RHEA Research - Topics and projects

RHEA members perform and collaborate on research in multiple disciplinary areas and on various topics that can be clustered around the following research lines: 

• Harmful cultural practices and gender-based violence
• Equality policies and political representation
• Intersectionality and feminist theory
• Gender, religion and secularism
• Bio-ethics and sexual and reproductive rights
• Migration, anti-discrimination policies and citizenship
• Post-colonial theory, (de)coloniality and epistemic diversity
• Gender, diversity and education
• Agency, identity and subjectivity

Below, you find an overview of our current research projects.

Are you passionate about research? Do you feel like delving into a particular topic for some years and develop original research that can contribute to theoretical and societal debates? Are you interested in examining how systems of inequality and exclusion are shaped along and across different lines of identity and social categorization, how these impact upon individual experiences, are (re)produced in institutions and policies and how this might possibly be overcome? Then doing a PhD at RHEA might be the thing for you! Click here for more information!

FWO-Project "Harmful Cultural Practices. A critical analysis of cross-cultural discourses and moral understandings of gender, sexuality and embodiment"

VLIR-UOS TEAM "Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health through a Participatory Parent-Child Communication Intervention in Uganda"

VLIR-UOS South Initiative "Sexual and Gender-based Violence in a Protracted Refugee Situation in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Southwestern Uganda"

FWO-Project RepResent: Representation and Democratic Resentment

Who deserves (our) care? A critical enquiry of moral understandings and normative frameworks on health care for undocumented migrants.

Egg freezing and moral understandings of women anticipating future infertility

The role and experiences of family doctors, victims and offenders in cases of Intimate partner violence: an intersectional, qualitative approach in Belgium.

A comparative study on the roles of Confucianist Ren Ethics and Feminist Care Ethics. Playing in the construction of women's subjectivity

Understanding Women's Perspective of Reproductive Justice. A qualitative Study of Sub Saharan African Migrant Women Living in Belgium.