904 search results for “mixed methods” in the Public website
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High media coverage of innovative research presenting a new method for recovering ancient human DNA
Since the publication of the article in the interdisciplinary journal Nature, over 200 news outlets have showcased the pioneering research.
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Korean Studies (BA)
If you really want to understand East Asia, you can't overlook Korea. At the Bachelor's programme Korean Studies at Leiden University you will discover a fascinating mix of age-old traditions and modern customs through intensively studying culture, history and language.
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Teaching speaking skills in foreign languages with a practical, adaptive method
Tailoring teaching to students’ learning needs in speaking skills in modern foreign languages is desirable, but difficult to achieve in regular classes in secondary schools. Esther de Vrind, PhD, manager and teacher educator at ICLON, developed a method to make this easier. Defence on 25 November.
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New method for extracting human DNA from archaeological objects yields success
An international team of researchers led by Leiden archaeology professor Marie Soressi and Leipzig senior geneticist Matthias Meyer has recovered the DNA of a woman belonging to an Ancient North Eurasian population from a 20,000-year-old pendant. This is the first time DNA analysis has been used to…
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Pathways to a fertile valley. On methods and methodologies in artistic research
ACPA alumni Falk Hübner and Joost Vanmaele aim to put up a few signposts in the expansive field of artistic research with an article recently published on FORUM+ .
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'
In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teacher is always open to feedback from students.'
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The Activating Podcast Method: engaging students with the help of blended learning
How can I get students to collaborate more and increase their engagement? That was the question that teacher, and winner of the 2022 Faculty Teaching Award, Astrid Van Weyenberg asked herself two years ago. Her solution? A method in which the use of podcasts ensures that students actively engage with…
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Tom Louwerse
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.p.louwerse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Statistical Science
The research programme Statistical Science is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of masses of data, the quantification of uncertainty using probability models, and the development and benchmarking of algorithms and methods with these aims.
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Pair configurations to molecular activity coefficients: PAC-MAC
This thesis provides an overview of the development of the Pair Configuration to Molecular Activity Coefficient (PAC-MAC) model.
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New measuring method reveals: more plastic ón than ín your salad
It's now possible to measure how many plastic particles there are in our food. Chinese scientists and Leiden professor Willie Peijnenburg applied their new method to lettuce and wheat. Their results were published January 20 in Nature Nanotechnology.
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Work-in-Progress seminar at the Center of Multimodal and Audio-Visual Methods (ReCNTR)
Team ReCNTR gives feedback on the Food Citizens? I-doc
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HAPPY - Qualitative research in Higher education teaching APProaches for sustainabilitY and well-being in Bhutan
This 3-year EU Erasmus+ co-funded project focuses on the strengthening and improvement of teaching qualitative research methods across a range of disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Bhutan.
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lunch seminar: Eve Darian-Smith and Phil McCarty on Global Studies Methods
Eve Darian-Smith and Phil McCarty presented their book 'The Global Turn Theories, Research Designs, and Methods for Global Studies' during a book presentation seminar.
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UnMiSSeD - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates
UnMiSSeD studies the interaction between misinformation and science in societal debates using a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach.
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Programme structure
The master's specialisation Methodology and Statistics in Psychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory and elective courses, a thesis and an internship.
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Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence
This interdisciplinary study focuses on (trans)national ethnic and popular networks, combining historical-ethnographic and computational methods to understand the ‘workings’ of networked conflict interfering in the increasingly violent conflict in the Sahel (Africa) and beyond. The project focuses on…
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LCN2 Seminar: Mixing of random walks on dynamic graphs with a fixed degree sequence
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Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology
In the article Multimodality: Reshaping Anthropology, Mark Westmoreland describes how multimodality provides anthropologists with a new perspective on how we conduct research, produce scholarship, teach students, and interact with diverse audiences.
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The magic of projection : augmentation and immersion in media art
Sophie Ernst’s doctoral thesis is an artist’s contribution to media art theory.
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Louise Jawerth Lab
Research in the Jawerth lab focuses on using principles from soft condensed matter physics to understand important biological materials.
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Systems pharmacology-based translational drug pharmacokinetics
High-throughput holistic preclinical screens are increasingly used in drug discovery, to assess both drug efficacy and drug safety.
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City and student life
Leiden is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life. And as a growing and internationally oriented student city, The Hague offers a great mix for a fabulous student experience.
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About the programme
The one-year Master’s in International Relations offers an exciting and challenging mix of theoretical knowledge and practical experience.
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Transformations in global climate finance
Climate finance, especially for developing countries, is crucial for limiting global warming to 1.5C. However, the current level of North -South climate finance is chronically inadequate. As the climate crisis intensifies, more actors are entering the climate finance market, transforming the global…
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Dutch scientists introduce an improved method to identify salt tolerant crops
Soil salinity is affecting large areas in the world and millions of farmers are faced with decreasing yields and many are even forced to migrate . Dutch scientists (Prof Dr. Gerrit van Straten (Wageningen University), Prof. Dr. Peter van Bodegom (Leiden University), Prof. Dr. Jelte Rozema (VU University…
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Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude
On Friday 24 March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) will deliver the monthly Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture.
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Motivational signals in public sector job advertisements and how they relate to attracting and hiring candidates
This article examines how motivational signals in job advertisements relate to public employers’ recruitment success.
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‘Lecturers have to have time and room to experiment with new teaching methods’
Motivated, innovative lecturers are the driving force behind our teaching. Thijs Porck is a lecturer in Medieval English at the Leiden Centre for the Arts in Society. He passed the Senior Teaching Qualification at the end of last year. ‘As a lecturer, it’s good to keep thinking about what motivates…
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Lewis Borck's Leiden experience: "Theories and methods brought me in first"
One and half years ago, Lewis Borck exchanged the arid and hot Southwest of the USA for the Netherlands. While an expert in Ancestral Pueblo and Hohokam archaeology, he switched to the Caribbean as a researcher in the NEXUS 1492 project. “Theories and methods brought me in first.”
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Michael Meffert
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.f.meffert@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Open for Registration: Leiden Global Lecture Series for PhD and Research Master’s students
Discipline and Place in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, with these fields taken to include archaeology and law, is an annual lecture series for PhD and Research Master’s students at LeidenGlobal partner institutions. Previous editions have received highly favorable evaluations. Application for…
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Studying Ghana’s civil service
Bureaucrats appointed based on merit are not necessarily more professional or autonomous than those who have been, for instance, ‘politically installed’. Furthermore, patronage does not only have negative effects. These are two conclusions reached by Abdul-Nasir Abubakar, PhD candidate at Leiden University’s…
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Speckmann prizes 2016
On Monday 15 February 2016 the annual Speckmann Prizes were granted at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology. BA-studenten Laura Bakker, Kimberly Drijver and Martijn Kooijman were awarded for the best Fieldwork NL project; Rosi Aryal was honoured for having written the best…
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Stieltjes Prize: best Mathematical thesis prize for PhD student Ziyang Gao
Ziyang Gao received the Stieltjes Prize from Koen Becking, chairman of the Executive Board, for his thesis 'The mixed Ax-Lindemann theorem and its applications to the Zilber-Pink conjecture'.
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant
A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogonal architectural features, taking place in the archaeological context of the northern extremities of the Andean, part of the Istmo-Colombian Area.
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[sbb] Launching Next-Generation Products in a Competitive Market
When to launch a next-generation product in a competitive market and how much capacity should be allocated to it
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Tiempo, Religión y Discursos Sagrados del Pueblo Ayuuk
Time, Religion and Sacred Discourses of the Ayuuk People
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Dance
The Leiden Academic Course Center offers a large variety of dance courses on many different levels. Quality is of paramount importance to LAK and this is reflected in our professional and enthusiastic teachers. At the end of each course semester there is the possibility to perform in a theatre during…
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Research
Research in the POD-group addresses all features of random phenomena – modelling, structuring, analysis, control, optimisation – and covers both fundamental and applied aspects.
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The conflict of the faculties : perspectives on artistic research and academia
This dissertation addresses the position of artistic research within academia.
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Gaming at school
How well children learn depends to a large extent on good teachers and effective learning materials. Wilfried Admiraal investigates such issues as gaming as a modern learning tool. He concludes that this tool has little to offer less talented students.
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Reintegrating jihadist extremists: evaluating a Dutch initiative
In 2012, the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism and the Dutch Probation Service launched a reintegration project for offenders on probation or parole who were (suspected to be) involved in jihadist extremism or terrorism. The initiative's primary goal was to reduce the chance…
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PLGA-based particulate vaccine delivery systems for immunotherapy of cancer
Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp
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Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe
In the Brill series Intersections a new volume has been published, entitled Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe.
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Soft condensed matter
What are the mysteries behind soft condensed matter?
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Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation reduces spontaneous but not induced negative thought intrusions in high worriers
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) was tested in chronic worriers. tVNS may reduce spontaneously occurring negative thought intrusions. After a worry induction, there was no longer an effect of tVNS. tVNS did not affect physiological responding to worrying.
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
Complex Organic Molecules (COMs) have been detected in objects across different stages of stellar evolution.