700 search results for “social cohesion” in the Public website
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Stone Artefact Production and Exchange among the Lesser Antilles
ASLU 13
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The Grotius Sanction: Deus Ex Machina. The legal, ethical, and strategic use of drones in transnational armed conflict and counterterrorism
On 21 March 2019, James Welch defended his thesis 'The Grotius Sanction: Deus Ex Machina. The legal, ethical, and strategic use of drones in transnational armed conflict and counterterrorism'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. P.B Cliteur.
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Why are governments sharing intelligence on the Ukraine war with the public and what are the risks?
In this article, Thomas Maguire, assistant professor at the Institute of Governance and Global Affairs, examines the intelligence of the US, British and Ukrainian governments and NATO partners concerning Russia and its war against Ukraine. This article discusses how and why governments communicate intelligence…
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About us
The Mathematical Institute is one of the eight institutes of the Faculty of Science. The institute operates as a single unit defined by the activities of its members.
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Our year on social media
It’s been a turbulent, bizarre and extraordinary year, 2020. Coronavirus turned the lives of everyone at our University upside down. Out teaching, research and all the events that are held in a year: nothing was the same as before. That this affected all of us is clear from the highlights and many reactions…
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Social support and quitter-identity may help smokers quit
Receiving positive support and seeing yourself as being a quitter may help smokers quit, say Eline Meijer and colleagues. The health psychologists published their study in Social Science & Medicine.
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Seminar ‘Tailored Provisions, Social Rights Compliance?’
On the 1st of November 2017, Ingrid Leijten hosted an expert-seminar titled ‘Tailored Provisions, Social Rights Compliance?’ (‘Maatwerk als Mensenrecht?’).
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LLX virtual roundtable on the Social Summit and the European Pillar of Social Rights
Organised jointly by the Europa Institute, Leiden University and the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law, University of Lisbon on 31 May 2021.
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Schadenfreude and the role in social relations
Leiden psychologist Wilco van Dijk and communication scientist Jaap Ouwerkerk of VU University Amsterdam published a book about the emotion Schadenfreude. The authors describe what the emotion Schadenfreude really is, when people experience the emotion, and what role it plays in social relations.
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Sharing knowledge about social media in Africa
Africa is online. Leiden Africa expert Mirjam de Bruijn is fascinated by the fast development of mobile telephony and social media in Africa. She maintains a website on the topic, focusing on isolated, marginalised and conflict-ridden areas in Middle Africa.
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Extremely shy and genetically close
Investigating neurobiological endophenotypes of Social Anxiety Disorder
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Social mindfulness varies across the globe
Compare human social behaviour at a country level and you will find differences. Japan has the highest score whereas the Netherlands is just above average. This is what psychologist Niels van Doesem discovered in research with an international team of 64 colleagues in 31 industrialised countries. Their…
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Report by Dutch Committee on Social Minimum
On Thursday 28 September, the Committee on Social Minimum, of which Koen Caminada is a member, presented its second report to outgoing minister for poverty policy in the Netherlands, Carola Schouten. The Committee was established by the minister at the request of the House of Representatives.
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UnMiSSeD - Understanding Misinformation and Science in Societal Debates
UnMiSSeD studies the interaction between misinformation and science in societal debates using a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach.
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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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Reform of Social Legislation Speaker Series
On Friday 17 November at 15.30h Prof. Simon Deakin will give the first seminar of the Reform of Social Legislation Speaker Series
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the Motivating Factors Driving Men and Women to Engage in Far-Right Social Movement Activism in the Present-Day United States
In the present-day United States, to what degree(s) are far-right men and women similar and/or dissimilar in their motivating factors for engaging in far-right social movement activism?
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Yvonne Erkens publishes article on innovation in the field of corporate social responsibility
Throughout the world fundamental labour rights in supply chains are being violated. Since the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh shook the world, we can no longer turn our heads away.
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Photographic traditions in black popular modernities: towards a socio-historical analysis of the visual economy in and beyond South Africa
The aim of the project is to contribute to the process of archive formation ongoing in Post-Apartheid South Africa through the inclusion of photographs that have been either unacknowledged or excised from the national canon.
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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience
The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) studied multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives.
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Research
Our Institute’s research focuses on ‘global vulnerabilities and social resilience’. Specifically, we highlight three interconnected themes: diversity, sustainability, and digitalisation.
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Tolerant migrant cities? The case of Holland 1600-1900
This pioneering project will answer this question by examining migrants through the eyes of the courts between 1600 and 1900. It aims to reveal patterns of continuity and change in: 1. Treatment of migrants by criminal courts; 2. Violence and conflicts between migrants and native born.
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Dilara Erzeybek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Frank Takes
Science
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Renetta Bos
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mirre Stallen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Stephanus Huijbregts
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Armin Cuyvers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Marike Knoef
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Koese
Science
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sophy Baird
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eva Sievers
Science
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernard Bernards
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michelle Achterberg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Neeltje van den Bedem
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diana Suhardiman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Coen Wirtz
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Alex Geert Castermans
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Cristiana Strava
Faculty of Humanities