344 search results for “expertise and policy-making” in the Staff website
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Sanneke Kuipers appointed professor of Crisis Governance: 'Crises arise from very mundane causes'
The Executive Board appointed Sanneke Kuipers as full professor effective January 1, 2022. Her chair is Crisis Governance. She combines this chair with her position as education director of ISGA, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. A conversation about working 24/7 in crisis management, her…
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Interview Anneke Koning: PhD research on transnational sexual exploitation of children
Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away from 'suspicious situations’ while turning a blind eye to the root causes of the problem themselves. Koning, who recently obtained her PhD on transnational sexual exploitation of children from Leiden…
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Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten win the LUCAS Public Engagement Award 2023
The LUCAS Impact Committee, consisting of Jan van Dijkhuizen, Rick Honings, Casper de Jonge, Angus Mol, Thijs Porck and Aafje de Roest, has offered this year’s LUCAS Public Engagement Award to Dorine Schellens and Peter Verstraten.
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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PhD candidate Sinéad is a Europaeum Scholar: ‘There’s no other programme quite like this’
Sinéad Mulcahy recently started the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership course for a group of thirty talented and committed PhD candidates from universities across Europe. She is already enthusiastic – both about the programme and her fellow scholars. ‘I would like to bring…
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Asia Academy #09: India's Democracy
Lecture
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CSPPR Lecture: Representation and the Trade Roots of the Gender Pay Gap
Lecture
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Does the welfare entitlement of immigrants change the admission preferences of natives?
Lecture
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A Conversation on Helen Thompson's 'Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century'
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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The making of a lost generation: child labor among Syrian refugees in Turkey
Lecture
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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European Citizens’ Initiative and participatory democracy in the EU
Lecture, Seminar
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Structures of Power: US Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era
Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History
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Film Screening: Foragers
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Project presentations of 3 grand winning research projects within Social Citizenship & Migration
Conference, Presentation
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The Road to Planetary Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Online Radicalisation: The Use of the Internet by Islamic State Terrorists in the US (2012-2018)
PhD defence
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School integration of refugee children: evidence from the largest refugee group in any country
Lecture
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Kleptocracy and Foreign Policy Change
PhD defence
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - The value of conflict in sustainability transitions
Lecture
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Food for Thought: Unhealthy Finance -Shifting Responsibilities in Society”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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Cyber Persistence Theory: redefining national security in cyberspace
Lecture
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Political Factors Affecting European Union Legislative Decision- Making Speed
PhD defence
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The construction of China’s national interest: Between top-down rule and societal ideas
PhD defence
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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Striking a Balance between Local and Global Interests
PhD defence
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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Interdisciplinary research: labour market on the move
Migration, globalisation, technological developments, climate change: the greatest challenges of our time all affect our labour market. But how exactly? And can we influence this? Professor of Economics Olaf van Vliet regards it as his job to reveal how things really are. ‘That way, we can work on solutions…
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Alumna Sytske Besemer on living and working abroad
This month's flash interview is with alumna Sytske Besemer, Criminologist, who works at a startup called Cradle. Sytske has specifically chosen to work for a company with societal impact. And she is about to move again, this time to Zürich.
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A new social contract in western welfare states in an era of climate change, digitalization and ageing
Seminar
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Healthy Society Event
Conference, Launch Healthy Society Center
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The Arctic Crossroads: Climate, Culture & Diplomacy in the High North
Lecture
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Jean Monnet Seminar: CompaRe meets EUTAXGOV
Seminar
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Leiden Research Support Conference 2023
Conference
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1500)
Conference
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Closing the Gap 2022 | Responsibility in Cyberspace: Narratives and Practice
Conference
- Putting the open engagement of societal actors into practice
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
- Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2023