178 search results for “global challenges” in the Staff website
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Madeleine Hosli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Raoel Nanhekhan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Xiaoyang Zhong
Science
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Joris Larik
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kiri Paramore
Faculty of Humanities
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Joachim Koops
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew Hoye
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Yali Si
Science
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Stephen Harris
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Remus Dame
Science
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Jue Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Riccardo Mancinelli
Science
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Jonathan London
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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John Concannon, Director General of the Global Ireland Unit visits Leiden University
The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges and the Embassy of Ireland are co-hosting a special meeting in The Hague. On Tuesday 30 January, John Concannon (Director of the Global Ireland Unit), ambassador Brendan Rogers and dr. Alanna O’Malley will…
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Letizia Lo Giacco
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter van Bodegom
Science
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Josien de Klerk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Salvador Santino Regilme
Faculty of Humanities
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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Leiden workshop on post-consumer textile 'waste’ in the Netherlands (and beyond)
On Thursday 30 May, Leiden University hosts a workshop to foster collaborations to improve the governance of European textile waste export. Different stakeholders, including municipalities, associations of textile collectors and sorters, industry and consumers associations, are warmly invited to join…
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Una Europa webinar: Building Global Networks through Heritage
How can academics build global networks and why is this important? Join this webinar on 22 May at 12 noon CET to hear perspectives and experiences related to these questions from Una Europa, an alliance of 11 leading European research universities. Registration is not required - simply join the…
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New research programme for urgent challenges in Africa
Leiden University and four other Dutch universities will appoint 51 PhD candidates to conduct solution-oriented research for and with the African continent.
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Volume on Internet Governance published
In March 2021, Prof. dr. Jan Aart Scholte, Professor Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, co-edited with Dr. Blayne Haggart and Dr. Natasha Tusikov the volume Power and Authority in Internet Governance.
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Healthy University Leiden reveals interim results of Ommetje walking challenge
In the space of seven weeks, the staff of the LUMC and Leiden University have left home more than 35,000 times for a short walk, or an Ommetje as it is known. Healthy University Leiden launched the Ommetje walking challenge to encourage its staff to adopt a healthy lifestyle. Thus far this has resulted…
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EU TalentOn: challenging young, academic talent to shape the future!
Research
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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Europeaum Call for Applications - Challenges to European Security
Education, Research
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Francesco Ragazzi
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. In that respect, a huge amount happened at Leiden University in 2023.
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Call for contributions: FestiWell ‘22 – “Towards global sustainable well-being”
Organisation
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000
On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000”. The conference asks: why is it always India that has been imagined as a wonder, and what did that wonder mean, intellectually…
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The kick-off of the Ommetje app challenge during the Let's Walk Week
Today marks the start of the Healthy University - Let's Walk Week 2021, a week focused on the mental and physical health of our employees. Including an online program with interesting inspiration sessions, office workouts and sports lessons. And join our walking competition in the Ommetje app!
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Escape room challenges staff to work safely online
An escape room gave staff the chance to test their knowledge about cybersecurity at work. Would they manage to defuse the bomb in time without falling for the phishing emails or causing a data breach?
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Antoaneta Dimitrova
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
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Irma Mosquera Valderrama
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective"
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a research visit at one of our partner universities? Then you might want to join the Leiden team of the EU funded Marie Curie Staff Exchange Network on non western…
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‘If you want to resolve the big challenges in healthcare, you have to work across disciplines’
Marieke Adriaanse is Professor of Behavioural Interventions in Population Health and researches behavioural science issues in health. She advocates for better interdisciplinary collaboration and a new form of recognition and rewards within academia. ‘We have to stop being so blinkered,’ she says in…
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Global Privateering
Conference, Project launch
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Corey Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Cucurachi
Science
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities