, and I do still follow up on some of the developments in the field. I also did some sociology of law at the beginning of my academic career.

IOF Valorisation of social and human sciences. 01/03/2021 - 31/12/2026

Abstract

Within SSH domain we notice an increasing activity towards partnerships with the private sector. Innovative software applications are an important driver, but also in the domains of communication, ethics, management systems, transport, law and safety sciences an increasing need for valorization support is observed. This IOF mandate will be facilitator for industrial partnerships within the faculties Social Sciences, Law, Arts, Applied Economics and the Institute of Development Policy and Management (IOB).

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    What are we buying into?: A holistic empirical analysis of the production, circulation and reception of discourses on ethical consumption, with a focus on de-politicisation. 01/10/2015 - 30/09/2017

    Abstract

    Supplanting the current analyses of ethical consumption within society, the aim of this research proposal is to study ethical consumption in Flanders as a struggle between different discourses on ethical consumption, by focussing on the concept of de-politicisation. Merging the stringent empirical approach of the case studies with the critical aim of the theoretical analyses, we put forward ethical consumption as a concept which is above all discursive in nature. To study the (contingent) role of ethical consumption within society is to map existing discourses about ethical consumption by either organisations or citizen-consumers as diverse kinds of ethical consumptions and critically dissect the underlying assumptions of these discourses.

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    • Research Project

    What are we buying into? A holistic empirical analysis of the production, circulation and reception of discourses on ethical consumption, with a focus on de-politicisation. 01/10/2013 - 30/09/2015

    Abstract

    Supplanting the current analyses of ethical consumption within society, the aim of this research proposal is to study ethical consumption in Flanders as a struggle between different discourses on ethical consumption, by focussing on the concept of de-politicisation. Merging the stringent empirical approach of the case studies with the critical aim of the theoretical analyses, we put forward ethical consumption as a concept which is above all discursive in nature. To study the (contingent) role of ethical consumption within society is to map existing discourses about ethical consumption by either organisations or citizen-consumers as diverse kinds of ethical consumptions and critically dissect the underlying assumptions of these discourses.

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    • Research Project