Interface Demography is a research centre connected to the Sociology Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with a strong expertise in both demographic and sociologic research. Its main topics of interest are (1) population dynamics in Belgium and Europe, (2) labour market-related determinants of health and well-being and (3) the management, linkage and exploration of large administrative and survey data. The SEAD projects fits in a growing research line coordinated by prof. dr. Christophe Vanroelen, which is concerned with various aspects of the work and employment situation as determinants of health and well-being (inequalities) in workers.

Christophe Vanroelen

christophe.vanroelen@vub.be
+32 2 614 81 25

Christophe Vanroelen is associate professor and director of the Interface Demography research centre. He holds a PhD in social health sciences and master degrees in sociology and applied social science statistics. His research focuses predominantly on the quality of work and employment as determinants of health and well-being among workers.

karen.van.aerden@vub.be
+32 2 614 81 56

Karen Van Aerden is a senior researcher connected to the Interface Demography research centre since November 2011. In 2018, she successfully defended her PhD in Sociology. Currently, she works on different projects related to her main research interests: job and employment quality in relation to employees’ mental and physical health.  

jessie.gevaert@vub.be
+32 2 614 81 38

Jessie Gevaert is a doctoral student connected to Interface Demography since 2017. She holds a master degree in sociology, which she completed with a MA dissertation on the working conditions and work-related health of the self-employed. Her current research focuses mostly on the work-related well-being of people in self-employment and small enterprises.

The team for this project at the Department of Economics (ECON) of KU Leuven is composed of two economists with a broad experience in econometrics, labour economics and socio-economic analysis.

Nick Deschacht

nick.deschacht@kuleuven.be
+32 2 609 81 99

Nick Deschacht is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven and guest professor in labour economics at Antwerp University. His research is focused on applied micro-econometrics and the political economy of labor markets, with an emphasis on issues relating to discrimination in the labor market and wage formation. He teaches courses on econometrics, policy evaluation methods and labour economics.

HIVA – Research Institute for Work and Society is a multidisciplinary research institution at KU Leuven, specialised in policy-oriented research. The SEAD project fits in the expertise and research tradition of the Work, Organisation and Social Dialogue research group of HIVA. This research group studies the opportunities for high-quality, long-term jobs and how the policy applied by organisations, sectors and other actors affects those opportunities. Since several years, the relationship between digitalisation, social dialogue and job quality is one of the central research topics.

ezra.dessers@kuleuven.be
+32 16 32 04 67

Ezra Dessers is research manager at HIVA – KU Leuven and assistant professor at the Centre for Sociological Research – KU Leuven. His research is focused on the relation between people, organisations and technology, in various societal domains. Ezra holds graduate degrees in sociology, spatial planning and information technology, and obtained a PhD degree in Social Sciences at the KU Leuven in 2012.  

LENTIC is a multidisciplinary research center of HEC-Liège (University of Liège), focused on the human and organizational aspects of change processes and new work arrangements on the labour market (see www.lentic.be). It includes scholars with various backgrounds: sociology, management, anthropology, communication, political science, etc. Its main areas of research are the evolutions of the HR function, the link between HRM policies and organizational design, new organizational forms and their impact on social dialogue, new forms of employment and the management of the digital transformation.

Francois Pichault

F.pichault@uliege.be
+32 4 366 30 70

Francois Pichault, PhD in sociology, is full Professor at HEC-Management School (University of Liège, Belgium). As chairman of LENTIC, he has been the main coordinator of several interdisciplinary research projects on flexicurity, independent professionals, digitization and industrial relations, or new forms of careers.  He currently holds the Securex professorship on New Opportunities for Organizations, People & Employment Intermediaries in a Changing Labor Market (2017-2020). He is also the Scientific Director of Entreprise & Personnel (Paris), a think tank focused on the future of the HRM function.

Laura.beuker@uliege.be
+32 4 366 31 53

Laura Beuker has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences. She is a researcher at LENTIC and in charge of event projects at MSH (ULiège). Her current research interests include labour market intermediaries, new forms of employment, social protection and collective representation of self-employed professionals. Its main publications concern the active labour market policies, new forms of social dialogue for the autonomous workers and comparison between European national contexts related to self-employment. en in 2012.