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Vision
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) at Leiden University aims to advance knowledge and practice on how we govern – and could govern – major world-scale changes in contemporary society. These global transformations include hegemonic and other geopolitical shifts, ecological changes,…
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About the Psychology Lab on Wheels
In the Psychology Lab on Wheels, we conduct innovative research together with citizens. We drive our mobile lab to people all over the country helping to bridge the gap between science and society.
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Diversity and inclusion at the faculties
The D&I Expertise Office works closely with the faculties of Leiden University.
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Academic Integrity & Ethics Review
Scientific integrity is an essential element in the PhD trajectory and is addressed in several different settings.
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Development & Disease in Animal Sciences
Animal Sciences’ contributions to the Development & Disease research theme include the mechanisms and evolution of embryonic development, the development of cognitive mechanisms, and animal models for understanding mechanisms of human disease.
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Lab facilities Economic Decision Making
How do individuals make decisions? What determines the quality of group decisions? When and why do people cooperate with others? How does intergroup competition evolve?
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PhD subsidy
As a PhD candidate you can declare costs that are related to the graduation formalities.
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Feeling safe at the university
Our university community is the heart of our academy. It is very important for Leiden University that our staff and studentsenjoy coming here to work and study and are able to carry out their activities without any hindrance.
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PhD research at two universities
In some cases, PhD candidates are permitted to follow a PhD track that involves conducting research and receiving supervision at two institutions: Leiden University and another university. There are two arrangements of joint supervision.
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Peer feedback in teacher professional development
This dissertation set out to provide both an integrated framework for the practices of teacher peer feedback and an in-depth understanding of teacher peer feedback in the Chinese vocational education context.
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Admission to the Graduate School
All PhD candidates must be admitted to the Graduate School.
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Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods
Illustrations of the challenges and rewards of doing and representing interdisciplinary research through the methodological developments of 50 experienced researchers.
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English language check
Publishing about your research is a key aspect of your career as a researcher; the majority of research publications are written in English. When applying for research funding, too, it is very important to ensure that your application is written in clear, accessible English. Maria Sherwood-Smith, Academic…
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Hidden Complexities of the Frankish Castle
Social Aspects of Space in the Configurational Architecture of Frankish Castles in the Holy Land, 1099-1291
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Genetic, biochemical and neural correlates of vulnerability to depression.
How do genetic and environmental factors make us vulnerable to depression?
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Research
LUCIR aims to bundle together, strengthen and disseminate existing research in the field of international relations.
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Lab facilities Clinical Neurodevelopmental Studies
Neurobiological, cognitive and behavioural measurements of normal and abnormal child development.
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Programme structure
This programme is aimed at students who have a strong interest in programming and computer science, as well as an interest in the cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.
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Representative Bureaucracy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
How and to what extent does AI affect citizen representation in public service delivery and state-citizen interactions?
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LUCRIS/Converis Graduate School Management module
The Graduate School Management (GSM) module is a registration and monitoring module for you and your supervisor(s). All information is stored in a uniform way and made accessible in one place. Converis is the software behind LUCRIS.
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Board of Deans
The deans (chairs of the faculty boards) form the Board of Deans, which is chaired by the Rector Magnificus.
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Register your output and activities in LUCRIS
Have you ever wondered how you can increase the visibility, accessibility, and recognition of your research while complying with funding and national requirements? LUCRIS is the answer!
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Contact
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Career prospects
This master specialisation is ideally suited as a basis for starting a research career at a university or research institute and for a position in a bioscience-based company.
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Contact your faculty AiM team with suggestions
Would you like Leiden University to be a more open workplace that recognizes and rewards all contributions, and an institution that creates and shares knowledge more freely with society?
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Interdisciplinary research and teaching at Leiden University
Many of the challenges of our time are too complex to be resolved within the confines of a single discipline. Leiden University is a broad-based university where an incredible number of research fields converge. That makes us the ideal breeding ground for, and practitioners of, interdisciplinary research…
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Theoretical Linguistics
Studying the underlying principles of the nature of language.
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Syntax
Syntacticians study how words combine into larger units (phrases and sentences) in human languages and how the combinatorial possibilities determine word order and grammatical relations between parts of a sentence.
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Electrical and magnetic properties of ferritin: electron transport phenomena and electron paramagnetic resonance
Ferritin is a spherical metalloprotein, capable of storing and releasing iron in a controllable way. It is composed of a protein shell of about 12 nm and within its cavity, iron is stored in a mineral form.
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Lab facilities EEG
Measurement of brain activity by external electrodes (EEG).
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Research
Currently, Navigation Lab Leiden works on three main themes: navigation ability, spatial abilities, novel techniques in neuropsychology.
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Do common antibiotic treatments influence emotional processing?
People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerina Johnson and assistant professor Laura Steenbergen. This may explain how antibiotics increase the risk of developing depression.
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Interpersonal effects of emotions in negotiations
How do different emotional expressions influence the behavior of other people in negotiations?
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Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences Leiden University
The group Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences has expertise in individual differences in child development, in particular the development of psychopathology, ranging from mild to severe neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Liberation Day festival
The 80,000 visitors to the Liberation Day Festival in The Hague on 5 May can learn about 444-year-old Leiden University at a range of interactive events on Malieveld and in the Dutch Parliament.
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Cognitive and motivational components of adaptive and maladaptive decision-making: an integrative approach
How do cognitive, motivational, and affective processes interact to select actions?
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The neurobiology of depression and the relation between stress, mental health, ageing and chronic illness
I want to understand the overlap between physical health, mental health, and healthy aging and whether/how stress (behaviorally and biologically) may tie these concepts together.
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Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping
This project aims to investigate the underlying (neurocognitive) linguistic processes of ellipsis resolution, particularly gapping.
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Products and downloads
Here you can find products and research tools developed by the Navigation Lab Leiden
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CoSTREAM: Understanding Stroke and Alzheimer
The Horizon 2020 project CoSTREAM aims to improve our understanding of the co-occurrence of stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. It has long been known that both diseases share underlying causes, but their exact interaction or link is not fully understood. CoSTREAM combines multiple factors to identify and…
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Research
Research in the group Clinical Neurodevelopmental Sciences is focused on understanding and influencing developmental mechanisms in children and adolescents.
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Systems pharmacology of the amyloid cascade
According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides initiates the pathological cascade in Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Chemical tools to modulate endocannabinoid biosynthesis
Promotor: H.S. Overkleeft, Co-promotor: M. van der Stelt
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Perception of multidimensional speech sounds in humans and songbirds
Do humans and zebra finches share cognitive mechanisms that are important for speech perception?
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Systems pharmacology of the endocannabinoid system
In this thesis, a system pharmacology approach, integrating metabolomics, pharmacology and chemical biology, was applied to understand and modulate the endocannabinoid system across different model systems (cells, zebrafish, mice and humans).
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Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the US
This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States.
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Leukemia treatment & cognitive development
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Astrolinguistics
Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic
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Parkinson’s protein α-synuclein: membrane interactions and fibril structure
The thesis describes the use of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, in continuous wave and pulse modes, to address the interaction of α-Synuclein (αS) with membranes and the aggregation of αS.