2,998 search results for “impact” in the Public website
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Ecology of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis Rüppell 1835) in a changing landscape: Human carnivore interactions in Afroalpine ecosystems of
Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.
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The Grotius Sanction: Deus Ex Machina. The legal, ethical, and strategic use of drones in transnational armed conflict and counterterrorism
On 21 March 2019, James Welch defended his thesis 'The Grotius Sanction: Deus Ex Machina. The legal, ethical, and strategic use of drones in transnational armed conflict and counterterrorism'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. P.B Cliteur.
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Research
The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates. Hosting a diverse group of young and advanced scholars, it offers an especially fruitful and dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration.
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MoRRI – Monitoring the evolution and benefits of responsible research and innovation
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) implies that societal actors (researchers, citizens, policy makers, business, third sector organisations, etc.) work together during the whole research and innovation process in order to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, needs and…
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OPENup: Optimizing exposure therapy for Posttraumatic Stress disorder
Although exposure therapy is the gold-standard treatment of posttraumatic stress-disorder (PTSD), only half of the patients adequately benefit from it. Based on recent insights into the mechanisms of extinction, this project examines strategies and techniques to improve exposure treatment outcome in…
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Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies
Simona Demková, Assistant professor at the Europa Institute of Leiden University, publishes her book ‘Automated Decision-Making and Effective Remedies: The New Dynamics in the Protection of EU Fundamental Rights in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’.
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"If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973
Maral Jefroudi defended her thesis on 11 October 2017
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Internship information
An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.
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Towards a Sustainable and Circular Metals Economy
In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.
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Brimstone, Sea and Sand
The Historic Port Town of Sandy Point and its Anchorage
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European Energy, Environment and Health
Research on this theme addresses the systemic risks faced by European societies and affecting the quality of life of European citizens.
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Education
Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University is renowned for its international orientation and broad range of theoretical, methodological, and regional expertise.
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Time for mapping. Cartographic temporalities
Understanding the temporal modes of digital mapping.
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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500, Third Edition
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial…
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Unsprayed field margins: effects on environment, biodiversity and agricultural practice
A management strategy has been developed for field margins to reduce pesticide drift to non-target areas and to promote biodiversity on arable land. To this end, 3 and 6 m wide strips along the edges of winter wheat, sugar beet and potato crops have been left unsprayed with herbicides and insecticides…
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Services
CWTS B.V. is a company affiliated to CWTS and owned by Leiden University. Our core mission is to contribute to a sustainable science system by providing high-quality services for research evaluation, research management and science policy. These services are based on analyses and visualizations of academic…
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Centre for Digital Heritage (CDH)
The Centre for Digital Heritage undertakes collaborative international research in the field of Digital Heritage. It is an initiative of the University of York.
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Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology
Caspar Reuvens, the world’s first Professor of Archaeology, was a prominent classical scholar and from his appointment in 1818 onwards Classical & Mediterranean Archaeology has been an important field of research in Leiden.
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Exploring big data approaches in the context of early stage clinical
Als gevolg van de grote technologische vooruitgang in de gezondheidszorg worden in toenemende mate gegevens verzameld tijdens de uitvoering van klinische onderzoeken.
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9 Ways Coronavirus Could Transform Capitalism
Natascha van der Zwan, Assistant Professor at Leiden Univeristy, together with two other authors, wrote a book that explored some of the ways coronavirus is impacting the global capitalist system – and how this could change for better and for worse.
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In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research
The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Eastern Frontiers
This volume considers the military architecture and its impact on local communities in Rome's eastern frontier, which stretched from the north-east shore of the Black Sea to the Red Sea.
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Digital Humanitarian Networks: Crisis Management as a Social System
Intelligence of the crowd, or in other words, intelligence of a large, random collective, exists mostly in social media platforms such as twitter. The collective does not comprise (at least not necessarily) experts on crises, just regular people mostly. Nevertheless, there is valuable intelligence to…
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European Prehistory
Our research deals with the deep history of Europe and Eurasia, from the inception of farming up until the beginning of the Roman Period. This was a period in which key developments took place that had a profound impact on European landscapes and society until the present day. Our research and teaching…
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MicroGRICE: Greenhouse Gas Reduction in RICE: MICRO-biome climate smart applications
Can we use indigenous microbial rice communities to reduce methane production in agricultural settings?
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The Monetary Valuation of Water-related Ecosystem Services
While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.
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The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective
This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.
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The Demographics of Protoplanetary Disks: from Lupus to Orion
The work presented in this thesis is based on ALMA surveys of protoplanetary disks in three star-forming regions: Lupus, OMC-2, and NGC 2024.
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Atalialu Serapheim and the Turkophone Orthodox Christians of Anatolia: A study of eighteenth-century Turkish texts in the Greek alphabet (Karamanlidika)
Stylianos Irakleous defended his thesis on 6 February 2020
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Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry
On the 12th of December, Alice Ross T. Morta successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Alice on this achievement!
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The Hague Centre for Digital Governance
The rise of the digital age affects public governance in many ways. Digitalisation and data impact every aspect of public governance and policy. Within Leiden University’s Public Administration institute, based in The Hague -the administrative capital of the Netherlands- our centre seeks to understand…
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ELS Academy PhD Kick-off Event
PhD Kick-off Event
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Dear Future Me
Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying self-concept development in relation to educational decision-making in adolescence
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Linking global crop and livestock consumption to local production hotspots
International trade plays a critical role in global food security, with global consumption having highly localized environmental impacts.
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Does feedback targeting text comprehension trigger the use of reading strategies or changes in readers' attitudes? A meta-analysis
Our previous meta-analysis (Swart et al., 2019) had shown that feedback targeting text comprehension given when students perform a reading task positively influences learning from text. So far, differences in the effects of feedback were explained by design features, such as the timing and richness…
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Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City
Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City focuses on how individuals navigate conversation in highly diversified contexts and provides a broad overview of state of the art research in urban sociolinguistics across the globe.
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Security Vision
How do technologies of computer vision, which promise to replace humans in the understanding of images, work in practice in the field of security, and what are their ethical and political implications?
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TRIXY Center of Expertise
TRIXY is a national Center of Expertise, in which clinical professionals and expert researchers work together to improve knowledge and clinical care for children with X and Y chromosome trisomies.
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EmbRace: The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging
The project 'EmbRace: The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging' investigates the embodied and sensorial dimension of the racialization of Muslims and its intersections with gender, class and religion.
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Constitutional and administrative law
Constitutional and administrative law covers a broad area of law. It provides the rules with which issues in society can be solved by government authorities.
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Drug Discovery & Safety
In the research programme Drug Discovery & Safety, we are interested in the efficacy and safety of new drugs and novel means to decipher these aspects. Hence, we employ advanced imaging and high-throughput screening techniques next to computational approaches such as chem- and bioinformatics.
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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented – and underestimated – figures of the seventeenth century. Daughter of James VI & I, she was married to Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1613 – they were crowned King and Queen of Bohemia in 1619, only to be deposed and exiled to the Dutch Republic in…
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Firearms and violence in Europe
Firearms and violence in Europe–A systematic review by Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem
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Waste Collection Systems Assessed and Good Practices Identified (COLLECTORS)
What is the environmental impact of different waste collection systems across Europe? How can the collection be improved when considering collection, sorting, and treatment, as well as use options for secondary materials?
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Value Congruence in a Multinational Corporation
On 29 June 2017, Doris Dull-Zessner defended her PhD dissertation “Value Congruence in a Multinational Corporation”. The supervisors are Professor J.A.A. Adriaanse and Professor J.I. van der Rest.
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THE FIBER-OPTIC CABLE AT THE BACK OF THE YARDS
At the center of this research project lies a practice-based, artistic exploration of the impact of digitalization on the lived reality of both physical and cognitive labor.
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The Public Dimension of International Investment Law and Arbitration
How can international investment law and arbitration take account of the public interest in, and more broadly, the public dimension of, the relations between foreign investors and host States ?
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Beyond UN75: A Roadmap for Inclusive, Networked & Effective Global Governance
Drawing on insights from past and contemporary scholars and world leaders, the report explores the concepts of a new social contract, a new global deal, and networked and inclusive multilateralism introduced recently by Secretary-General António Guterres to help the United Nations better grapple with…