2,819 search results for “impact” in the Public website
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Self-assembly of flexible and rigid structures: from colloidal molecules to lattices
Self-assembly offers a promising route to create complex structures and materials using simple building blocks. Through, colloidal self-assembly, we can understand the governing principles of the self-assembly process and unlock its potential in diverse applications in materials science, photonics and…
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Citizen Science Lab
The Citizen Science Lab brings together scientists, citizens and community stakeholders to arrive at new insights for both science and society through citizen science.
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Training and Workshops
Empowering education professionals in their continuous professional development is fundamental to our mission. We understand that a teacher’s didactic skills are as essential as their subject knowledge in delivering impactful education. To support this, we offer a broad range of training and coaching…
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Breaking the witches' spell: towards steering the soil microbiome for volatile-mediated control of the root parasitic weed Striga
Striga hermonthica, commonly known as witchweed, infests major cereal crops in Sub-Saharan Africa causing severe yield losses and threatening the livelihood of millions of resource poor farmers.
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Nature and human interactions
It is well-known that humans have significantly transformed ecosystems since their adoption of agriculture. However, in a deeper past, prehistoric hunter-gatherers may already have altered and modified their niche in ways that had major impacts on ecosystems.
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Roman Republican Colonization
New perspectives from archaeology and ancient history
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A functional approach to differential indexing
On 12 April 2022 Alok Oak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Western European Loess Belt
Agrian History, 5300 BC - AD 1000; C.C. Bakels
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Open Science
At Leiden University, we see open Science as the way to make a greater scientific and societal impact. There is also great momentum across the Netherlands for open science, and for good reason.
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Biophysical feedbacks between seagrasses and hydrodynamics in relation to grazing, water quality and spatial heterogeneity
Consequences for sediment stability and seston trapping
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OPERA – Open Research Analytics
OPERA aims at establishing open and advanced research analytics practices and systems at Danish universities and in the Danish landscape of research analytics stakeholders.
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Evolution & Biodiversity
Evolution & Biodiversity is one of the four research themes of the Institute of Biology Leiden.
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Participation, Engagement and Collaboration in Newsmaking
This book brings together new research on the practices of newsmaking.
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Active Learning Network
The active learning network joins together everyone interested in the subject to move the theme further within Leiden University. The SALTSWAT pilot program researches the ways forward for Leiden University.
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Synthetic model microswimmers near walls
Synthetic microswimmers take an important place within the interdisciplinary field of active soft matter.
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Translation
Empirical and experimental research focusing on literary, legal, medical and audiovisual translation.
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Using soil inoculations for ecological restorations
How soil microbial composition impacts structure and composition of the aboveground plant and animal communities?
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Elite attitudes and the future of global governance
The idea of global governance and trust in international institutions are apparently getting into deep water. But is there a legitimacy crisis? Not according to international élites, as Jan Aart Scholte (Leiden University), Soetkin Verhaegen (Maastricht University) and Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University)…
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How the Caged Bird Sings: Educational Background and Poetic Identity of China’s Obscure Poets
Jinhua Wu defended his thesis on 5 January 2021
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Green Paper
What role should the university play in the climate crisis?
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Dynamics and radiation from tidal disruption events
When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole, it is torn apart by strong tidal forces in a tidal disruption event (TDE).
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National space legislation : future perspectives for Malaysian Space Law
This research studies the future perspectives for Malaysian space law. It aims at demonstrating the development of Malaysian outer space activities inclusive of her status with respect to United Nations space conventions and her membership of international and regional space-related organizations.
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Individualized dosing of serotherapy in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation - a delicate balance
Promotor: C.A.J. Knibbe, Co-promotor: J.J. Boelens, R.G.M. Bredius
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Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914
Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context.
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Strategy
The Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacy (SPP) aims to develop precision medicine approaches to characterize and predict variation in treatment response and enhance translational drug development strategies.
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Printed Keyboard Intabulations of Secular Vocal Works and Dances in 16th-century Italy
Understanding the nature, characteristics and function of the secular vocal intabulations and dances found in Italian printed keyboard sources in the 16th century
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About
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR) is part of the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS).
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Production, Consumption and Agency
Central to the research of several cluster members are the social function and contexts of the production and consumption of medieval and early modern art, literature and media:
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Archaeological Heritage and Society
The Department of Archaeological Heritage and Society focuses on the relationships between past and present, the role of heritage in society, and how heritage can contribute to the improving quality of life and our (future) environment.
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PNEC-pro
PNEC-pro is a user-friendly screening tool for professionals dealing with the assessment of surface water quality. The tool calculates local, watertype specific no-effect concentrations (PNEC) of copper, lead, nickel, and zinc based on biotic ligand models (BLMs).
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The Education and Training of Public Servants
In this book, the authors provide an overview of the history of civil service education and training by analysing cases in Europe, the US and Australia.
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Understanding deep meta-learning
The invention of neural networks marks a critical milestone in the pursuit of true artificial intelligence. Despite their impressive performance on various tasks, these networks face limitations in learning efficiently as they are often trained from scratch.
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How partisan politics influence government policies in response to ageing populations
Kohei Suzuki is Assistant Professor at Institute of Public Administration. This study carries several important implications for understanding the policy impacts of a graying population and for studies of the welfare state, in general.
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The noise of the hunt: effects of noise on predator-prey relationships in a marine ecosystem
The effects of anthropogenic noise on interactions between predators and their prey are still little understood.
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Too Close for Comfort: Cyber Terrorism and Information Security across National Policies and International Diplomacy
In this article for Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, the authors analyse the evolution and interplay of national policies and international diplomacy on cyber terrorism within and across the UNSC’s permanent five members and the UN process on cyber norms (GGE and OEWG).
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Mission Statement
Inter-Section is a journal intended for students and staff affiliated with the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, as well as those interested in the range of student-research carried out here.
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The limits of tolerance: before and after Brexit and the German Refugee Crisis
This study investigates how two social and political developments, in the UK and Germany, impacted on the experiences of minorities and the attitudes of majorities vis-à-vis tolerance in those two countries. The results provide a thought-provoking picture of the views of minority and majority groups…
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Old Armenian Nasal Verbs: Archaisms and Innovations
On May 2nd, Petr Kocharov succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Petr on this great result.
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Next444
The Next444 project focuses on the future of interdisciplinary research at Leiden University.
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Application of technology
Our courses embrace developments in technology. Our teachers adapt technological innovations to their discipline, and we keep our teaching up to date on rapid developments in the digital world.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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The infrastructure of news: Newsroom ethnography in Chile
Research on the process and construction of news stories about human rights issues in Latin American newspapers.
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Archaeological Heritage Management
Archaeological heritage management is concerned with the identification, protection, management and preservation of the material remains of human activity in the past (of whatever period and in whichever region of the world) and with the interaction that this involves with all kinds of stakeholders.
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Language policy and planning
From the smallest level of interaction among families and close friends, over the meso-level of schools, shops, churches, religious communities and companies, to the highest level of nation-states and international organisations: Language Policy and Planning (LPP) is everywhere!
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About us
The Leiden Leadership Programme (LLP) is an interdisciplinary honours programme for master’s students. It is organised by Leiden University's Honours Academy and Leiden Leadership Centre.
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Weathering the Ice Age
Where did species survive the cold cycles of the current Ice Age?
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Podcast
The Hague Diplomacy Podcast aims at bringing the themes of the journal's research off the page, and onto the discussion table. Each episode will feature a guest who will share their insights and personal experience within their practice of or research on diplomacy.
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The Role of Historical Narratives in Extremist Propaganda
In this paper for Defence Strategic Communications, Alastair Reed and Jennifer Dowling seek to show the importance of historical narratives to propaganda by identifying and exploring five ways in which such narratives are exploited to reinforce the extremists' 'competitive system of meaning'.
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Supporting medical teachers' learning: redesigning a program using characteristics of effective instructional development
In this research project characteristics of effective instructional development were identified that are appealing to medical teachers and relevant for medical education.
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Japanese Confucianism
“Winner CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award 2016” A Cultural History