Research

The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies represents more than twenty research groups that all do research on urban themes from their own disciplinary perspectives, but also believe in the added value of research collaborations between and across research groups. Please scroll down for a list of all ongoing and completed urban studies projects or read more.

Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL) x

Babeliris ›

innovIRIS, 2011-2015

Antoon Cox, Rita Temmerman
Research Completed Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)
Colloquium "Translanguaging in Multilingual Urban Settings" ›

The colloquium took place on the 29th of April 2016 in the Bibliothèque Royale in Brussels

Hélène Stengers
Research Completed Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)
Exploring misunderstandings in multilingual doctor-patient communication in a super-diverse Emergency Department ›

Innoviris and VUB

Antoon Cox, Philippe Humblé
Research Ongoing Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)
Jewish Heterotopia in Breslau: Spatio-Discursive Structures in Willy Cohn's Third Reich Diaries, 1933-1941 ›

FWO-project

Arvi Sepp
Research Ongoing Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)
Open Semantic Cloud for Brussels (OSCB) ›

This project aims to cover Brussels, metaphorically speaking of course, with a cloud of structured and interlinked information elements produced by “atomizing” a collection of relevant databases...
Research Completed Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)
Study of bilingual-translated road signage in and around Brussels ›

Linda Dewolf
Research Ongoing Brussels Institute for Applied Linguistics (BIAL)