Welcome to RHEA, the Research Centre for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at the VUB!
We are an interdisciplinary and internationally networked centre, committed to scientific research and it's valorisation in education, policy-making and public debate.
News
Newsletter Autumn 2025: Editor's Choice
Young people's well-being and pornography: meet the researcher. Exclusively for the readers of our newsletter, RHEA interviewed Nina Szyf, PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University (joint PhD) within the SWYPPE-project.
Danielle Fernandes wins KVAB Science Communication award
Help Danielle win the extra EOS audience award too, by voting!
Events
Practical info02/03/2026 - 18:30 - 02/03/2026 - 20:30Refusing Conformity: Trans Bodies as a Site of Resistance
Binnen onze jaarlijkse “RHEA Gender Lecture Series” van het Onderzoekscentrum voor Gender, Diversiteit, en Intersectionaliteit RHEA (VUB), organiseren we op 2 maart 2026 een panelgesprek met als thema: "Refusing to Conform: Trans Bodies as a Site of Resistance”
Practical info10/12/2025 - 17:30 - 10/12/2025 - 19:30Sex Education: A Critical Understanding
Join RHEA for Sex Education: A Critical Understanding, a panel that brings together scholars and practitioners to interrogate the theory behind sex education, and its connections to the realities of policy, classrooms, clinics, and communities.
