CuDOS: Research Areas and Staff
ABOUT CuDOS
The research group 'Cultural Diversity: Opportunities and Socialization' (CuDOS) is a collaboration of different research strands that aims to gain insight in and build up knowledge within three research fields within sociology:
CuDOS also refers to a specific research approach, summarized in a number of guiding principles for solid scientific research expressed by the sociologist R.K. Merton:
Communalism entails that scientific results are the common property of the entire scientific community.
Universalism means that all scientists can contribute to science regardless of race, nationality, culture, or gender.
Disinterestedness according to which scientists should not present their results entangled with their personal beliefs or activism for a cause. Scientists should have an arms length attitude towards their findings.
Originality The claims by researchers must be novel and add something to our knowledge and understanding.
Scepticism means that scientific claims must be exposed to critical scrutiny before being accepted.
In line with these principles we aim to disseminate and discuss our research findings with different audiences and promote multi-disciplinary research that is both innovative and rigorous.
Finally, while our research is often highly relevant to policy makers and practitioners, we endorse a view of social science research that is not influenced by personal beliefs or activism for a cause.
PROFESSORS
- Prof. dr. Jannick Demanet
- Prof. dr. John Lievens
- Prof. dr. Henk Roose
- Prof. dr. Peter Stevens
- Prof. dr. Mieke Van Houtte
RESEARCH STAFF
Mathijs De Baere
Category: Researcher
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Mathijs.DeBaere@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 83 44
Current research:
Culture participation and education
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/33779A5C-F0EE-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4
Jannick Demanet
Category: Associate Professor
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Jannick.Demanet@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 97 78
Current research:
Sociology of Education - Sociology of Deviancy - School effects research – Educational inequality - Social Science research methods
Publications:
http://www.lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/802000232230
Emma Degroote 
Category: Assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Emma.Degroote@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 84 36
Current research:
Sociology of Education - School Effects Research
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/000120445405
Dieter Dekeyser 
Category: Assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Dieter.Dekeyser@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 91 63
Current research:
Cognitive sociology - Political belief systems - Media framing effects - Dual-process theory, values and dispositions - Survey experiments
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802001267706
Lorenz Dekeyser
Category: PhD Researcher
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: lorenz.dekeyser@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 84 36
Current research:
Tracking/ability grouping, collective identities, prejudices
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/EDE8FB4E-2010-11E4-8BB4-A9F3B4D1D7B1
Fanny D'hondt
Category: Postdoc - project coordinator
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: fanny.dhondt@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 29
Current research:
FWO SBO EdisTools project, discrimination, ethnic inequality in education
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802000808469
Jan Ferwerda
Category: Assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: jan.ferwerda@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Cultural sociology - Sociology of the arts - Filmcritics
Publications:
Category: PhD Researcher
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: marloes.hagenaars@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
FWO SBO EdisTools project, discrimination, ethnic inequality
Publications:
John Lievens
Category: Full Professor
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: John.Lievens@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 83 48
Current research:
Art and cultural participation - Lifestyles - Social differentiation - Migration - Partner selection - Ethnic minorities
Publications:
http://www.lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/801000891750
Charlotte Maene
Category: PhD Student
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Charlotte.Maene@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 91 75
Current research:
Ethnic relations - Racism and discrimination - School composition and policy - Mixed methods research - Collective identity in Belgium
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/465E25CC-3936-11E4-975D-9EF2B4D1D7B1
Lien Maes
Category: Assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: lien.maes@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Culture participation and education
Publications:
Julia Peters 
Category: PhD Student
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: J.Peters@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 91 90
Current research:
Sociology of the arts - Artists - Government funding -Discourse analysis - Cultural sociology - Aesthetics
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/000151262810
Eef Rombaut
Category: Phd Student
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: eef.rombaut@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Culture participation and education
Publications:
Henk Roose
Category: Associate Professor
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Henk.Roose@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 91 70
Current research:
Sociology of arts - Sociology of culture - Social inequality and stratification - Social science research methods - Evaluation research
Publications:
http://www.lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/801001470619
Wenlei Shi
Category: PhD Student
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: wenlei.shi@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Partner choice in ethnic minorities
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8711415
Jessy Siongers
Category: Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
postal address: Korte Meer 5, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Jessy.Siongers@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 83 42
Current research:
Monitoring cultural and social participation – Cultural education – Social inequality in participation – The socio-economic situation of professional artists - Monitoring youth and their social and political attitudes - Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS2018)
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/802001285890
Peter Stevens
Category: AssociateProfessor
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Peter.Stevens@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 91 73
Current research:
Race/ethnicity - Educational inequality - Racism - Ethnic identity - Repatriation/expatriation
Publications:
http://www.lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/801001231149
Timo Van Canegem
Category: PhD Student
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: timo.vancanegem@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Contextual effects of grade repetition on non-cognitive outcomes
Publications: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/FDF58B5E-FFAC-11E2-99A4-C36710BDE39D
Lennart Van Eycken
Category: Assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Lennart.VanEycken@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 83 45
Current research:
Sociology of education – School effects – Teacher effects – School composition – Educational inequality
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/D2EC2E04-F0EE-11E1-A197-91C894A0A6B4
Mieke Van Houtte
Category: Full Professor
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Mieke.VanHoutte@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 68 02
Current research:
Consequences of tracking/streaming - Effects of social-ethnic school composition - Education and gender - Transition from primary to secondary education - Teacher trust - LGB's and education - Antisocial school behavior/school misconduct
Publications:
http://www.lib.ugent.be/bibliografie/801000942270
Amelie Van Pottelberge
Category: Postdoc researcher
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
Postal address: Korte Meer 5, 9000 Gent
e-mail: Amelie.VanPottelberge@UGent.be
phone: 09 264 83 47
Current research:
Social demography - Partner selection - Ethnic minorities - Fertility - Intergroup relations
Methodology of Social Science Probabilistic Panels
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/000080569109
Mart Willekens
Category: Doctor-assistant
Contact info:
Office: Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 T1, 9000 Gent
e-mail: mart.willekens@ugent.be
phone: 09 264 67 96
Current research:
Culture participation and education
Publications:
https://biblio.ugent.be/person/317E004C-F0EE-11E1-A9DE-61C894A0A6B4