449 search results for “women s movement” in the Staff website
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How the eating habits of a limited group of Americans determine sustainability
Masses of hamburgers, steaks, cheese and a lot of eggs: Americans love their animal products. But researcher Oliver Taherzadeh discovered that only a relatively small group of high-volume consumers need to modify their diet to achieve an enormous environmental gain.
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’
From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science as the common denominator. The university’s Data Science Research Programme (DSO) has proven so successful that after five years on a start-up grant it…
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Opening Academic Year
Academic ceremony
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Is a cancer pill a matter of time?
A cancer pill, preferably without severe side effects, is something we’d all welcome. Is it a matter of time before such a pill is a reality? We put this question to three Leiden researchers and asked how they themselves are contributing to new cancer treatments.
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Friend or foe? The role of AI in mitigating biases in HR
AI is already widely being used in HR processes, but it’s unclear whether these applications contribute to fair and inclusive decision making. Leiden researcher Carlotta Rigotti is involved in BIAS, a big consortium research project that aims to provide answers and develop a new, trustworthy AI app…
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JUL’s Karaoke Night
Activity
- Healthy University Week 2023
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OSCoffee: Introducing the Leiden Academia in Motion programme
Lecture
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OSCoffee: Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing
Lecture
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Guest lecture by 113 on suicide prevention
Lecture
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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What is happening in Yemen?
Debate
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Regulation of signal transduction pathways by hypoxia in breast cancer subtypes
PhD defence
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Opening academic year
University ceremony
- Meet the Dean - PhD's
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How cells determine the fate of proteins (and can we do it too?)
Cells in our bodies are often threatened by errors in our own proteins. The FLOW consortium, comprising scientists from various institutions including Leiden, is poised to meticulously map out for the first time how cells control proteins, correcting or removing faulty ones. This endeavour holds promise…
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Let's Play Quantum Games
Lecture
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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New Year's Reception Faculty of Science
Conference
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Let’s Connect webinar: Open communication
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What's Next? - Alumni in Tech
Lecture
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Let's Connect: webinar The Active Bystander
Communication, Personal development
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Remarkable PhD research: diagnosing sepsis in premature babies
How can we diagnose the life-threatening condition sepsis in premature babies as quickly and accurately as possible? That is what PhD student Manchu Thangavelu from the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) wants to figure out.
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SAILS Mini-Symposium on Legal Search Technologies
Lecture
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Playing with words
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Travelers defense course for female staff members
Personal development
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Data Management Plan course for PhD's
Didactics, Career development
- LACDR Townhall meeting & LACDR New Year's drinks
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FWN Let's Move: 3 June - 28 June 2024
Festival, Sport
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Public lecture: 'The ocean’s role in mitigating climate change'
Lecture
- Warm Welcome: Let’s Kickstart this Academic Year Together
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'Vital Minds’: Healthy University Week 2022
Course
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Bitterling Fish
PhD defence
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Third meeting of Leiden University's Being the First student network
Thematic Meeting Being the First
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’
She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawyer Natacha Harlequin learned in her student days in Leiden. ‘What I personally think of the alleged act doesn’t matter so much.’
- Putting the open engagement of societal actors into practice
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Panel discussion Bias in AI, algorithms, and the tech sector - Young Alumni Network
Alumni event
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Staff symposium on student well-being – A shared path to well-being: students and staff
Conference
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference