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EU JudgeCo Platform
The EU JudgeCo Platform provides valuable sources on cross-border insolvency court-to-court cooperation and communication in a EU context.
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Seascape Corridors
There is little evidence of the routes connecting Amerindian communities in the Caribbean prior to and just after 1492. Uncovering possible canoe routes between these communities can help to explain the structure, capabilities, and limitations of the physical links in their social and material networks.…
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About the programme
The master’s programme offers two research-oriented specialisations where you can focus on Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory or Applied Mathematics. You can also combine Mathematics with education, management or science communication.
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Digital nationalism in China: Sino-Japanese history in online networks
This project will explore how Chinese digital networks are grounded in real-world institutions, and how interest groups and individuals use digital infrastructures to shape public discourse on national history.
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Student life
Your time at Leiden is about more than just studying. Some of your best experiences will stem from being a part of our lively and diverse student community, as well as from life in the beautiful city of Leiden.
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Media use and brain development during adolescence
Nowadays children grow up with social media. This may influence the development of brain regions involved in social interaction. In their review article in Nature Communications, Crone and Konijn illustrate how neuroscience can contribute to a better understanding of how media and peers influence adolescents'…
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MS Teams LACDR PhD group
Every PhD candidate has access to MS Teams ‘LACDR PhD group’. This site is specially for PhD candidates of LACDR. We strive to collect here all relevant PhD information and to stimulate the collaboration and communication in the LACDR PhD community.
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Project Team
This team ensures that all Una Europa activities run smoothly, and provides support to Leiden colleagues directly involved in Una Europa activities.
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Workgroups
The mission of the Young Academy Leiden centers around three pillars: interdisciplinarity, science and education policy, and outreach. In addition, we have a community & communication workgroup that serves as an umbrella.
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Transnational Terrorism as a Threat: Cross-Border Threats
The authors detail the transnationality of terrorist organisations, including fundraising, communications, alliance-forming, movement and target selection.
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Weneya´a – “quien habla con los cerros”
This study documents and translates the Saa (Zapotec) cultural heritage of the Bene’ Ya’a/En’ne I’ya peoples, the Zapotec inhabitants of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
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Socio-political Changes, Confessionalization and Inter-confessional Relations in Ottoman Damascus from 1760 to 1860
Ms. Anaïs Massot defended her thesis on 26 January 2021
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Archaeology and Indigenous Sovereignty in Darién, Panama
The Darién region of Panama is the only land bridge connecting North, Central and South America. Nowadays home to descendants of African enslaved peoples, Indigenous peoples (Emberá, Wounaan, and Guna), and mestizos, Darién has been and still is fundamental to connectivity, cultural interchange, and…
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Towards High Performance and Efficient Brain Computer Interface Character Speller: Convolutional Neural Network based Methods
A P300-based Brain Computer Interface character speller, also known as P300 speller, has been an important communication pathway, under extensive research, for people who lose motor ability, such as patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or spinal-cord injury because a P300 speller allows human-beings…
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About the programme
The Physics and SCS specialisation consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System (EC) points and consists of an astronomy component (60 - 80 EC) and a science communication component (40 - 60 EC).
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Mobile peoples - permanent places
This dissertation is a study of archaeological remains left behind by nomadic communities in the Black Desert, situated in the northeast of modern Jordan.
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Through the hands of signers: modeling spread and change in historical sign language linguistics
The history of sign languages of deaf people is severely understudied. The historical linguistics of sign languages offers a fundamentally new perspective on the history of human languages. This project addresses the dearth of knowledge about historical sign language linguistics through a large-scale…
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Tuesday Talks
Leiden Science’s monthly dose of research inspiration from our staff, for our staff and all other curious minds. On Tuesday 3 September, Ionica Smeets, professor Science Communication will give an interesting lecture!
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Opposition to energy projects
Energy transition will entail the construction of large numbers of new energy installations. Such construction projects may meet with opposition from people living close by. Assistant Professor Bríd Walsh investigated how the local community can best take part in such projects.
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Mapping pre-industrial sanitation infrastructure in the town of Haarlem
The central research question focuses on identifying shifts in the urban social network in terms of private, semi-public and public space by means of mapping the spatial distributions of wells and cesspits in the town of Haarlem in the course of the pre-industrial period (1200-1800). Shifts may be indicative…
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Back to the Present
A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture
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Dignity and respect, diversity and inclusion
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is committed to being a safe, comfortable, and equitable space for both staff and students: a place where a diversity of people feel valued and welcome, where there is room for a diversity of perspectives.
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LUDEN
The primary goal of Leiden University Diversity and Equality Network (LUDEN) is to promote a more inclusive working and learning environment.
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Why Leiden University?
The Computer Science and SCS master specialisation gives you the opportunity to combine fundamental research in computer science with different aspects of science communication.
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Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy
The Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy (LCCP) is a research community based at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University. LCCP is envisaged as an open space for stimulating discussion, critical debate and inventive co-operation in the local and international philosophical community. We…
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Crisiscommunication course
Follow an in-depth course in crisis communication in The Hague at Universiteit Leiden. Crisis situations are diverse. Worldwide attacks have shown how important it is as a political leader to be visible, bring words to chaos, provide perspective and offer hope for a country, region or city in shock.
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Bullying in India; the teachers’ role
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Mathematics and Science Communication and Society at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Increased striatal activity in adolescence benefits learning
Heightened activation of the striatum that adolescents show in response to reward is often associated with risk-taking and negative health consequences. This article in Nature Communications investigates a potential positive side of this heightened activation. It shows that the activity peak in late…
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Physics and Science Communication and Society at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Biology and Science Communication and Society at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Computer Science and Science Communication & Society at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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European Integration
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’.
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Remote sensing-based assessment of functional diversity for polar ecosystems
1: What is the relative importance of alfa and beta biodiversity in polar ecosystems, and how does intraspecific variation influence this? 2: How can we use remote sensing to determine functional biodiversity (within communities) in polar ecosystems? 3: Temporal and spatial scales of functional biodiversity:…
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The Construction of Nationalism in Chinese Media Events in the Reform Era
On 12 May 2022 Qiaoqi Zhang successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Why is there no Northeast Asian security architecture?
Why is there no Northeast Asian security architecture? Assessing the strategic impediments to a stable East Asia. In this article, published in 'The Pacific Review', the authors Wang (Peking University) en Stevens (Leiden University) discuss the reasons why.
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Collaborations
Ecotox is located in an ambitious surrounding at the Leiden University. It is an initiative of both institutes Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) and Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL).
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Fungi of the greening Arctic: compositional and functional shifts in response to climatic changes
Promotor: E.F. Smets Co-promotor: J. Geml
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Foodways in early farming societies
Microwear and starch grain analysis on experimental and archaeological grinding tools from Central
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The rhizomicrobiome of Sorghum ; impact on plant growth and stress tolerance
The overall objectives of my thesis are to investigate the dynamics of the sorghum root microbiome and to explore the beneficial effects of the root microbiome on sorghum growth and stress tolerance.
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Retrieving the Past Glory: Social Memory, Transnational Networks and Christianity in Contemporary China
Jifeng Liu defended his thesis on 2 February 2017
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Astrolinguistics
Design of a Linguistic System for Interstellar Communication Based on Logic
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Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique
Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilians and archival material from extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) explains the timing,…
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Indigenous cultural heritage and intellectual property
Challenges for the protection of traditional knowledge and genetic resources, traditional cultural expressions, and traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples in the international scenario.
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Socially Embedded AI Systems
This interdisciplinary research project explores several adaptive machine learning methods which can give insight into the interaction between human and machine. The ultimate goal is open and natural communication between humans and AI that should result in mutual trust, cooperation and coordination…
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Historical sociolinguistics
When researching languages in historical context, our goal is to understand the nature of linguistic variation in the past, and explain the extent to which the socio-cultural context of bygone times contributed to shaping linguistic variation and change.
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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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Arabic and its Alternatives
Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War.
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Beginsel en begrip van verdeling
On 22 November 2018, Teico Sikkema defended his thesis 'Beginsel en begrip van verdeling'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. W.G. Huijgen and Prof. dr. F. Sonneveldt.