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🌟 Welcome to our team, Rikkie Speleman! 🌟 Rikkie recently joined our COMPASS team as a care navigator. In our team of six care navigators, she collaborates with general practitioners in the Antwerp region to provide tailored support to clients. Excited to have her on board!

Care navigator in the picture! 👏 Tetiana Tabachniuk joined CPFH as a care navigator in our COMPASS team. With a teaching degree from Ukraine and almost four years of experience in Belgium, Tetiana brings valuable intercultural insights to the project. Good job, Tetiana!

Elke Claessens and Dimitri Mortelmans recently published a comparative study on joint physical custody and mothers' life satisfaction, in collaboration with colleagues from Germany and Finland. The results show significant differences between countries: doi.org/10.1080/132294…

Across the world, women are having fewer children and increasingly choosing a life without children. In Knack, Karel Neels offers valuable insights on this phenomenon and explains how the postponement of having children becomes a cancellation altogether: knack.be/nieuws/wereld/…

Childless singles should think about what will happen to their inheritance when they die. Spoiler alert: there won't be much left - unless they get married. In De Morgen, Dimitri Mortelmans talks about inheritance discrimination: demorgen.be/nieuws/niet-ge…

Meet Armstrong Mitabu, who recently joined our research group on the COMPASS project! Armstrong is deeply committed to addressing health disparities among underserved communities and advancing health equity among marginalized communities. Welcome to our team Armstrong!🌟

The decreasing number of peple opting to have a (second) child leads to declining birth rates and raises concerns and questions concerning health care, pensions and migration. In De Morgen, Karel Neels reflects on the evolution of the Belgian population: demorgen.be/nieuws/een-gro…

😍We're happy to introduce Evelien, a new PhD student joining our group! ➡️Evelien will be working on the research project examining how labour market opportunities and economic cycles shape family formation among young adults with a migration background. Good luck, Evelien!

❗️Meet Jorbe, a new PhD student in our group! 🌎Jorbe is joining the DynaMIGs project, which aims to develop a demographic microsimulation model to understand infectious disease transmission. 👏Welcome, Jorbe!

CPFH takes part in The Social Study, a data collection initiative maintaining a representative panel of over 5000 Belgian residents who participate in surveys on key societal topics. Looking to collect data or access TSS data for your research 👉thesocialstudy.be/information-fo…

Families have always captured our imagination and played a key role in our history. But what do modern family structures look like today? In Sociologie Magazine, Dimitri Mortelmans explores the evolving dynamics of contemporary families. sociologiemagazine.nl

Our colleague, Kimberly, was recently featured on the podcast ‘Scheiden! Wat nu?’ to discuss the impact of divorce on families from a research-based perspective. Listen to the (Dutch) episode for valuable insights and practical guidance on divorce: open.spotify.com/episode/07UM8k…

CPFH colleague Dries Van Gasse recently led a workshop at VUB on integrating Artificial Intelligence into qualitative research. Participants explored foundational AI technologies and gained experience with a multitude of applications, all while remaining attentive to ethics!

Elke Claessens was appointed as Early Career Researcher in a Constructive Advanced Thinking project on Singlehood! The Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study will fund team get-togethers, aimed at delving into the evolving social and policy dimensions of singlehood.

Last week, CPFH colleague Haike Delafontaine succesfully defended her PhD titled "Making sense of absence, distance, and presence : the role of time and space in the meaning-giving processes underlying loneliness in old age". Congratulations, Dr. Delafontaine!👏

Interested in the dynamics of single living? Our CPFH colleagues helped launch the International Singles Studies Association Association - a global research community exploring singlehood. Follow ISSA to join the conversation! #CPFH #ISSA #SinglesStudies #Singlehood

Today, our research group took part in an Active Bystander Training focused on preventing sexual harassment. Special thanks to Anneleen De Cuyper and Sofie Avery for the organisation. We remain committed to supporting a research culture grounded in respect, safety and care.