Cijfers laten zien dat er steeds meer docenten opgebrand raken. Werkdruk is een hot topic in het onderwijs. Dit heeft niet alleen te maken met veel uren werken maar ook met de kwaliteit van de relaties in de werkomgeving. Recent is onderzoek gedaan naar de vraag of een positieve, conflict-vrije relatie …

Elke docent kent de momenten waarop eerlijkheid het verschil maakt. Denk aan een student die ontkent iets met pestgedrag te maken te hebben, of aan een ruzie over verdwenen spullen. Toch is het verrassend moeilijk om te bepalen of iemand de waarheid spreekt. Onderzoek laat zien dat mensen leugens nauwelijks …

The built environment is responsible for approximately 36% of carbon emissions in Europe, 40% of energy consumption, and over 50% of extracted virgin materials, as well as generating one third of total waste (European Commission, 2020). Historically, strategies to reduce the environmental impact have …

Aim: Mothers of children with intellectual disabilities are particularly vulnerable to mental distress due to demanding and exhausting caregiving. However, in the Arab world, they are seldom screened for depression because of limited diagnostic resources. Addressing the urgent need for brief and reliable …

The project focuses on highlighting the importance of the work-life balance within the hospitality industry, in 5-star hotels. Moreover, it is tailored to deliver a concrete and efficient implementation plan of a 5-day work week system instead of the current 6-day work week model system within a 5 star …

The Middle East and North Africa region has been absent form stocktaking exercises on social accountability initiatives (SAI), an umbrella term to designate citizen-led tools aimed at socio-political change. We argue that this sidelining is unwarranted, given the proliferation of participatory governance …

This chapter offers a working definition of social accountability as any citizen-led action beyond elections that aims to enhance the accountability of state actors. We view social accountability as a broad array of predominantly bottom-up initiatives, aimed at improving the quality of governance (especially …

In this chapter, we first summarise the findings from the country chapters on the multiple meanings of SA, documenting terms, translations and contrasting understandings between citizens and public officials. Second, we highlight how civil mobilisation tends to be cyclical over time and is often mediated …

In an aging population, the prevalence of people with dementia is increasing. Intelligent environments can offer a solution to support people in the early stages of dementia, who often experience problems with maintaining their day-night rhythm. The focus of this work is developing an Intelligent Environment …

Veganism and vegetarianism is a globally growing practice that is becoming of high social relevance. However, Egypt is an overlooked country when it comes to the widely discussed topic of veganism/vegetarianism. There is a lack of statistical analysis as well as plant based food market presence. The …