Profile

Biography

After having obtained a master in sociology at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2005 - ULB), Laurie gained an advanced master’s degree in “Quantitative analysis in social sciences” in 2008 (Kubrussel/ Kuleuven). Two years later, she completed her doctoral thesis at the ULB (funded by the National Fund for the Scientific Research). Her PhD research focused on the profile of visitors of modern and contemporary art museums in Belgium.

Her main fields of interest are sociology of culture and art as well as social sciences methodology. She has collaborated with the Observatory of Cultural Policies of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium) in order to treat data about cultural participation in this part of the country. She has also worked on themes such as ethnicity, intergroups relations and immigration and on the operationalisation of these concepts in empirical research. She helped, for instance, develop a feasibility study on a tolerance barometer for the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism and for the Equal Opportunities Minister.

Research

Overview

The main research interests of Laurie are in the areas of:

• Cultural sociology
• Attitudes towards art
• Sociology of immigration
• Methodology, quantitative analysis and mixed methods

Publications

Selected publications

• Hanquinet L. (forthcoming). ‘Visitors to modern and contemporary art museums. Towards a new sociology of ‘cultural profiles’, The Sociological Review.
• Hanquinet L., Roose H. & Savage M. (forthcoming).  ‘The eyes of the beholder: Aesthetic preferences and museum audiences’,Sociology.
• Teney C., Devleeshouwer P. & Hanquinet L. (2013). ‘Educational aspirations among ethnic minority youth in Brussels: Does the perception of ethnic discrimination in the labor market matter? A mixed-method approach’, Ethnicities, already available online.
• Hanquinet L. (2013) ‘Mondrian as kitchen tiles? Artistic and cultural conceptions of art museum visitors in Belgium’, Cultural Trends, 22 (1), 14-29.
• Hanquinet L. & Savage M. (2012). ‘Educative leisure’ and the contemporary museum: Belgian case studies’, Museum & Society, 20 (1), 42-59.
• Teney C. & Hanquinet L. (2012) ‘High political participation, high social capital? A relational analysis of youth social capital and political participation’, Social Science Research, 41(5): 1213-26.
• Hanquinet L., Savage M. & Callier L. (2012).  Elaborating Bourdieu’s field analysis in urban studies: a cultural map of Brussels, Urban Geography, 33 (4), 508-529.
• Hanquinet L. (2011). ‘Quand les discours s’entrecroisent : ‘‘Sauvons le Montmartre bruxellois !’’, Sociologie et sociétés, 43(1) : 305-326.
• D. Jacobs, M. Swyngedouw, L. Hanquinet, V. Vandezande, R. Andersson, A. P. B. Horta, M. Berger, M. Diani, A. G., Ferrer, M. Giugni, M. Morariu, & P. Statham (2009). ‘The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe’, Journal of International Migration and Integration, 10: 67-88.