Welcome
Welcome on the website of the Flemish Policy Research Centre on Culture.
The Policy Research Centre on Culture is an interuniversity and interdisciplinary consortium supported by the Flemish government ministries of Scientific Research and Culture. More specifically, this interdisciplinary and interuniversity consortium consists of the following four research groups spread across three Universities :
- Research Group CuDOS, Department of Sociology at Ghent University
- Research Group TOR, Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Research Group SMIT, Department of Communication Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Research Group CIMS at the KU Leuven
The Policy Research Centre on Culture combines research questions from various (sub)domains within cultural policy. The research program is clustered in the following research lines:
- Participation Survey (all research teams, coordination & methodology: UGhent – Department of Sociology - Research group CuDOS)
- Cultural education (UGhent – Department of Sociology - Research group CuDOS)
- Cultural experience (UGhent – Department of Sociology – Research group CuDOS)
- Disadvantaged groups and social and cultural participation (VUB – Department of Sociology – Research group TOR )
- Local social-cultural work (VUB – Department of Sociology – Research group TOR)
- Digital media and social networks (VUB – Department of Communication – Research group SMIT)
- The interaction between supply and demand for culture (KULeuven – Research Group CIMS)