Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Hybrid governance in mining concessions Exploratory field research on hybrid governance in mining concessions in Ghana. IOB researcher Sara Geenen is studying hybrid governance in large-scale gold mining concessions on a post-doctoral FWO fe…

Sara Geenen professor Research Sara Geenen Project websites DRIVING CHANGE. Putting small-scale producers in the driver's seat of mineral supply chain regulation HEALTH. Health in artisanal and small-scale gold mining HANDMADE. From handmade gravel to handmade urbanism. Humans, nature and materials …

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Past projects Overview of past projects at IOB TruePATH InForMining: the informalization of global gold production? Artisanal mining and industrial mining in Eastern DR Congo Constitution building in the African Union Hybrid governance in mi…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Artisanal mining and industrial mining in Eastern DR Congo Impact on livelihoods and violence Nik Stoop and Marijke Verpoorten study the mining sector in Eastern DR Congo, with a special focus on interactions between artisanal and industrial…

Law and Development search menu search content Mediating land rights The frustrating bottom-up account of the ongoing experience of nine communities in DRC Reform Development Finance Institutions’ (DFIs) grievance mechanisms to uphold human rights In November 2018, leaders from nine communities fr…

Sara Geenen professor Research Sara Geenen Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise Extractive industries, natural resources, gold mining, global value chains, global production networks, CSR & standards, labour, informal economy, hybrid governance Nodal governance & cooper…

Institute of Jewish Studies search menu search content Katrien Vloeberghs Representation of the Holocaust in Contemporary Children's and Youth Literature Dr. Katrien Vloeberghs Promotor: Prof. Dr. Vivian Liska This post-doctoral research project investigated the representation of the Holocaust in co…

Filip Reyntjens emeritus occasional assignment Research Filip Reyntjens Research team Expertise Policy supporting advice or expertise on economic or political issues in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa. Finding Durable Solutions for Old Refugee Case-Ioads in Nakivale Settlement - Mbarara Dis…

Marijke Verpoorten professor Research Marijke Verpoorten Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise My research focuses on the economic causes and consequences of armed conflict; on natural resources, religion, global supply chains; and more broadly, on the economic and insti…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Working Papers The IOB Working Paper Series (ISSN 2294-8643) seeks to stimulate the timely exchange of ideas about development issues, by offering a forum to get findings out quickly, even in a less than fully polished form. The IOB Working …

Accountancy and Finance search menu search content ACF Research Seminars Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11.00h-12.00h, Christof Beuselinck (IESEG), - 12.00h-13.00h, Michiel Dierckx (UAntwerpen) Thursday, November 20, 2025, 11h – 13h. Room: S.ABC.402 Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp Program: 11.00h – 1…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Analyses and Policy Briefs Analyses and Policy Briefs are crisp and sharp briefs that offer analysis and/or policy recommendations, and generally make reference to more extensive IOB research outputs. These are typically two- or four-pagers …

Annick Schramme professor Research Annick Schramme Research team Management Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) Expertise Cultural governance, both in Flanders and from a global perspective. In 2019 I published a book on "cultural governance from a global perspective". In recent years I h…

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. 01/12/2025 - 31/12/2026 Abstract Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. This project inves…

Tim Soens full professor Research Tim Soens Research team Centre for Urban History Power in History - Centre for Political History Expertise Tim Soens is an expert in Landscape and Environmental history, with specific emphasis on - climate history (Little Ice Age to Anthropocene) - coastal and river…

Thierry Vanelslander full professor - vice-dean Research Thierry Vanelslander Research team Transport and Regional Economics Expertise Transport economics, port economics, transport innovation, logistics chain analysis, maritime economics, air transport economics, urban logistics, transport policy I…

Transport and Regional Economics search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Inland waterway transport resilience to disruptions: Evidence from the Rhine Alpine Corridor. 15/07/2025 - 14/07/2026 Abstract Inland waterway transport (IWT) offers substantial potential for sustainable freight mo…

Management search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Leaders equally inclusive to all: Do they exist? A multilevel examination of how inclusive leadership may unitentionally harm citizenship outcomes through variability in inclusion perceptions. 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract As workpla…

Centre for Urban History search menu search content Academic Projects - Centre for Urban History Ongoing projects Worth the gamble? Tourism and the embeddedness of gambling in seaside resorts: the case of Ostend at the Belgian coast (1878-1930). 01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029 Abstract This research examine…