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Blog Post | Science diplomacy from the Global South: New insights, venues for investigation, and lessons learned
Science diplomacy, broadly defined as all activities at the intersection of science and foreign policy, has become a buzzword during the past ten years.
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
From 19 to 21 September 2018 the third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) will take place at Leiden University. The theme of the conference will be 'Interfaces'.
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Lucia Langerak: ‘I'm not one to sit on the sidelines’
Lucia Langerak was awarded a Master’s degree in Egyptology with cum laude honours in 2018. Her bachelor’s degree was also with cum laude honours. ‘I’m an exceptional Egyptologist, if only because I’ve never been to Egypt.’ She is now the coordinator of the Access & Support Platform at the University…
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Healthcare and population health: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam
‘Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ The three universities in Zuid-Holland are helping make these gains. Three researchers talk about their collaborative research into AI for health, drug discovery and healthcare in the AI knowledge cluster in Zuid-Holland.…
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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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Central Crisis Team: ‘It sometimes comes down to the last second’
It’s the middle of the academic year, but most of the University buildings are closed – something that hasn’t happened since the Second World War. Fortunately, after a week of intensive preparations, the teaching has moved online. How is the Central Crisis Team steering the University through the corona…
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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Alumna Amber Brantsen: ‘Allow yourself to make mistakes’
A glowing first-time mother-to-be with an impressive CV for someone of her age, newsreader Amber Brantsen would seem to lead a charmed life. ‘But I began to resent that image,’ says the Leiden Public Administration alumna. This led her to write the impressive and personal Uit Beeld (Out of the Picture).…
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They want to be in Leiden's council
Many students and members of staff at Leiden University are politically active. In the run up to the local elections on 21 March candidates in The Hague and Leiden explain why you should vote for them, and what they want to do if they are elected. In this article, the Leiden candidates.
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Thriller writer Jeroen Windmeijer: books have their own truth
With cultural anthropology alumnus Jeroen Windmeijer, Leiden has added another writer to the fold. Following the success of his religious-historical thrillers, he has been able to call himself a full-time writer since 1 January 2019. ‘Not a true story but still true.’
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Report: Tracking down green spaces in The Hague in places you don't always want to be
Although there is considerable evidence that nature in the city is beneficial to both people and animals, we still do not have an overall picture of those benefits. To rectify that, a Leiden PhD candidate and a student – armed with a cargo bike – are using The Hague as a life-size laboratory.
- ELS lab meeting - Lecture: Quantitative and qualitative research on effectiveness of supply chain managements by Jaap Baaij
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Daily surveys on social stressors at work and their influence on marital behaviors at home by Helen Pluut
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ELS Academy Midseason Event
Conference
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Discretion and decision making seminar
On 20 & 21 April 2017 international researchers in the field of law and society and criminology presented their work in Brussels and shared ideas on discretion and decision-making.
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Bas Edixhoven Memorial Symposium
Conference
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Leiden did not forget you
Alumni event
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LUCIP FORUM
Lecture
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With these small adjustments we can reduce nitrogen loss in peat meadows
Relatively simple adjustments can reduce nitrogen losses on dairy farms in peatland areas. That’s the conclusion of the PhD research by by Leiden environmental scientist Jeroen Pijlman at the Louis Bolk Institute. Protein-poor grass species and narrow-leaved plantain in the grassland can limit nitrogen…
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From research project to market leader in cycling tours for elderly
‘In Hong Kong, the elderly found our popular nature routes boring, so they now cycle our action-packed routes through New York.’ What once started as an assignment for the Master Programme Media Technology, has grown into the international market leader in the field of virtual reality exercises for…
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ELS lab meeting – Methodology Session: Introduction to Bluetick, AI & Legal Research
Lecture
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: What went wrong? Methodological barriers to ELS by Jessie Pool
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress Session: Working from Home: what empirical questions arise? by Merel Cornax
- ELS lab meeting – Methodology session on social network analysis
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ELS lab meeting – Letter experiments to measure compliance in the financial sector by Sarwesh Iswardat
Lecture
- Conference on Human Rights and Climate Change
- ELS lab meeting - Journal Club: Perspectives on transnational auditing to assess compliance by Phillip Paiement
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: "ELS is a solo endeavour"
- ELS lab meeting - Guest lecture: Law, sustainability and behaviour by prof. Linda Steg
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: “ELS is an interdisciplinary endeavor”
- ELS lab meeting - RESCHEDULED Guest lecture: Prof. Kati Cseres on Gender and competition law
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SPSS workshop ELS@Leiden
Course
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: 'How to measure compliance with a norm?' with Gitta Veldt and Lisa Ansems
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: FAQs about ELS
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ELS lab meeting – Lunch & Learn: ‘Interviews 101: Back to basics'
Lecture
- ELS lab meeting - Lunch & Learn: ELS lab meeting - Pitch your research workshop
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress by jasper Sluijs
- ELS lab meeting: Lunch & Learn with Jessie Pool
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Improving painkiller dosing in the clinic
Children, cardiac surgery patients or people who are obese. How can we improve the dosing of painkillers for these patients? Hospital pharmacist Sjoerd de Hoogd of the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht investigated this. He combined data from the hospital with the knowledge and expertise of the Leiden…
- ELS lab meeting - Work in progress session: A survey on the internalization and effectiveness of constitutional norms by Jelle But
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Online exhibition
TEXTS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT. Highlights from the Collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. Online exhibition on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the foundation ‘Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut’ in 2015.
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Politics and the Holocaust in Modern Poland
Lecture, Seminar
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Exploring the violent end of European empires
Conference, Workshop and book presentation
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
- Statistics Workshop: All hands on Stata
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Introducing: Oran Kennedy
Oran Kennedy
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A hornets’ nest: Leiden University during the Second World War
‘That hornets’ nest in Leiden must be destroyed,’ said Dutch National Socialist Party member Robert van Genechten in November 1942. He was referring to Leiden University. Why this hatred? Emeritus Professor of University History Willem Otterspeer has written a book about Leiden University during the…
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Female Researchers in the Spotlight for Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day
On Thursday November 15th, Leiden University organizes its Physics & Astronomy Ladies' Day for female high school students. To mark this festive day, we put the spotlight on five female researchers, who talk about their experiences working in science.