RESEARCH CENTRE GENDER, DIVERSITY & INTERSECTIONALITY (RHEA)

BRUSSEL UNIVERSITY, BELGIUM

1987

Management and equipment. Structure

  • Director
  • Co-director
  • Coordinator

Objectives

  • To be committed to the development of scientific research on gender, diversity and intersectionality and the valorisation of this knowledge.
  • To be an interdisciplinary, interfaculty and internationally networked research group committed to the development of scientific research and the valorisation of knowledge in education, external and internal policy-making and public debates.
  • To provide:
  • Fundamental and applied research on gender, diversity & intersectionality in a variety of academic disciplines.
  • Specialised and integrated education on gender & diversity on bachelor, master and doctoral level.
  • A platform for researchers and lecturers from different faculties and departments.
  • Internal and external advice on equal opportunities and diversity policies.

Research and results

Research projects by RHEA members (65). Related with Heritage and Humanities:

  • Woman and the repression of collaboration in Belgium after the second World War.
  • (Dirk Luyten and Michel Magits, 2000-2004) à Publication
  • Violence in the name of hnour: myth or reality? A pilot study in Flanders (Coene, Gily, 2009-2012).
  • The feminization of justice in Belgium (20th century) (Machteld De Metsenaere, 2010-2013).
  • Harmful cultural practices: a critical analysis of cross-cultural discourses and moral understandings of gender, sexuality and embodiment (Coene, Gily, 2015-2018).
  • Who deserves (our) care? A critical enquiry of moral understanding and normative frameworks on health care for undocumented migrants (Coene, Gily, 2015-2019).
  • Researching late-modern implementation of punishment: developing a theoretical and comparative methodological framework (Kristel Beyens, 2015-2016).
  • CONO646: Event: Flemish-Moroccan book caravan 2018 / Forgotten Queens (Iman Lechkar, 2018-2019).

Ongoing projects

Active Research projects by RHEA members (24). Related with Heritage and Humanities:

  • A Holistic, Restorative and Gendered approach to Guide Returnees to their Home country (Iman Lechkar, 2021-2024).
  • Advanced Text Harvesting based on Semantic-Enriched Analysis (Tan Lu, 2023-2024).