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Welcome, Daan!
The Meaning Research Late Life team is delighted to welcome Daan Duppen as a new postdoc member of the team! He will be working on the...
Jul 1, 20221 min read

New handbook Dementia and Society
Dementia and Society is a new handbook published by Cambridge University Press and edited by Mathieu Vandenbulcke (KU Leuven,...
Jul 1, 20221 min read


ECRSH 2022 conference Amsterdam
Several members of the MeReL team (Tine Schellekens, Judith Appel, Julie Vissers, Mar Gil Alvarez) and affiliated members (Eva Buelens)...
Jul 1, 20221 min read


CAT program meeting @ Konstanz
The Institute of the Future in Konstanz welcomed a team of researchers of the CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) program, led by Jessie...
Jul 1, 20221 min read

Laura Dewitte wins ASL Award for Humanities 2021
We are excited to share that Meaning Research Late Life member Laura Dewitte has been awarded with the Academische Stichting Leuven Award...
May 8, 20221 min read

Apr 7, 20220 min read

Frontiers research topic: Meaning in Late Life
The ongoing COVID pandemic showed us how vital the experience of meaning in life is for human wellbeing. This contemporary observation is...
Apr 7, 20221 min read


Something a bit off topic
A lot of women diagnosed with breast cancer experience cognitive difficulties during and after chemotherapy. Julie’s master’s thesis...
Dec 17, 20211 min read


Deelnemers gezocht (75+) !
Voor een nieuwe interviewstudie zijn we op zoek naar 75-plussers die het leven als saai, zinloos, en vermoeiend ervaren of het leven niet...
Dec 15, 20211 min read

Individual prayer in geriatric care
Lindsy Desmet is one of the collaborators of our lab working at the Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology of KU Leuven. She...
Dec 15, 20211 min read


First CAT program meeting
The Paris IAS welcomed a team of researchers of the CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) program, led by Jessie Dezutter, and working at...
Nov 25, 20211 min read


Old Age Psychiatry Conference
On October 28, 2021, the MeReL team participated in the 7th Conference for Old Age Psychiatry, organized by the University Psychiatric...
Nov 25, 20211 min read


2021 International Summit on Suicide Research
From 24 to 27 October 2021, the International Summit on Suicide Research took place as a virtual conference. From our team, Judith Appel...
Nov 22, 20211 min read
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