1,920 search results for “public safety” in the Public website
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Programme structure
The programme consists of four phases: conceptualisation, specialisation, electives and thesis.
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Awards and Grants 2024
On this page you will find an overview of awards and prizes granted to our staff and students in 2024, as well as special appointments at Leiden University and other institutions.
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NL Scholarship - Outgoing
Bachelor, Master
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Safe and Sustainable by Design framework for the next generation of Chemicals and Materials (SSbD4Chem)
How can the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework developed in the SSbD4CheM project facilitate the creation of safer and more sustainable chemicals and materials across various industries?
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Hit and Lead Optimization
The goal of hit and lead optimization is to optimize suitable chemical starting points that can modulate a drug target. The methods and technologies used are similar to those in Hit Discovery, but once the compound has shown activity in an animal model, it moves from 'hit' to 'lead.'
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About the programme
In the Global Conflict in the Modern Era specialisation of International Relations you will explore the security measures that have been instituted locally, regionally and globally in the modern world.
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Career prospects
With a MSc in Chemistry you are well prepared for a wide range of career opportunities. The chemical industry is one of the largest contributors to economic prosperity worldwide.
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Sexuality in the Renaissance. From dissertation to public book
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Measuring social exclusion in routine public health surveys
PhD defence
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New MOOC increases awareness of health care governance
In March 2019, the Institute for Public Administration launched the MOOC Population Health Governance, in collaboration with the LUMC at Leiden University. The MOOC was one of the first modules to became available at the Coursera platform, as part of the ongoing development of the new Master’s programme…
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What mobile phones mean for refugees
What do refugees use their mobile phones for? And what does it mean for aid workers in reception camps? The Leiden Centre for Innovation studied this issue together with researchers from Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Data & Society.
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Leiden students winner and nominee BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency Law
The BUREN Thesis Prize for Insolvency Law was awarded for the third time on 19 November 2020. Ilse van Vloten and Gijs de Koning, two Leiden students from the master’s programme Ondernemingsrecht, presented their research at the online award ceremony and were rewarded as winner and nominee respectiv…
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Mr. Claudiu Mihai Taiatu wins Diederiks-Verschoor Award 2017
We are very proud to announce that our alumnus Mr. Claudiu Mihai Taiatu (Adv. LL.M. student, year 2016-2017) has received the Diederiks-Verschoor Award 2017 in Melbourne, Australia for best paper, entitled ‘Space Traffic Management: Top Priority For Safety Operations’.
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Research on impact of community justice
No hearing in court, but at the community centre. Does this local approach help keep people with various problems such as debts or school absenteeism away from crime?
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Anne-laura van Harmelen about the 'Yes! No!' game over the term resilience
In Dutch magazine De Psycholoog, Anne-Laura van Harmelen talks about the use of the term resilience and argues that resilience is concept that needs further explanation.
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Bibi van den Berg about the digital war between Russia and the Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine plays out not only physically but also digitally. Van Den Berg, Professor of Cybersecurity Governance at the FGGA, talked about it at several news outlets.
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New website research programme Digital Society
On 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.
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Mark Leiser delivers report to Scottish Government’s Consultation
Dr Mark Leiser, Assistant Professor in Law and Digital Technologies, provided answers to the Scottish Government’s Consultation on Enhanced Oversight of Biometric Data for Justice and Community Safety Purposes.
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Anne-laura van Harmelen about growing up in war in Dutch magazine De Psycholoog
In Dutch magazine De Psycholoog, Anne-Laura van Harmelen talks about the impact traumatic experiences, especially for those who are growing up.
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The effect of nanoparticles on our planet
‘Solar panels, toothpaste and sport socks. What do these things have in common?’ Martina Vijver, professor of ecotoxicology begins her TEDx-talk. Watch her online lecture if you want to learn more about the effects of nano-particles on our environment and health.
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The impact of an open society on your security
Our world is constantly changing. Developments in the field of technology, data and society determine how we tackle security. This demands a new vision on security.
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ASEAN and Human rights
In the last weeks, ASEAN published different Statements about the human rights situation in Myanmar and the Democratic People´s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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NVIC soft reopening
Dear NVIC friends, As we are working towards a soft reopening of our institute and library, we have decided to open on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9 am to 3 pm, for a limited number of people, by personal appointment, from the 9th of September on.
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Dirkje Schinkelshoek, M.A. appointed as portfolio holder for Operational Management
With effect from 1 September, Dirkje Schinkelshoek, M.A., will succeed Gert-Jan van Helden, M.A., as member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Science in the position of portfolio holder for Operational Management.
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Successful LACDR Spring symposium 2018
On May 3rd, we had a successful LACDR Spring symposium. Traditionally the Spring symposium is an important platform for our PhD’s. We have highlighting the research activities of our PhD candidates. As Keynote speaker, Prof. dr. Matthias Mayer of the University of Heidelberg has given an interesting…
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Hoe kan de gemeente Leiden het contact met internationals verbeteren? Studenten Bestuurskunde zoeken het uit
Tweedejaars studenten van de Bachelor Bestuurskunde, track Bestuur Beleid en Organisatie (BBO), hebben tijdens het vak BBO II: Multi-level governance gewerkt aan een praktijkopdracht voor de gemeente Leiden. De bevindingen werden aan elkaar gepresenteerd tijdens een interactieve sessie.
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Getting to grips with invisible interests
With the childcare benefits scandal in the Netherlands, certain interests in society were hidden for long to politics and governance. With the farmers’ protests, on the other hand, the major economic and political interests at stake were hidden for long to society. In her inaugural lecture on 16 September,…
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Ukraine should continue to fight until all occupied territories are liberated
'The EU should not give way under pressure as the war continues,' writes Joris Larik, assistant professor of European law, in an opinion piece that was recently published in Dutch newspaper FD.
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Jason Rudall publishes book on responsibility for environmental damage
Jason Rudall, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has published a monograph entitled 'Responsibility for Environmental Damage'.
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Israël must alleviate plight of Palestinians now
The International Court of Justice has issued an interim ruling calling on Israel to take immediate action to prevent genocide. South Africa had accused Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention, which both countries are a party to. Professor of Public International Law Larissa…
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Arco Timmermans discusses the arrival of International Alert in The Hague
International peacebuilding organisation International Alert has moved to The Hague. Professor by special appointment Public Affairs Arco Timmermans understands very well why the organisation has chosen this city. Dutch radio show ‘De Ochtendspits’ hosted by BNR news radio asked him to elaborate.
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
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Public lecture "Air quality from space: indicator of human activity"
Lecture
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Public interview with Russian film critic Anton Dolin
Lecture
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What opportunities are lying in wait for veteran politician Pieter Omtzigt?
Omtzigt's new political party 'Nieuw Sociaal Contract' focuses on two key issues: livelihood security and good governance. A candidate list does not exist yet, a substantive programme does. What opportunities are lying in wait for the veteran politician? Dutch television programme Op1 put this question…
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Sophie Starrenburg organises workshop on climate change and cultural heritage
On 11 April 2024, Sophie Starrenburg, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organised a workshop on ‘Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Moving from Heritage Loss to Reparation’ at Tilburg Law School.
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Four Leiden professors appointed to KHMW
Four Leiden University professors have been appointed to The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Andrea Evers, Erwin Muller, Sjaak Neefjes and Menno Schilthuizen will be joining the oldest ‘learned society’ in the Netherlands.
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Successful Debt Counselling Requires Cooperation
More and more Dutch citizens are having to cope with debts at one time or other during their lives. Which is why the issue of debt counselling was selected as the central theme for the Leiden Leadership Lunch on Friday 27 September 2019.
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Digesting the EU elections over a continental breakfast
The topic of conversation at The Great Continental Breakfast the morning after the EU elections in the Netherlands was the election campaign, the – lacking? – constitutional basis of the EU and the Timmermans effect. ‘These were the most normal EU elections ever!’
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Nice to meet you Helen Duffy
Helen Duffy was appointed as the Gieskes Chair of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law last year. As the title suggests, her research, and to a large extent her teaching, focuses on how diverse areas of international law co-apply and interrelate.
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International Humanitarian Law Clinic Exchange Conference 2016
The Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum on International Humanitarian Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies hosted the second annual “International Humanitarian Law Clinic Exchange Conference”, from 8 to 14 December 2016, in The Hague. The idea to organize the conference stems from a collaboration…
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Eefje Cuppen Discusses Wind Energy Opposition in Dutch Podcast
Conflicts are good! According to Eefje Cuppen, Professor Governance of Sustainability at Leiden University's Institute of Public Administration. But what is the status of the energy transition? That is happening at a very slow pace here the Netherlands.
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Misha Plagis wins the International Studies Association, Human Rights Section Best Paper
Misha Plagis, assistant professor at the Grotius Centre of Public International Law wrote a paper together with Dr Nicole De Silva (Concordia University) entitled 'NGOs, international courts, and state backlash against human rights accountability: Evidence from NGO mobilization against Tanzania at the…
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Working better with LEAN: Faculty of Science works on change
Keep improving: that’s the philosophy of LEAN, a method to tackle practical problems at the workplace yourself. After a successful start in 2017, in 2019 a third group started working with the LEAN training in self-selected improvement trajectories. In October the participants received their diploma.…
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Is it possible to ban a political party?
Dutch right-wing political party Forum for Democracy has repeatedly demonstrated that it has no lower limit when it comes to morals. Should the courts in the Netherlands protect democracy by banning parties like Forum? Several legal experts from Leiden University commented on this question in newspaper…
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Four Leiden Scientists: 'Environmental risks of new pesticides with nanoparticles insufficiently examined'
The environmental risks of new pesticides containing nanoparticles are inadequately researched, according to four Leiden scientists in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology. They call for an examination of the long-term and environmental effects of pesticides containing nanoparti…
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Student for a Day Public Administration: International and European Governance (IE&G)
Study information
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Don't give foster children foster rights, give them children's rights
All children have rights, and so foster children also have rights. But when these rights are not observed, there are not many options available to foster children to assert their rights. PhD defence on 8 October 2020.
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Radboud University and Leiden University research ethnic profiling
A research team from Radboud University and Leiden University, led by senior researchers Prof. Masja van Meeteren (RU/UL), Dr Paul Mutsaers (RU) and Prof. Maartje van der Woude (UL), will examine what national and international research has really found about ethnic profiling by the police.
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Call for Papers: Jus Post Bellum and the Justice of Peace
The Jus Post Bellum Project is seeking submissions of academic research papers for presentation at the final project conference on ‘Jus Post Bellum and the Justice of Peace’ on 29-30 September 2016 in The Hague.