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Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making
How can the concept of Critical Making be expanded into a general approach that ties the critical methodology of artistic research, and the established concepts of artistic autonomy, together with contemporary creative-technological development?
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Research lines
Current research at the Skin Barrier and Vaccination group.
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Application procedure
On this page you can find out more about applying for a PhD position at the Faculty of Humanities.
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Research
Research in the arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA)
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Better ligands for G Protein-Coupled Receptors
The receptor nomenclature committee of IUPHAR, the International Union of Pharmacology, has several subgroups. Among these are a few that our division is involved in, those for adenosine, nicotinic acid, and GnRH receptors.
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Mission
Area studies is an approach to knowledge that starts from the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present, through the relevant source languages, with central regard for issues of positionality.
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Weighing the impacts of our goods and services on the environment and climate: how to measure?
The car we buy is made out of thousands of components, which are produced using different types of materials. These materials need to be sourced from different places, sent to production facilities and assembled. Once the car is dismissed, the components need to be taken care of by either reusing, recycling…
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Institute for Philosophy
The philosophers at the Institute for Philosophy develop new perspectives and insights not only on topical themes such as immigration and climate change, but also on more fundamental philosophical questions.
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Visual attention bias for self-made artworks
Larissa Mendoza Straffon and colleagues investigated visual attentional biases toward self-made artworks, which tend to be favoured, remembered, valued, and ranked above and beyond objects that are not related to the self. Their findings confirm that attention and preference are higher for self-made…
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Nutrition
Radiation can be used to determine the isotope ratio of a skeleton. This provides information about where our ancestors lived and what they consumed. Dr Andrea Waters has developed a revolutionary method that can trace patterns of consumption from tens of thousands of years ago.
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Policing the high seas: maritime law-enforcement in a multi-actor environment
Identifying the gaps in the legal framework for EU activities in the maritime security domain, and specifically in the areas of combating piracy, human smuggling or trafficking and drug trafficking.
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Teeth Tell Tales
A multi-disciplinary approach to past lifestyles and cultural practices
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Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding
Knowledge and culture subproject 4:
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Night of Discoveries
The Night of Discoveries is an annual event in Leiden, focusing on science and culture. The Young Academy Leiden is a recurring contributor to the Night of Discoveries.
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P.J. Veth Building (completed)
The refurbished P.J. Veth Building - the first completed sub-project in the Humanities Campus project - was officially opened in the summer of 2017. The Faculty of Humanities moved in straight away. . The building was meticulously transformed into a modern teaching building with attractive areas for…
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The Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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Research ecosystem
The chain that supplies patients with new medicines consists of various complex links: from fundamental research to clinical tests and production. This entire chain is represented in Leiden. Leiden University, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), and the companies on the Leiden Bio Science Park…
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Dead body management in armed conflict: paradoxes in trying to do justice to the dead
The world is full of wars, and no war is without its dead. What happens to the bodies of fatal casualties of armed conflict? The winner of the faculty Jongbloed Thesis Prize 2015 is Welmoet Wels (Public International Law). Her thesis Dead body management in armed conflict: paradoxes in trying to do…
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Research
The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology is a world renowned academic centre for the study of the past. Our archaeologists and heritage experts are involved in innovative projects all over the world.
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Predictive Pharmacology
Prof. Elizabeth de Lange is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest. Also, while she underscores that there is still the need for using animals in drug research, she is concerned about this use, and advocates the use…
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Transmedia storytelling for critical engagement
Leiden University and VU Amsterdam are developing a joint research project for a digital platform on which you can compose and share storylines with the use of images. Such interactivity will make a boring high school history lesson much more exciting and personalized. Furthermore, it will stimulate…
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Key publications
Key publications of the Quantitative Pharmacology group
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Public Risk and Disaster
The world’s population increasingly has to deal with risks related to ever-evolving challenges. How humanity as a whole prepares for, responds to, and manages these grand challenges is crucial for the world’s future. In this minor, you will explore and unravel these grand challenges, and look for possible…
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Conference 2022
On July 8 and 9, 2022, Leiden University hosted the second conference of the research group on Institutions for Conflict Resolution, in collaboration with Radboud University Nijmegen and Utrecht University.
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Maritime Security
The project 'Policing the high seas: maritime law-enforcement in a multi-actor environment' aims to identify the gaps in the legal framework for EU activities in the maritime security domain, and specifically in the areas of combating piracy, human smuggling or trafficking and drug trafficking.
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Animal Sciences
We perform multidisciplinary research at molecular, cellular, and organismal levels of animal biology to increase fundamental understanding of health and disease.
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Leiden Socio Legal Series
Starting this academic year (2016-2017) Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Sociology of Law at the Van Vollenhoven Institute will organize the Leiden Socio-Legal Series (LSLS).
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Research
Research lines within the Pharmacy group:
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Why Things End
Studies on the Disappearance of the Amphora Phenomenon
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Programme structure
The European Law Master’s specialisation distinguishes itself by its broad intra-disciplinary approach, covering institutional, constitutional as well as substantive law of the EU in addition to human rights from an EU perspective.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Philosophy of Humanities at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for North American Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Urban
Urbanization brings benefits like housing and jobs but also challenges like biodiversity loss. CML's Urban research program uses science to create sustainable cities, focusing on the built environment (circular economy, urban mining) and enhancing urban nature for biodiversity and human benefits.
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Should Nature be given Rights?
LeidenGlobal Annual event
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Sustainable Development
This interdisciplinary minor addresses sustainability challenges from a systems perspective, and investigates ways to sustain society within planetary boundaries.
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Development of nanoparticulate adjuvants based on aluminium salts
The aim of this thesis was to develop aluminium salt-based nanoparticles that may ultimately be used as adjuvant in human vaccines.
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Education
Studying linguistics at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) is a challenging but rewarding experience. There are few places in the world where such a broad range of languages are studied from so many different perspectives.
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State & Society network
The State & Society network critically interrogates the assumption that state and society are a priori conceptual and empirical objects.
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Data Science Research Programme
The Data Science Research Programme aims to advance the state of the art in Data Science research and to accelerate the use of Data Science methods at all faculties of Leiden University.
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Taskforce and focus group
Healthy University Leiden consists of a taskforce, focus group and seminars.
- Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research
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Student projects
We invite you to develop your academic skills by joining our research group and develop your own short term project in the bachelor phase. We offer longer term research projects for master students.
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Game Research Lab (GRL)
The Game Research Lab (GRL) uses digital games as a medium for academic research, and consider ‘serious’ games and entertainment games equally valuable objects of study.
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Faculties
Leiden University was founded in 1575 and is one of the leading international research universities in Europe. Its motto is Praesidium Libertatis – Bastion of Freedom
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Systems microscopy-based drug target discovery in pathogen-meidated inflammatory respons signalling
Establishing human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) CRISPR-Cas9-based fluorescent reporter cell lines for NF-kB signalling. We will use this to enable studying the dynamic activation and downstream signalling of Toll-like receptor and cytokine signalling in iPSC-derived differentiated cells in a…
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Contact Us
The LUCAS Office is housed in Arsenaalstraat 1 and staffed by Viola Stoop and Roelie Mol.
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Education
Innovative, interdisciplinary education is a main pillar of the SAILS-programme.