Interdisciplinary Research Programme: Centre of Expertise in Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality

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• 2025

  Gender and Multiculturalism

  Coene, G. & Saharso, S., 1 Jan 2025, Research Handbook on Multiculturalism: Research Handbooks in Political Thought series. Levey, G. (ed.). Edward Elgar, p. 175-192 18 p. (Political Science and Public Policy 2025).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Multiculturalism 100%
  • Gender Equality 50%
  • Real Life 50%
  • Intersectionality 50%
  • Moral Dilemmas 50%

• Pushing Human Rights Boundaries: Intersectional Discrimination and Reproductive (In)Justice for Romani Women

  D'Agostino, S. & Magazzini, T., 10 Jun 2025, The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights. Henrard, K. & Farkas, L. (eds.). OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 448 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

• 2024

  Animal Politics of Animal Police? Islamophobia and Animal Advocacy Politics

  Jung, M. & Huijzer, M. J., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms: Global Practices and Experiences

  D'Agostino, S. (Editor) & Brown, N. E. (Editor), Aug 2024, Routlegde. 168 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research

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  • Scholars 100%
  • Women's Liberation Movement 100%
  • Milieu 50%
  • Social Science 50%
  • Hegemony 50%

  42 Downloads (Pure)

• It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”: a contextual understanding of anticipatory decision‑making in social egg freezing

  De Proost, M. & Coene, G., 2024, In: BioSocieties. 19, 1, p. 112-129 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Decision Making 100%
  • Qualitative Research 100%
  • Belgium 50%
  • Anticipation 50%
  • Normativity 50%

  3 Citations (Scopus)

  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Meaningfulness experienced in performing domestic labor in Chinese families: a qualitative study from caregivers’ perspectives

  Zhang, B. & Coene, G., Mar 2024, In: The journal of Chinese Sociology. 11, 8, 18 p., 8.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Qualitative Research 100%
  • Caregiver 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Domestic Labor 100%
  • In-Depth Interview 18%

  4 Citations (Scopus)

  49 Downloads (Pure)

• Process evaluation of a parent-child communication intervention for adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Uganda

  Fernandes, D., Kemigisha, E., Achen, D., Akatukwasa, C., Ruzaaza, G. N., Coene, G., Delobelle, P., Nyakato, V. N. & Michielsens, K., 2024, In: BMC Public Health. 24, 1, 15 p., 319.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Contextual Factor 100%
  • Uganda 100%
  • Parent-Child Communication 100%
  • Youth 100%
  • Reproductive Public Health 100%

  5 Citations (Scopus)

  40 Downloads (Pure)

• Reducing working hours: shorter days or fewer days per week? Insights from a 30-hour workweek experiment

  Mullens, F. & Glorieux, I., 1 Jan 2024, In: Cambridge Journal of Economics. 48, 1, p. 41-68 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Working Hours 100%
  • Working Time 100%
  • Belgium 50%
  • In-Depth Interview 50%
  • Focus Group 50%

  4 Citations (Scopus)

  454 Downloads (Pure)

• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) among protracted refugees in Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda. Addressing gaps in knowledge and responses.

  Karooma, C., Neema, C. M., Serwajja, E., Nakijoba, V., Withaeckx, S. & Coene, G., Jan 2024, 140 ed., Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford , 25 p. (RSC Working Paper Series).

  Research output: Working paper

• The emotional journey of researching sexual violence

  Fernandes, D., 1 Feb 2024, LSE Researching Sociology Blog.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Blog › Research

  Open Access

  • Sexual Violence 100%
  • Blog Post 25%
  • Personal Experience 25%

• The Light of Literature (3): “Regarding the Question of Women’s Writing, Women Can’t Seem to Win”

  Bekers, E., Van Hove, H. & Van Puymbroeck, B., 8 Mar 2024

  Research output: Other contribution

  Open Access

  • Online 100%
  • Women's writing 100%
  • Writing Woman 100%

• Women’s Good Political Representation

  Celis, K. & Childs, S., Mar 2024, In: Genero : časopis za feminističku teoriju i studije kulture. 26, p. 1-31 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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  75 Downloads (Pure)

• 2023

  25 years of gender quotas and still a man’s world. What’s wrong with their implementation in the Belgian case?

  Erzeel, S., Meier, P. & Vandeleene, A., 2023, Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas.: Resisting Institutions.. Lang, S., Meier, P. & Sauer, B. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 173-188 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

• AUTONOMY WITHOUT BORDERS? UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACT OF UNDOCUMENTED RESIDENCE STATUS ON HEALTHCARE RELATIONSHIPS IN BELGIUM

  Lafaut, D. & Coene, G., Oct 2023, In: International Journal for feminist approaches to bioethics. 16, 2, p. 1-25 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Belgium 100%
  • Discretionary Power 100%
  • Administrative Procedure 100%
  • Healthcare Service 100%
  • Providing Access 50%

  4 Citations (Scopus)

  172 Downloads (Pure)

• Does ambiguity help or hinder parties during the campaign, and when in office? A survey experiment

  Lefevere, J., Verwee, A. & Erzeel, S., 2023, (Unpublished) p. 1. 20 p.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished paper

• From women’s presence to feminist representation: second-generation design for women’s group representation

  Celis, K. & Childs, S., 2023, In: European Journal of Politics and Gender. 6, 3, p. 359–376

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Political Representation 100%
  • Electoral Politics 100%
  • Democratic Politics 100%
  • Egalitarianism 100%
  • Group Practice 100%

  14 Citations (Scopus)

  126 Downloads (Pure)

• Gezondheidszorg op de dool. Kan global health een antwoord bieden?

  Lafaut, D., 1 May 2023, In: Podium voor Bio-ethiek. 29, 3, p. 9-14 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  26 Downloads (Pure)

• Intimate Partner Violence During and After COVID: IPV-DACOVID Brain-be 2.0 Network Project. Final Report

  Glowacz, F. (Editor), Fallon, C., Vanneste, C., Coene, G., Dziewa, A., Thiry, A., lebrun, L. & Poels, K., 2023, Belgian Science Policy. 210 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Intimate Partner Violence during and after COVID: a case-study from Flanders

  Poels, K. & Coene, G., 2023.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished paper

• Measuring the Substantive Representation of Women Cross-Nationally: Towards a Composite Index

  Rashkova, E. & Erzeel, S., Aug 2023, In: Political Studies Review. 21, 3, p. 523–531 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Interest Groups 100%
  • Gender Inequality 100%
  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Democratic Country 100%

  3 Citations (Scopus)

  26 Downloads (Pure)

• Naar een kosmopolitisch lokalisme. Het grensdenken van Walter Mignolo.

  Translated title of the contribution: Towards a cosmopolitan localism. The border thinking of Walter Mignolo.Van Den Bossche, M., 2023, Redelijkheid. Liber Amicorum Johan Stuy. Van den Bossche, M. & Verstrynge, K. (eds.). Brussels: ASP / VUBPRESS, p. 215-234 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  • Immanuel Kant 100%
  • Eurocentric 100%
  • Cosmopolitan 100%
  • Localism 100%
  • Imperialism 100%

• Narratives of most significant change to explore experiences of caregivers in a caregiver-young adolescent sexual and reproductive health communication intervention in rural south-western Uganda

  Akatukwasa, C., Kemigisha, E., Achen, D., Fernandes, D., Mlahagwa, W., Ruzaaza, G. N., Coene, G., Rukundo, G. Z., Michielsen, K., Nyakato, V. N. & Namatovu, S., 31 May 2023, In: PLoS ONE. 18, 5, 15 p., e0286319.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Narrative 100%
  • Caregiver 100%
  • Uganda 100%
  • Health Communication 100%
  • Youth 100%

  2 Citations (Scopus)

  82 Downloads (Pure)

• Not Enough Time? Leisure and Multiple Dimensions of Time Wealth

  Mullens, F. & Glorieux, I., 2023, In: Leisure Sciences. 45, 2, p. 178-198 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Working Woman 100%
  • Time Pressure 100%
  • Flemish 50%
  • Emotions 50%
  • Leisure Activity 50%

  17 Citations (Scopus)

  253 Downloads (Pure)

• Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, And Activism

  Mphaphuli, M., 2023, In: Journal of Women, Politics & Policy. 44, 4, p. 555-558 3 p., 4.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book review

• Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession: by Thomas Hendriks, Durham, Duke University Press, 2022, xxiv+ 294 pp.

  Henriet, B., 2023, In: Canadian Journal of African Studies. 57, 3, p. 768-770 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book review

• Religieuze symbolen op de werkvloer: Hof van Justitie verfijnt rechtspraak gaandeweg

  Timbermont, E., 2023, In: Chroniques de Droit Social = Sociaalrechtelijke Kronieken. 9, p. 489-494 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  221 Downloads (Pure)

• The field of gender and substantive representation: re-conceptualising, measurement and implications

  Rashkova, E. & Erzeel, S., 2023, In: European Journal of Politics and Gender. 6, 3, p. 304-307 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Trends and Challenges in Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE) Research in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Narrative Review

  Achen, D., Fernandes, D., Nyakato, V. N., Kemigisha, E., rukundo, G. & Coene, G., 2023, In: Current Sexual Health Reports . 16, p. 221-229 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Africa 100%
  • Education Research 100%
  • Sex Education 100%
  • Narrative Review 100%
  • Authors 20%

  21 Citations (Scopus)

  150 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding communication and negotiations about sexual activity in sub-Saharan Africa: A qualitative evidence synthesis

  Lucia Knight & Hilton Humphries, 13 Jun 2023.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

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  • Africa 100%
  • Sexual Behavior 100%
  • Sexual Activity 100%
  • HIV 100%
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease 75%

  63 Downloads (Pure)

• Understanding media discourses on (potential) returnees : gendered and racialized dynamics

  Sliti, J., 30 Jan 2023.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster

  • Discourse 100%
  • Victims 100%
  • Media discourse 100%
  • traditional media 100%
  • Cultural Minorities 100%

• What is “Rural Feminism”? A computer-assisted analysis of popular antifeminist discourses in Chinese social media

  Yang, W., Guo, J. & Arteel, I., 1 Apr 2023, In: Social media + Society. 9, 2, 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Discourse 100%
  • Popular 100%
  • Chinese 100%
  • Computer Analysis 100%
  • Social Media 100%

  22 Citations (Scopus)

  327 Downloads (Pure)

• Who encounters violence, how, and by whom? Mapping intersectional violence against politicians in Belgium

  Van Bavel, A., Erzeel, S. & Celis, K., 2023.

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished paper

• “Let’s Go 50/50”: The Everyday Embodiment of Sexuality Among African Young People

  Mphaphuli, M. & Graham, L., 15 Jul 2023, “Let’s Go 50/50”: The Everyday Embodiment of Sexuality Among African Young People. Wyn, J., Cahill, H. & Cuervo, H. (eds.). 2 ed. Singapore: Springer, p. 1-14 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Sexual Behavior 100%
  • Femininity 100%
  • Discourse 42%
  • Africa 7%
  • Human immunodeficiency virus 7%

• 为家务劳动赋值：女性主义研究的理论图谱

  Zhang, B. & Coene, G., 1 Jan 2023, In: Academic Journal of Chinese Women's College Shandong Branch. 167, p. 31-36 6 p., 1.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

• 2022

  A long way to end rape in the European Union: Assessing the commission’s proposal to harmonise rape law, through a feminist lens

  Rigotti, C., 20 May 2022, In: New Journal of European Criminal Law. 13, 2, p. 153-179 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Law 100%
  • European Union 100%
  • European Commission 66%
  • Tuition Fee 66%
  • Domestic Violence 66%

  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Availability of services for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in The Gambia`s public and private health facilities: a cross-sectional survey

  Afferri, A., Allen, H., Dierickx, S., Bittaye, M., Marena, M., Pacey, A. & Balen, J., Dec 2022, In: BMC Health Services Research. 22, 1, p. 1-11 11 p., 1127.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Cross Sectional Study 100%
  • fertility 100%
  • Health System 50%
  • Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection 25%
  • Student T Test 25%

  18 Citations (Scopus)

  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Barriers and facilitators for the inclusion of fertility care in reproductive health policies in Africa: a qualitative evidence synthesis

  Afferri, A., Allen, H., Booth, A., Dierickx, S., Pacey, A. & Balen, J., 1 Mar 2022, In: Human Reproduction Update. 28, 2, p. 190-199 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Africa 100%
  • Health Policy 100%
  • fertility 100%
  • Reproductive Public Health 100%
  • Health Care Cost 28%

  25 Citations (Scopus)

  307 Downloads (Pure)

• Between Sympathy, Fascination, and Powerlessness. The Experiences of Health Professionals During the Medical Monitoring of a Hunger Strike Among Undocumented Migrants

  Vanobberghen, R., Lafaut, D., Louckx, F., Devroey, D. & Vandevoorde, J., 25 May 2022, In: Frontiers in Public Health. 10, p. 1-10 10 p., 756964.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Powerlessness 100%
  • Health Professional 100%
  • Focus Group 100%
  • Secondary Traumatic Stress 100%
  • Health Practitioner 100%

  1 Citation (Scopus)

  59 Downloads (Pure)

• Conference on Afghanistan: discussing human rights impacts of the Taliban takeover

  Rigotti, C., Top, S. & Zomignani Barboza, J., 25 Jan 2022, Human Rights Here.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist/vulgarizing publication › Blog › Specialist

• Gendered Experiences of Parent–Child Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues: A Qualitative Study Employing Community-Based Participatory Methods among Primary Caregivers and Community Stakeholders in Rural South-Western Uganda

  Achen, D., Nyakato, V., Akatukwasa, C., Kemigisha, E., Mlahagwa, W., Kaziga, R., Ruzaaza, G. N., rukundo, G., Michielsens, K., neema, S. & Coene, G., 21 Apr 2022, In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19, 9, p. 1-16 16 p., 5052.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Qualitative Research 100%
  • Caregiver 100%
  • Community-Based 100%
  • Uganda 100%
  • Health Communication 100%

  20 Citations (Scopus)

  82 Downloads (Pure)

• Gendered political socialization: why girls (sometimes) do not gain as much internal political efficacy from citizenship education as boys

  Matthieu, J., Erzeel, S. & Caluwaerts, D., 6 Jul 2022, (Unpublished).

  Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Unpublished paper

• Hoofdstuk II: Evoluties in definiëring, aanpak en beleid in Vlaanderen: inzichten uit het kruispuntperspectief

  Vergaert, E., Withaeckx, S. & Coene, G., 2022, Gekruiste perspectieven op partnergeweld. : Over de resultaten van het onderzoek 'partnergeweld: impact, processen, evolutie en publiek beleid (IPV-PRO&POL). Vanneste, C. (ed.). Brussel : Politea, p. 57-78 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

• Hoofdstuk V. Een thematische analyse van de informele ondersteuning in de levensloop van slachtoffers van partnergeweld

  Poels, K., Vergaert, E. & Coene, G., 2022, Gekruiste perpsectieven op partnergeweld : Over de resultaten van het onderzoek 'partnergeweld: impact, processen, evolutie en publiek beleid (IPV-PRO&POL). Vanneste , C. (ed.). Brussel : Politea, p. 133-155 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

• 'I feel that injustice is being done to me': a qualitative study of women's viewpoints on the (lack of) reimbursement for social egg freezing

  De Proost, M., Coene, G., Nekkebroeck, J. & Provoost, V., 29 Mar 2022, In: BMC Medical Ethics. 23, 1, p. 1-11 11 p., 35.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Qualitative Research 100%
  • fertility 100%
  • Health Care Cost 100%
  • Belgium 50%
  • Europe 50%

  16 Citations (Scopus)

  143 Downloads (Pure)

• Intimate Partner Violence: impact, processes, evolution and related public policies in Belgium

  Vanneste, C. (Editor), Coene, G., Dziewa, A., Eggerickx, T., Fallon, C., GLOWACZ, F., Lemonne, A., Mahieu, V., Plavsic, A., Delens-Ravier, I., Rousseaux, X., Sanderson, J.-P., Thiry, A., Van Praet, S., Vergaert, E. & Withaeckx, S., 2022, Belgian Science Policy. 241 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• Introduction. Sexual and Gendered Moralities

  Coene, G. & Longman, C., 2022, In: Religion and Gender. 12, 2, p. 123-127 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Europe 100%
  • Discourse 100%
  • Living Condition 100%
  • Neoconservative 100%
  • Nuclear Family 100%

  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Level and comfort of caregiver–young adolescent communication on sexual and reproductive health: a cross-sectional survey in south-western Uganda

  Akatukwasa, C., Nyakato, V. N., Achen, D., Kemigisha, E., Atwine, D., Mlahagwa, W., neema, S., Ruzaaza, G. N., Coene, G., Rukondo, G. & Michielsen, K., 19 Nov 2022, In: BMC Public Health. 22, 1, p. 1-14 14 p., 2129 .

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Uganda 100%
  • Health Communication 100%
  • Youth 100%
  • Reproductive Health 100%
  • Cross-Sectional Survey 100%

  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Medical versus social egg freezing: The importance of future choice for women’s decision-making

  De Proost, M. & Alexis Paton, Dec 2022, In: Monash Bioethics Review. 40, 2, p. 145-156 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Decision Making 100%
  • Ethics 33%
  • Thematic Analysis 33%
  • Lived Experience 33%
  • Bioethics 33%

  18 Citations (Scopus)

• Normative Violence, Traditional Healing, and Harm Regarding Same-Sex Relations Among Women in Mozambique

  Chipenembe Ngale, M. J. M., Coene, G. & Longman, C., 2022, Religion and Gender-Based Violence. Global and Local Reponses to Harmful Practices. Bartelink, B., Longman, C. & Bradley, T. (eds.). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, p. 133-157 25 p. (Routledge Research in Religion and Develoment ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review

• Pink Glasses Podcast: Gender equality and Violence against women in politics

  Van Bavel, A., 2022

  Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products