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The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).

This Public Science Day is organised together with the City of Leiden. The influence of brain research on law, criminal law and criminal justice in particular, is undeniable and increasing. This influence is visible in various areas of criminal justice: investigation, prosecution & trial and the…

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast developing in recent years. AI already influences our daily lives: in (data) security, in what news we read or what we buy online. This influence on the way we live, view ourselves and do research will only increase in the future. The Faculty of Humanities,…

Lecture, Food for Thought

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The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the Netherlands were the reason for Anouk de Koning, Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to start working on a Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) application…

In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…

Thursday was World Hearing Day. During one of the Leiden2022 activities, visitors to Corpus Museum could learn all about ears and test whether theirs worked properly. How exactly does an ear work? What solutions are there for deaf people and what is a bionic ear?

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Due to the public transport strikes on the original date (9 september) this Research Seminar is postponed to Wednesday 14 September from 15.15 -17.00 hours.

No-one will deny the impact that a good ethnographic documentary can have on our understanding of the subjects (meant in terms of topic, theme and protagonists) of such a documentary, yet how do we define that understanding; what is it that we learn to understand about its subjects? How does this qualify…

Light is the main way we perceive the world. It is pure information that we can translate into what is happening around us. Astronomers have been using light to discover the secrets of the universe for centuries. Light comes in different shapes and sizes. Light can be all colours of the rainbow, give…

A mini-kidney? What is that? Scientists of the LUMC will show you through a microscope. A mini-kidney? Do you know what that is? Scientists of the LUMC are ready to show you today! Because: mini-kidneys are very important part of healing people. During this activity you can see a real miniature…

Three days in the autumn break entirely devoted to microscopy! Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, IBL (Institute of Biology) and the MARBLES project are joining forces to immerse you in the world of the super small.

Els de Busser (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs), Ayo Adedokun (LUC The Hague) and David Fontijn (Faculty of Archaeology) have been nominated for the LUS Teaching Prize 2020-2021.

IAt the Criminal Justice Public Lecture on 20 April, Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude spoke about her research into decisions and practice in relation to intra-Schengen border areas and the free movement of persons. The thinking behind the Schengen area is that where the external borders…

Wist je dat het op 1 november Dag van de Doden is? Voor veel culturen is dit een dag om stil te staan bij voorouders en vorige generaties. Kom naar deze activiteit en leer alles over archeologie en de dood. Op 1 november wordt de Dag van de Doden georganiseerd door het Laboratorium voor Menselijke…

Research

As a PhD candidate, you were primarily hired to do research, although you will probably also have to do some teaching. The partial University Teaching Qualification (Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs, BKO) certificate provides recognition that a PhD candidate has gained knowledge and experience as a teacher.…

A sustainable environment is one in which human society and the planet's biosphere can coexist for the long term. This long-term coexistence has been threatened in various ways since the early stages of modern human culture's development, but the situation has only recently come to affect human society…

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Research

Islamic banking, freedom of religion, LGBTQ+ acceptance and education are topics that European Muslims find important for their future. These are the results of a survey by Professor of Islam and the West, Maurits Berger. The survey is the starting point of a citizen project in which Berger wants to…

Wikipedia in the Classroom?! What We Miss by Viewing Wikipedia with Suspicion When I tell people that my Comenius Teaching Fellow grant has students writing for Wikipedia, I am often met with trepidation and suspicion. “That’s not ‘real’ research!” But Wikipedia is an ideal medium…

Pieter Slaman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and the University’s university historian, has won the 2024 LUS Teaching Prize.

ICT

As well as offering students a first-rate education, Leiden University provides a wide range of training for professionals, so they can be lifelong learners. And that is not just of value to participants. ‘As a university, you start a dialogue with society to achieve better knowledge together.’

The wars that Vietnam fought in the 20th century claimed millions of Vietnamese lives. An estimated 1.2 million died while fighting for the Vietnamese communist state and were recognized and honored as martyrs. Nearly half of these martyrs are either buried as unknown combatants in state-designated…

In this talk I explore some preliminary methodological and ethnographic considerations in relation to ongoing and contested urban regeneration schemes in Morocco. Specifically, I draw on the case of Zenata, a so-called ‘New Green City’ occupying 5 km of coast north of Casablanca, to explore how the…

One Indonesian transgender population known as warias, whose gendered mobility and kinship challenges the fixity of bureaucratic fictions, used the card to engage with the terms of recognition offered by the state.

On Friday 16 February 2024, Rudolf E. de Jong passed away unexpectedly in Cairo. Since 2012, he was the director of the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC), which he skillfully managed for 12 years. He was laid to rest in Amsterdam on 27 February. Rudolf was 65.

From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.

‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day. The icing on the cake were the poster presentations about the bachelor's theses, admired and commented on by scientists and fellow students. Teachers…

Conference

Higher education research improves the quality of education. And these investments more than pay for themselves in terms of well-being and prosperity. This is what Professor of Education Science Roeland van der Rijst will say in his inaugural lecture.

The ambitions of the Dutch Recognition & Rewards programme are widely supported by academics at Leiden University. This is one of the findings from the first Culture Barometer survey, carried out in early 2024.

Two of the three nominees for the Leiden Education Prize, or best teacher of 2020-2021, work at FGGA: Els de Busser (ISGA) and Ayo Adedokun (LUC). Both lecturers are very honoured with their nomination. The winner will be announced on Monday 6 September during the opening of the academic year.

How can we supply the growing world population with sustainable energy? At Laurens College in Rotterdam, Prof. Marc Koper speaks with the students about the crucial role of chemistry in the energy transition. Guest classes like this are a good way for school students to learn about the academic world,…

Course, Training

We are saddened by the news of the unexpected passing of prof.dr. Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld on 28 July 2021.

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Nieuwe medewerkers op de faculteit

Recognition and rewards. Open science. These topics are increasingly in the spotlight: globally, nationally and within our university. Who is working on these themes within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW)? Which steps are we already taking and what should we do next? These questions…