1,522 search results for “social decision making” in the Public website
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Heritage Education — Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum
As part of Nexus 1492 Subproject 4: A Future for Diverse Caribbean Heritages, which seeks to shed light on how local communities interpret and engage with heritage in the present day, this doctoral study aims to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social…
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Geriatrics and Ageing in the Soviet Union: Medical, Political and Social Contexts
This open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book focus on concepts and themes that analyse Soviet ageing…
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Pre-Trial Detention in the Dutch Juvenile Justice System
To what extent is the legislation and use of pre-trial detention of juveniles in the Netherlands in compliance with international children’s rights standards?
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Floske Spieksma appointed professor of Stochastic Decision Theory
As of 1 June, Floske Spieksma has been appointed Professor at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. Her field of study is Stochastic Decision-Making. Within this field, researchers develop mathematical techniques to analyse and improve processes within organisations. ‘As a professor, I hope to safeguard…
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Markets, Ethics and Agency: Changing Land Utilization and Social Transformation in the Uplands of Northeast India
This project explores the decline of shifting cultivation in Northeast India. What is the impact on society of people’s deepening engagement with markets and the state?
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Postponement of the Congress on the Social Benefits of Higher Education to the autumn
The organising committee of the congress 'Social Benefits of Higher Education' has decided to postpone the congress.
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'True populist Matteo Salvini makes clever use of social media'
Turbulent times in Italy: Deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini wants new elections so that he can become prime minister himself. He is campaigning on social media, including photos of himself posing in his swimming trunks.
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Decision-free municipality administration causes loophole in legal protection
Municipalities are increasingly attempting to solve problems without issuing decisions. A notification procedure (notification – investigation – application – decision) has recently been introduced that replaces part of the traditional application procedure. Ymre Schuurmans, Professor of Constitutional…
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Technologies and social agency of painted plaster in the East Mediterranean Bronze Age
This project explored the role of material culture, in casu painted plaster and its technologies, in expressing dynamic social identities and in forging complex interwoven human relationships in the context of the Middle to Late Bronze Age of the Aegean and East Mediterranean.
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Special Issue: Missions, Powers and Arabization in Social Sciences and Missions
This is a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal 'Social Sciences and Missions', which provides a forum for exploration of the social and political influence of Christian missions worldwide.
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Social Injustice, Disadvantaged Offenders, and the State’s Authority to Punish
Andrei Poama, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, published a piece in the journal of Political Philosophy about social injustice, disadvantaged offenders and the state's authority to punish.
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Lithic Technology, Social Agency and Cultural Interaction in the Bronze Age Aegean
LiTechAe: Percussive stone tools related to stone masonry techniques seen through experimentation and use-wear analysis.
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International courts in an era of smartphones and social media – improving human rights accountability?
Videos shared on social media have become important evidence to hold perpetrators of human rights violations accountable. What does this increased use of digital open source evidence mean for the quality of international human rights accountability? Through an innovative experimental design, this project…
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Working on Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
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Worsening problems with rules on tax authorities’ information decisions
Inspectors at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration can require people to provide more information relating to their tax returns. Esther Huiskers-Stoop from the Tax Law department investigated the rules in place to protect us when we are required to provide information to the tax authorities.
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Pre-Columbian social organisation and interaction interpreted through the study of settlement patterns
An archaeological case-study of the Pointe des Châteaux, La Désirade and Les Îles de la Petite Terre micro-region, Guadeloupe, F.W.I.
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Making educational innovations practical for teachers
How to make educational innovations practical for teachers
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Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise.
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To wind up changed: Assessing the value of social conflict on onshore wind energy in transforming institutions in the Netherlands
In this article, Annemiek de Looze and Eefje Cuppen, investigated empericallly if and how social conflict leads to institutional change.
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Taking Place: Parrhesiastic practices of social transformation within local forms of theatricality
How can theatricality act as a mediating process between public space and public as ‘audience’? Does the presence of an observer change the nature of the observed and if so, how?
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Breaking and making the ancestors
Piecing together the urnfield mortuary process in the Lower-Rhine-Basin, ca. 1300 - 400 BC
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A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016
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Making cards: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
z.sjoerds@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5437
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Leiden University receives gift for research into psychology of economic behaviour
Leiden University has received a gift of over 2m euros from the Utopa Foundation for its Department of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology. The gift will be used to set up a Psychology and Economic Psychology research and teaching fund. There will also be a new knowledge centre, which will…
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Psychologists receive grant for social anxiety research
“We are proud and happy to receive this grant. It will enable us to do truly innovative fundamental research with a direct link to practical applications.” Michiel Westenberg is looking forward to investigate the effects of age and social anxiety on eye-contact. Together with Esther van den Bos he has…
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Social Science Matters: Housing
Students, first-time buyers, parents with stay-at-home children, migrants in need of a house; the problems in the housing market affect many layers within the society. The lack of housing is a growing problem. How does this affect our behaviour and the way we think about 'living' ? What are the consequences…
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Inclusive education - Making the change
Didactics
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Co-Med prompts call for legislation on bankruptcies that have major social impact
The trustees handling the bankruptcy of Dutch GP chain Co-Med are facing difficult dilemmas. Who is first in line: patients, employees or creditors? Assistant Professor Jessie Pool, an expert in insolvency law, calls for insolvency procedures that are better geared to this type of bankruptcy.
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Islamic burials in the Netherlands and Belgium. Legal, religious and social aspects
Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany defended her thesis on 16 September 2014.
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Eveline Crone in Social Sciences Council
From 1 January 2017, Professor of neurocognitive developmental psychology Eveline Crone has been appointed member of the Social Sciences Council of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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Making fuels from sunlight and CO2
Plants could be regarded as small chemical factories, which produce chemical substances via photosynthesis. If we can imitate photosynthesis in an artificial system, we can make clean fuels and materials out of sunlight and CO2. Huub de Groot is very close to designing a system of this kind.
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State, Society and Labour: A Social History of Iranian Textile workers, 1906-1941
This research investigates everyday lives and workplace experiences of Iranian workers employed at textile industry, which was the second biggest industry after oil following the latter’s discovery in 1908.
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Retrieving the Past Glory: Social Memory, Transnational Networks and Christianity in Contemporary China
Jifeng Liu defended his thesis on 2 February 2017
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Sarita Koendjbiharie
Faculty of Humanities
s.r.koendjbiharie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9535
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Stefan Thewissen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.h.thewissen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7756
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Esther Mertens
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.c.a.mertens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jim Been
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.been@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8569
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Sanne Kellij
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.kellij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Szilvia Biro
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
sbiro@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4815
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Bo Terpstra
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
b.l.terpstra@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7855
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Marcella Pavias
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.pavias.2@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4895
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Vincent Walstra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
v.r.walstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Evin Aktar
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.aktar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5228
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Anne Heyer
Faculty of Humanities
a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1121
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Iris Koele
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.j.koele@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sandy Overgaauw
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.overgaauw@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Zi Ye
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
z.ye@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Xueting Zhang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
x.zhang@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Zwijnenberg: what makes us human?
Advanced biotechnology allows us to select or alter the genetic makeup of human embryos. What limits do we impose on biotechnological intervention in nature and the human body? And whose call is that?