824 search results for “labour market” in the Public website
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Get to know Seif Kabil, chairman young alumni network
Seif Kabil is the new chairman of the International Young Leiden Law Alumni Network. Time to get to know him better.
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Trade union grant for psychology research into the effect of a basic income
Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they receive a basic income. How do they plan to find answers?
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Collaborating bacteria sacrifice themselves for the greater good
Like ants, termites and bees, some bacteria work together as a multicellular group. There is a strict division of labour in such colonies, to make the group more resilient to the outside world. Now researchers have found that some parts of the bacterial colony can take ‘for the greater good’ to a whole…
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History is a matter of a longing for rifles and flat screen TVs
History can be found in utensils and in interviews with ordinary citizens. ‘With the reconstruction of everyday life, an anthropological approach works better,’ thinks historian Jan-Bart Gewald. Inaugural lecture on 6 June.
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Artistic Production in the Context of Neoliberalism, Autonomy and Heteronomy Revisited by Means of Infrastructural Critique
Jack Segbars publishes 'Artistic Production in the Context of Neoliberalism, Autonomy and Heteronomy Revisited by Means of Infrastructural Critique' in PARSE, Issue 9.
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Scholarly publications
Below are some of the scholarly works published within the context of the Institutions for Conflict Resolution programme.
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Governance and Global Affairs
Knowledge that benefits society is the domain of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). FGGA provides high-quality interdisciplinary education on and research into social and governance issues such as terrorism, organisation of public administration, climate change and economic crises.
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Dual-Appointment PhD Candidate and Junior System Administrator, Software Optimization and Compiler
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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World Solidarities: IUAES 2019
On August 27 – 31 2019, PhD candidate Maria Vasile participated in the IUAES 2019 Inter- congress in Poznan, Poland entitled "World Solidarities" and shares some of the insights from presentations she attended and found particularly relevant to the Food Citizens project.
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Altruism in bacteria: colonies divide the work
Bacteria found in soil specialise in the colony by division of labour. Some of the bacteria produce antibiotics, even when it comes at the expense of their individual reproduction success, to defend their colony against competitors. Publication in Science Advances.
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eLaw well represented at CPDP2018
From Jan. 24 until Jan. 26 the 11th annual conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) takes place in Brussels. The Leiden Center for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) will be represented in several of the panels at the conference.
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EuDEco/eLaw panel on accountability in algorithmic networks at CPDP2018
As partner within the EuDEco-poject, the Centre for Law and Digital Technologies (eLaw) organized a panel titled “Filling accountability holes in algorithmic networks” as part of the 11th annual conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), January 24-26 2018 in Brussels.
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments
North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history student Tycho van der Hoog for his master's thesis. These monuments can be an important source of income for a country that has become quite isolated on…
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From urban food organizations to food policies
Comparing gazes between Turin and other cities in the global north.
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Humans of Humanities
In the Humans of Humanities series, we will do a portrait of one of our researchers, staff members or students, every other week.
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
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Programme structure
The core curriculum equips students with the conceptual approaches and qualitative empirical research methods necessary to analyze law in context. Specialized electives enable students to dive deeper and focus on particular areas of legal practice—from legal mobilization to regulation and compliance…
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Lecture Oliver Rathkolb - The End of Social Democracy?
On 11 March, Oliver Rathkolb (University of Vienna) held a lecture about Social Democracy.
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LLX Roundtable on the Uber judgment and the Sharing Economy
In a week in which the threat of violent protest against taxi platform Uber made headlines from Athens to Amsterdam, Jorrit Rijpma (Europa Insitute) and Sophia Ranchordás (Groningen University) organised an Leiden Law Exchange (LLX) Roundtable on the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice…
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UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
In 2007, a number of countries signed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In collaboration with academics and activists in the field, Leiden researchers help to bring these agreements to life. They are mapping indigenous languages for educational purposes and defending the rights…
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Embedded System Software Engineer (Research and Education support) (0.8-1.0fte)
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Activities
The CEES Centre regularly hosts (guest) lectures, roundtables, and film screenings.
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PhD position in 'Effects of Pollution at the Ecosystem Level'
Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)
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PhD Candidate in the Field of Supramolecular Biomaterials
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD student in Plant - Microbe symbiosis
Science, Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)
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Lectureship in the Political Economy of Japan (1,0 fte)
Humanities, Institute for Area Studies, Japanese Studies
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Postdoc: Reactive scattering with electronic friction
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD: Targeting electron transport chain in Listeria monocytogenes for novel antibiotic development
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD candidate combinatorial drug discovery with macrocycles
Science, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)
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Assistant Professor in Automated Reasoning (0.8-1.0 FTE)
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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PhD position: ultrafast broadband-THz spectroscopy of perovskite materials
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD candidate in the field of biochemistry
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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2 Lecturer positions (0.6-1.0 FTE) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, and AI
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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PhD student in Biochemistry, Structure and Function of Archaeal Chromatin
Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)
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PhD candidate (1,0 FTE) in Central Asian (Tarim Basin) Palaeography
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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PhD candidate (1,0 FTE) in Ancient Central Asian (Tarim Basin) Contact Linguistics
Humanities, Centre for Linguistics
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Maria Vasile defends her Ph.D. dissertation
The silenced paradoxes of urban renewal.
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Heleen Andriessen publishes on sexual harassment in the workplace
The fact that sexual harassment in the workplace is a persistent problem became painfully clear again last year, especially after the widely watched ‘Boos’ broadcast on Dutch television. In June, the Supreme Court in the Netherlands settled a matter related to employment law: sexual harassment does…
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KNAW presents report on academic freedom in the Netherlands
Academic freedom is essential for good scientific practice, but there are limits: scientists and scholars from all domains must always seek a proper balance between academic freedom and independence on the one hand, and social responsibility on the other hand.
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Rising staff shortages despite fear of recession – Olaf van Vliet in NRC
Economists are warning for a contraction of the economy during the second half of this year. The United States are already facing a ‘technical recession’: two successive quarters of economic contraction. A recession can lead to a freeze in recruitment and even redundancies. Will employers take precautionary…
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Seminar: Challenges for Public Sector Employees
June 6th and 7th, the Institute of Public Administration hosted a seminar on the Challenges for public sector employees caused through the increasing demands that their work environment poses.
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KNAW advisory report on social safety in Dutch academia
At the beginning of July, a committee appointed by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) presented its report 'Social Safety in Dutch Academia. From Paper to Practice', to the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science. The committee was chaired by Professor Naomi Ellemers…
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Book Launch The Law of the European Union
The long awaited fifth edition of book ‘The Law of the European Union’ (formerly Kapteyn & VerLoren van Themaat) was launched on Friday 11 January 2019 at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague.
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Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee backgrounds were eager to study at Leiden University. How does the University help young people from various backgrounds find their way around the Dutch…
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Arenas Catalán and Leijten on social rights at the Staatsrechtconferentie
This year’s Staatsrechtconferentie (Constitutional Law Conference) was held at the University of Amsterdam on 13 December 2019 and dedicated to the topic of the Economic Constitution. Dr. Eduardo Arenas Catalán, lecturer at the Europa Institute, presented his paper Where do social rights begin? Dr.…
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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‘Let the Greek politicians explain how we got into this crisis'
Politicians throughout the whole of Europe need to be more honest with their voters and dare to take confrontational measures when necessary. This was the message given by Jeroen Dijsselbloem in the annual Europa lecture on 17 January in Leiden's Academy Building. As newly resigned President of the…