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Painting with Acrylics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Specters of Cavafy
Haunting the future through poetry
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RELIANCE: Hands-on Training School on ASTRA Toolbox and Dynamic Imaging
Course
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Career prospects
Many students receive their first job offer during or right after their Business Studies internship. After graduating you can also aim for a career in Astronomy research.
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Welfare receipt, labor participation and crime
Recent welfare reforms in the Netherlands show a trend of reducing welfare accessibility and increasing obligations. Although the effects thereof on directly-targeted economic outcomes, such as welfare dependency and labor participation, are often assessed, potential spillovers to other economic and…
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The potters’ perspectives
A vibrant chronological narrative of ceramic manufacturing practices in the valley of Juigalpa, Chontales, Nicaragua (cal 300 CE - present)
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PhD candidate in Network Science
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Students work with local community
Problems cannot always be solved from a desk. Students on the Master’s in Governance of Sustainability therefore went to various Leiden neighbourhoods, where they tackled topics such as litter, urban biodiversity and green spaces.
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Valuing ecosystems - Marie Curie grant for Rosaleen March
Ecologist Rosaleen March from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) will carry on her research on functional biodiversity: a measure to assign value to ecosystems. Following her previous Marie Curie co-fund, she now receives a full Marie Curie fellowship. March: ‘We need to know how losing biodiversity…
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Alumna Sytske Besemer on living and working abroad
This month's flash interview is with alumna Sytske Besemer, Criminologist, who works at a startup called Cradle. Sytske has specifically chosen to work for a company with societal impact. And she is about to move again, this time to Zürich.
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Text-mining real-world data to evaluate systemic anti-cancer therapy
PhD defence
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Bridging the gap between clinical trials and real-world for advanced melanoma
PhD defence
- Volume 12 (2017)
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‘Human trafficking is a huge grey area’
Human trafficking is much more than kidnapping and selling people. Those who commit labour exploitation can, for example, also be sentenced for human trafficking. Criminologist Masja van Meeteren hopes to simplify the complexity of the phenomenon by charting the different forms of labour exploitati…
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Dr. Jatna Supriatna appointed as visiting scholar at Faculty of Science
During his visit on 12 April 2016, Dr. Jatna Supriatna was appointed as visiting scholar at the Faculty of Science of the Universiteit Leiden. Dr. Supriatna is a biologist, and is a senior lecturer at Universitas Indonesia’s Department of Biology. His appointment was made in the context of increasing…
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Record number of first-year students for Leiden Biology
150 new Biology students have arrived in Leiden. This is more than ever and we seem to settle among the big three Universities for Biology in the Netherlands.
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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How to share responsibility for polluting the atmosphere?
In our globalised economy, goods and services are frequently produced abroad. Is it the producer or the consumer that should be held responsible for greenhouse gas emissions associated with production? Together with colleagues from Berlin, Hauke Ward of the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)…
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Difficult message for policymakers from two Leiden reports on circular economy
You should start working now, and the positive results will only be seen long after your term has expired. That is just about the worst thing you can say to politicians and policymakers. Yet that is exactly the message of two recent reports on sustainable resource use from the Centre for Environmental…
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The work of abyss and time: towards an emancipatory poetics of the tropics and critical autoethnographic practices of research within media art
This doctoral project by artist and educator Luiz Zanotello engenders a postcolonial understanding of time, space and movement by means of artistic research methods. The project examines the contradictory effects of the abyssal line of thought within the tropics as a starting point.
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Producing all our food nationally: is it even possible?
According to a new study, for half of the world population the answer would be yes. For the other half: maybe? Leiden environmental researcher and head author Nicolas Navarre explains: ‘With improvements to crop yields, reductions in food waste, and changes in consumption patterns, 90% of people could…
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Call for Papers: H2OLAW Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law
We are pleased to invite abstracts for the conference ‘H2OLAW – Law-Science Interfaces within the Law of the Sea and Fresh Water Law’ hosted by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University. The conference will take place on 26 and 27 September 2024 at Leiden University in the…
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Arnold Tukker receives honorary doctorate at Swedish university
As one of the first environmental scientists ever, Arnold Tukker received the honorary doctorate at Linköping University on Saturday 12 November. This Swedish university awarded Tukker for his scientific work to establish a circular economy.
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Leaving a Lasting Impression. The Impact of Incunabula on Late Medieval Spirituality, Religious Practice and Visual Culture in the Low Countries
This project investigates how the first generation of Dutch printed books (the incunabula, 1473-1501) affected late medieval spirituality, religious practice and visual culture in the Low Countries.
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Why do MPs work, when their electoral survival is not at stake?
MPs in the Netherlands are first and foremost motivated by their direct environment, i.e. the parliamentary and partisan institutions.
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Occupational health in the Emergency Department: A study on work-related factors and health/well-being in nurses and doctors in 19 Emergency Departments
Occupational health in the Emergency Department
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong on Vanuatu resolution on addressing the climate crisis
Vanuatu, a Pacific island state vulnerable to rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms, initiated a resolution to be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday 29 March 2023.
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Staying positive and connected: Work hubs and the alternative coffee date
'Getting used to things, doesn't necessarily mean it's getting easier. That's why we're incredibly impressed by what everyone has accomplished.' How do our institutes stay connected and motivated? Lenneke Alink (Pedagogical Sciences) and Ed Noijons (CWTS) share how pub quizzes and who's who games, new…
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LCCP Working seminar spring 2022
The seminar is dedicated to the work-in-progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. The paper is sent in advance and discussed in the meeting. The seminar is open to all. Venue: Lecture room or zoom.
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Finding resolution for the Middle to Later Stone Age transition in South Africa
This project investigates the causes of the major archaeological change in the period of 40.000-20.000 BC in South Africa.
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Liveable Planet
Crises like climate change and loss of biodiversity threaten our planet. That’s why sustainability is an important topic in research and education across Leiden University. On this website you read how scientists from many disciplines work together in researching sustainability.
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Previous Winners
On this page you can learn more about the history of our Faculty Awards and view the previous winners.
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Rethinking Humanities Research through the Increasing Ubiquity of Environmental Questions'
Conference
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Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
Caspar Reuvens, the world’s first Professor of Archaeology, was a prominent classical scholar and from his appointment in 1818 onwards Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology has been an important field of research in Leiden.
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Host community compensation
Can the offering of host community compensation help to prevent or solve siting controversies, and if so, why and under which conditions?
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LCA of Printed and E-paper Documents
Comparing the global warming potential (GWP) of the service provided by an iRex Digital Reader to the same service provided by an office printer using a scanning LCA.
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Thrips resistance in Gladiolus: an eco-metabolomic approach
Breeding for resistance becomes more and more important because we want to reduce the use of pesticides. A fast and cheap alternative can be to make use of morphological or chemical markers.
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
On 25 January 2024 H.J. Pak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Impact assessment modelling of matter-less stressors in the context of Life Cycle Assessment
Promotores: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo & Dr. R. Heijungs
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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion
An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.
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Spatial populations with seed-bank
In populations with a seed-bank, individuals can temporarily become dormant and refrain from reproduction until they can become active again. The repository of all dormant individuals in the population is called the seed-bank. Seed-banks are observed in many taxa, including plants, bacteria and other…
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Boetian Landscapes
A GIS-based study for the reconstruction and interpretation of the archaeological datasets of ancient Boeotia
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The potential of intangible loss: reassembling heritage and reconstructing the social in post-disaster Japan
Attitudes towards cultural heritage have long been characterised by an ‘endangerment sensibility’ concerned with preventing losses. Recently, however, critical heritage scholars have argued that loss can be generative, facilitating the formation of new values and attachments. Their arguments have focused…
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Programme
On this page the programme and sessions can be found. The programme will be updated regularly.
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Simulating the birth environment of circumstellar discs
Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.
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Politicization, Bureaucratic Legalism, and Innovative Attitudes in the Public Sector
Previous studies have identified institutional, organizational, and individual factors that promote innovation in public organizations. Yet they have overlooked how the type of public administration—and the type of administrators—is associated with innovative attitudes.