2,472 search results for “diversity” in the Public website
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Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture
The Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture organises public and scholarly events to promote the rich Arabic culture and to celebrate the long Leiden tradition of studying it in all its diverse expressions.
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PhD Committee
The PhD Committee is a bottom-up initiative that aims to create an open, active, and fun environment for all PhD candidates at Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology.
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Which grass is greener?
This inspiring collection adds stories to the fact that 68% of PhDs in the Netherlands continue their career outside academia.
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Asyèt yo, Ollas, and Vasijas: situating pottery production in the circum-Caribbean through a technological perspective
This dissertation takes a technological approach to ceramic production and provides a fine-grained view of the circum-Caribbean region.
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About the programme
This specialisation offers a structured, intensive curriculum balancing substantive and skills-oriented courses, including a number of elective seminars, plus a research thesis.
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Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development
Are you interested to learn more about frontier innovation thinking and practices? Do you want to explore the societal relevance of frugal innovation? Are you up for a multidisciplinary challenge? Do you want to combine theory and practice? If you are answering these questions affirmatively, you are…
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Modern Drug Discovery
How are new drugs developed? This question is central to the Minor Modern Drug Discovery (MDD), which covers the entire trajectory from disease to drug molecule and vice versa. The various research groups involved offer a complementary and interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the diverse subjects…
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Continuing your studies
The master’s programme in Archaeology at Leiden University is the most diverse in the Netherlands. There are several regional and thematic focus areas and research is incorporated in the education programme. Join our international classroom: half of the students come from outside The Netherlands, as…
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Continuing your studies
If you want to follow a full academic programme, the next step after obtaining your bachelor’s is a master’s degree (MA) at a Dutch or international university. And there may be no better place for your further master’s study than Leiden University!
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Ecological functions and environmental fate of exopolymers of Acidobacteria
Acidobacteria is a widely distributed phylum but their functional roles in ecosystem processes are still largely elusive.
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Applications of Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents to Extraction and Preservation of Biomolecules
The recently introduced nature-originated deep eutectic solvents, so-called natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) are considered as truly green solvents, which composed of natural ingredients found abundantly in organisms.
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Deep learning for visual understanding
With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.
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Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE
Tero Alstola defended his thesis on 21 December 2017
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Career prospects
After graduation you have a lot of opportunities: academics are highly sought after in Dutch secondary education or mbo teaching. You can also aim for a management position or work as a researcher within the field of Computer Sciences.
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Democracy and Representation (MSc)
Does democracy still work? How does political representation function in times of fragmentation, populism and polarization? You will study the challenges that established and new democracies face.
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Continuing your studies
The master’s programme in Archaeology at Leiden University is the most diverse in the Netherlands. There are several regional and thematic focus areas and research is incorporated in the education programme. Join our international classroom: half of the students come from outside The Netherlands, as…
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Related master’s programmes
Did you know that after succesful completion of the minor American Studies, you can apply for the master’s programme North American Studies? Find out more below.
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Studying and living in The Hague
The Hague is a real student city and has everything you’ll need to turn your time as a student into the time of your life.
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Jeu d'argile: céramique, indentité culturelle, créolisation
Une étude archéo-anthropologique de la céramique des sociétés caribéennes multiculturelles de la période précoloniale à nos jours
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‘Being a slave’ Indian ocean slavery in local context
What did it mean to be enslaved in in the Indian Ocean world in the 18th and 19th centuries? Over the last decades, historians have mined French, British, Portuguese and Dutch records for quantitative data on the European slave trade. This project focuses on the experience of being a slave and seeks…
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Energy Survival Guide
This book provides the answers, presenting clear insights into the current state of affairs and exploring future prospects.
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Stereoelectronic and conformational effects in oxocarbenium, iminium and iminosugar ammonium ions
Promotor: G.A. van der Marel, Co-promotor: J.D.C. Codée
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Lab facilities Social and Organisational Psychology
Observational, cognitive and physiological measurements in social contexts.
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The social brain in adolescence
What is the neural basis of social decision-making across childhood, adolescence and adulthood and what are the developmental patterns in terms of behavior and brain activation?
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When Should the Majority Rule?
Honorata Mazepus, Assisstant Professor at Leiden University, researched the topic of Madisonian Judgments in Five Cultures, together with three other authors.
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The Lives Of Cold War Afro-Asianism
The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project.
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Reconstruction and Computational Modelling for Inherited Metabolic Diseases
Accelerating the diagnosis and personalising the management of inherited metabolic diseases.
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About the vision on teaching and learning
The Learning@LeidenUniversity vision on teaching and learning is about what we want our future graduates to be and what that means for our curricula and our learning environment. It offers a long-term framework for the further development of our education and marks the start of a process of innovati…
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The impact of climate variability on the ecology of a lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758) population and lion livestock conflicts in the Amboseli
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo, Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon
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Clear English Pronunciation
Clear English Pronunciation provides students with the tools to effectively communicate in English without centring solely on native-speaker pronunciation models.
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Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800
This special issue of Media History (22-3/4, 2016), co-edited with Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam), develops a new perspective on the early modern communication revolution. It discusses news as a specific kind of information – by its nature continuous, unreliable, and diffuse – which needed…
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Surviving embryogenesis: The extraembryonic serosa protects the insect egg against desiccation and infection
Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
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Mesoporous silica nanoparticle-based protein delivery systems for biomedical applications
Promotor: A. Kros
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Silva Nova – Restoring soil biology and soil functions to gain multiple benefits in new forests
We will study how inoculation of former arable land with soil (including the microbiome, soil fauna and seeds/rhizomes of ground flora) from old forests along with planting targeted tree species mixtures will improve productivity and more rapidly restore forest-adapted communities and ulttimately result…
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In search of a politesse du chant - Rediscovering salon vocal performance practice through the lens of the airs sérieux in the Recueils d’airs
This dissertation examines the airs sérieux contained within the Recueils d’airs serieux et a boire de differents autheurs published by the Ballard printing house in Paris between 1695 and 1699 inclusive.
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Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…
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Global Music: recasting and Rethinking the Popular as Global
Vertrekkend vanuit een communicatief perspectief en concentrerend op mediatiseringsprocessen, formuleert deze dissertatie een alternatief voor het probleem van equivociteit binnen de studie naar populaire muziek.
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Evolutionary diversification of coral-dwelling gall crabs (Cryptochiridae)
Promotor: Prof.dr. E Gittenberger, Co-Promotores: C.H.J.M. Fransen, Dr. B.W. Hoeksema
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The nature of evidentiality
This project launches a research program into the theoretical status and the terminological basis of evidentiality systems.
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Children's rights in crisis. Multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives
This book rigorously investigates the contemporary state of children's rights and the multifaceted challenges facing children, uncovering the complexities at their core.
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To reduce or to recycle? Urban residents’ views on food waste and food-related packaging practices in The Hague, Netherlands
This study focused on how households' food consumption and waste were adapted to lifestyles during COVID-19.
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Tailoring x-ray tomography techniques for cultural heritage research
Visualizing the internal structure is a crucial step in acquiring knowledge about the origin, state, and composition of cultural heritage artifacts. Among the most powerful techniques for exposing the interior of cultural heritage objects is computed tomography (CT), a technique that computationally…
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Career College: Working as a Consultant
Career and apply for jobs
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Leiden - Indonesia
Leiden University has a long tradition in the collaboration with Indonesia.
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Reputational pragmatism at the European Central Bank: preserving reputation(s) amidst widening climate interventions
In this article, Adriana Cerdeira and Dovile Rimkute explore how certain dynamics shape banks' behaviour.
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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
Chinese materia medica (CMM), comprising a diverse array of natural substances from plants, animals, and minerals, has been integral to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) throughout history. This study investigates the dynamic evolution of CMM, noting shifts in species for improved therapeutic effects…