Researchers
Prof. Dr. Bert Broeckaert
E-mail: Bert.Broeckaert@theo.kuleuven.be
Curriculum Vitae
Bert Broeckaert (Lokeren, 1964) is a specialist in comparative religion and ethics and teaches comparative religion at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven. He is a member of the Research Unit Theological Ethics and of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion and Worldview (of which he was the first director from 2001 to 2008).
Bert Broeckaert has been ethical advisor to the Palliative Care Federation Flanders since 1999. From 2000 till 2004 he represented the Flemish Government in the Belgian Bioethics Advisory Commission. He was core group member of the European Pallium Project (EC), member of the EAPC (European Association for Palliative Care) expert group on prognostic factors and published i.a. several ethical and empirical studies on palliative care (including palliative sedation) and euthanasia and on the role played by religion and worldview at the end of life. In recent years his research focuses on the way world religions deal with death and dying and more particularly on the way they influence treatment decisions near the end of life.
In 2005 Bert Broeckaert was responsible for the scientific concept and content of the prestigious exhibition World Religions on Birth, Marriage and Death – The Belgian Story (Sint-Truiden, Belgium).
