Research for Digitalisation, Diversity and Democracy

The research unit R4D conducts social science research on three major fundamental changes in contemporary societies: digitalisation, diversity and democracy. These phenomena are increasingly redrawing the relationships between individuals and core institutions such as the state, the market, civil society, communities, the family as well as between individuals themselves. This gives rise to new, complex issues whose outcomes are often difficult to predict in the long term and which involve a large number of stakeholders with unequal power. These issues constitute so-called "grand challenges" for society, or challenges for which there is no simple solution. However, they simultaneously offer new opportunities to redesign society and its core institutions with a view to increasing dignity, equality, inclusion and sustainability.

Algorithms, Citizen participation, Contesting Governance, Data protection, Democracy, Digital platforms, Digitalisation, Diversity, Future of Work Hub, Gender and Diversity, Innovation in the public sector, Institutional reforms, Institutions for Open Societies, Migration and Societal Change, Perceptions of the public sector, Privacy, User driven innovation, Value-based design

• Joanna BEECKMANS
• Niels BIBERT
• Jan BOON
• Dounia BOURABAIN
• Jonas BREUER
• Anna CARRERI
• Sara COSEMANS
• Floris DE KRIJGER
• Tom DE LEYN
• Elif DINCER
• Sofie HENNAU
• Marco HOUBEN
• Ilka KLEIJNEN
• Stephanie KOZIEJ
• Veronika LEMEIRE
• Camille MEUS
• Kseniia OBUKHOVA
• Ilse PETERS
• Jo PIERSON
• Ana POP STEFANIJA
• Annelies SCHEERS
• Itamar SHACHAR
• Gwendoline SOMERS
• Christina STABOURLOS
• Dries VAN DONINCK
• Ine VAN ZEELAND
• Julian VANDERSTRAETEN
• Julien VRYDAGH
• Patrizia ZANONI
• Jannes ZWAENEPOEL

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