Sylvie Gadeyne

Sylvie Gadeyne is associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She holds a Phd in Social Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2005), a MAnaMa in Demography (Université Catholique de Louvain, 1998) and a master’s degree in Sociology (Gent University, 1992). Since 1995 she has been involved as a demographic research associate in several projects. Over the years, her research has evolved around socio-economic inequalities in health and mortality in Belgium and Europe. She participated in several national and international projects on mortality inequalities in Europe and was/is promoter of several projects in the field of social epidemiology, cancer epidemiology and environmental epidemiology, with a sociological perspective. She also engaged in research on migration patterns and their consequences in Belgium and on the stalling fertility decline in sub-Sahara Africa.

Gadeyne has also been involved in the development of large administrative datasets, which consist of a linkage between census data, register data on migration, mortality and death certificates. The Belgian National Database Mortality has put Belgium in the limelight and boosted its international position with respect to social research into mortality and health inequalities. As an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Statistics I, Research Methods for Social Sciences, Social Demography, Social Epidemiology and European Social and Population Issues) she also coordinated an educational project ‘Bachelor of Science in Social Sciences’. This educational joint program VUB-UGent has attracted numerous students from all over the world since 2016. At the VUB, Gadeyne was the promoter of five successfully defended PhDs and is currently promoting/co-promoting 11 PhDs.

Expertise:
Quality of work, self-employment

Related projects:

• Green Nexus Green-health-safety Nexus for new Urban Spaces (EU650)
• The drivers of the fertility transition among women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congolese diaspora in Belgium: a comparative mixed-methods study (FWOTM1134)
• SRP-Onderzoekszwaartepunt: Demographic and Societal Challenges of the 21st Century (SRP76)
• INEQKILL: How inequality kills. Two centuries of social and spatial disparities in all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025) (FWOEOS19)
• Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB – UGent, KHAN Yasmine (OZR3938)
• PARTNER PROGRAMMA for the Institutional University cooperation (IUC) with Universidad Catolica Boliviana “San Pablo” (UCB) (year 4) (VLIR394)
• Geospatial analysis of access to green and blue infrastructure from other foundational amenities in the Brussels Capital Region (GREENEQUITIES) (OZR3759)
• HELICON: Unravelling the long-term and indirect health impact of the COVID-19 crisis in Belgium (FOD108)
• Socio-economic inequalities in cancer incidence and in cancer survival. How do they add-up? Analysis of site-specific cancer differences by socio-economic characteristics at the beginning of the 21st century in Belgium (FWOAL886)
• ShortRentBrussels – Inequalities of Shared Short-Term Rentals in Brussels (BRGEOZ376)
• GREEN & QUIET: Green & Quiet Brussels? Analysis of social inequalities in the health-related outcomes of environmental characteristics in teh Brussels Capital Region: a mixed method intersectionality approach (BRGEOZ335)
• Strategic Research Programme: Demographic challenges of the 21st century (SRP16)
• African migration to China (PhD Lin Chen)
• Enhancing development research and training capacity based on a TLC approach at the Public University of El Alto (Bolivia) (VLIR389)
• MISAFIR: Seize and social composition of non registered populations of the Brussels Capital Region (BRGEOZ359)
• European Population Conference 2018 (6-9 June 2018) (CONO629)
• BRUXODUS: Brussels, or rather not? A socio-demographic needs survey into the quality of life in Brussels as a residential city (BRGEOZ304)
• The importance of social and residential mobility in segregation: a study about the connection between social and demographical processess and their effect on the spatial segregation in urban areas in Belgium (FWOTM670)
• CAUSINEQ: Causes of health and mortality inequalities in Belgium: multiple dimensions, multiple causes (DWTC298)
• The social distribution of cancer in Belgium. Socioeconomic inequalities in cancer mortality around the turn of the century (FWOAL670)
• Aspects of social inequality in health (FEZ10)
• The creation of a central databank with statistical data on the local level (municipalities) for the 19th and 20th century Belgium (HERC5)
• Socio-economic inequalities in mortality at the dawn of the 21st century: reproduction of inequalities, social mobility and life cycle effects (FWOTM437)
• Tackling Health Inequality in Belgium (TAHIB) (DWTC189)
• ATLAS : Valorisation of the data from the 2001 Belgian population census (SEE2001) : Data-management, internal migrations in Belgium, households and families, nuptiality and fertility, Atlas of Belgium: Population (DWTC106)
• Causes of death in Belgium. Analyses of socio-economic inequalities in cause-specific mortality (OZR693)
• Socio-economic determinants off differential mortality in Belgium: hazard models analysis with individual and contextual covariates (FWOAL110)
• ikv AGORA programme: Health expectancy by socioeconomic status (DWTC40)