349 search results for “policy evolution” in the Student website
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Nikki IkaniFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Arco TimmermansFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anchrit WilleFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Archaeologist Sarah Schrader receives a grant to explore the evolution of stress
Stress and overwork are massive problems today, but relatively little is known about stress factors in the past. With a look at the deep history of stress, Sarah Schrader hopes to get a better understanding of the human stress experience. Her project application received an NWO XS grant.
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Policy in Practice Valuing Water and Culture(s)
Understanding the embedded nature of water in space, culture, and society can help us to redeploy historic systems and the heritage of past water management as part of sustainable development. Doing so requires new, shared methodologies and terminologies, as well as tools that facilitate engagement…
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Heritage & Material Culture MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Present imaginations of the past and its tangible and intangible dimensions, are a major factor in the ways in which societies, and the various groups which constitute these, imagine themselves. Research Internships that fall within this category are being offered by for example museums, municipalities…
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Sustainability & Development MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Research Internships in the field of Sustainability and Development focus on the challenges presented by the need to find ways in which consumption, usage, production, recycling and reusage can be brought in line with current societal needs. The Research Internships included in this category are being…
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Policy in Practice Heritage and the Question of Conversion
Students researchers’ research proposals are drawn up in consultation with D&I Expertise Office staff, taking account of what the latter find urgent and relevant. The results of the research are shared with D&I Expertise Office staff, even if subject to common ethical standards of ethnographic research…
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Inequality & Diversity MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Explore inequality and diversity issues with research internships at top organizations. Unravel challenges and make an impact today!
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Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain
Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New research indicates that this specialisation by boys and girls starts at a very young age. Most likely, this enabled the human species to evolve much larger…
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Powerful corporations determine climate policy in Brazil
Bribing a politician to gain influence or making sure friends end up in powerful positions: Brazilian energy companies use these power strategies daily.
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Stefan ThewissenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan CrijnsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Karolina PomorskaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nikki Ikani’s new book on crises and change in European foreign policy
Nikki Ikani, Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), has recently published her latest monograph 'Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy' with Manchester University Press.
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European foreign policy after a crisis: change and continuity
‘Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy.’ That is the title of Nikki Ikani’s book that was published last month. We asked the writer five questions about her book. Presentation: 5 & 20 April.
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Arie VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Merijn de BakkerScience
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Lennart Schada von BorzyskowskiScience
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Manon de VisserScience
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Sebastian Fajardo BernalScience
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Pablo Mendes De LeonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Joyce OutshoornFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tamar de CorteFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sarah GiestFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kristin MakszinFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Janna GoijaertsFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sebastian DiessnerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerard BreemanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jyothi ThrivikramanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alanna O'MalleyFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew GawthorpeFaculty of Humanities
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Emily Anne WolffFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Egbert JongenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Edwin BakkerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Ehsan JamiFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Tanja Masson-ZwaanFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Koen CaminadaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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When does resistance to toxins evolve in animals? Students publish major review
Does a snake die when it bites its lip? Why will a mongoose survive a scorpion’s sting, but we humans perish? These questions occupied the minds of toxin-enthusiasts and Master’s students Biology Jory van Thiel and Roel Wouters. They collected information from many sources and published their findings…
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Tropical bananaquits lose song quality in the city
I think we should go this way. This way! THIS! WAY!! Making yourself heard in a city can be difficult. That is not only the case for humans, but birds seem to be hindered by urban noise as well. Researcher Hans Slabbekoorn of Leiden University already showed that great tits in Leiden communicate differently…
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Simon Portegies ZwartScience
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Alcohol and substance policy Faculty of Archaeology
Human resources
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Developments in policy changes regarding Higher Education
Organisation
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Supergenes make bizarre traits possible
Within the same species of butterfly many different wing patterns can occur. How is this possible? According to researchers Ben Wielstra and Emma Berdan, of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL), the answer lies within supergenes. A supergene is a part of a chromosome that contains many strongly linked…
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brussels’ as bureaucratic, even undemocratic, bypassing its citizens. And many of us buy into that image. Nikoleta Yordanova, Anastasia Ershova and Aleksandra…
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Deconstructing a more assertive China: How did its foreign policy change?
Since 2009-2010, the West viewed China as more assertive. Especially after Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, the country abandoned Deng Xiaoping’s ‘low profile’ foreign policy. Friso Stevens explains in his dissertation where this change has come from. The dissertation defence is on 28 March.