Prof Dimitri Mortelmans
Senior Full Professor of Sociology, a leading authority on family sociology, labour and life course dynamics. He has published extensively on family dynamics, work–life balance, singlehood and research methodology in social sciences.
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Prof Vanessa Joosen
Full Professor in English literature, specialising in age studies and children’s literature. Her research explores how literature shapes the life course across all ages, from childhood to later life. She promotes the inclusion of children and older adults in cultural and literary debates and also studies the translation and adaptation of fairy tales.
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Prof Mike Kestemont
Full Research Professor in computational (digital) humanities, specialising in computational models of human culture and the long-term persistence of cultural information. Through Cultural Ecology, he applies biostatistics, machine learning and data science to analyse "noisy" historical data, in particular historic texts and images.
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Prof Frederik Swennen
Full Professor of Family Law specialising in non-conventional families, across adult unions, parent-child relations, and broader kinship. His work challenges traditional family law paradigms, particularly the ‘Sexual Family’ model, and develops a modular approach to cont(r)actualisation for queer and socio-economically non-conforming families. As President of the International Society of Family Law, he is a leading expert in international and comparative family law.
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Dr Pat Buxton
Research Manager specialising in family dynamics and post-separation contexts, especially domestic violence and stepfamilies. She brings extensive experience in international research management and institutional collaborations, including complex EU and private funding portfolios.
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