2,166 search results for “sustainable development” in the Public website
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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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NWO grant gives way to more sustainable production of antibiotics
The opportunity to explore a new, exciting research topic. That is how Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski describes his successful application for the NWO XS grant. It comprises 50,000 euros, which the researcher from the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) will spend on investigating a more sustainable…
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The developing brain and behaviour
The more opportunities a child has to learn and develop, the stronger his or her future position in society. Leiden University investigates how the brain picks up information, and how learning processes can be influenced positively.
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Andrea Spruijt
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David Zetland
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Inge van der Weijden
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kiki Spaninks
Science
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Evelien Urbanus
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Christine Mummery
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Sheila van Berkel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Barbara Gravendeel
Science
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Jimena Pacheco Miranda
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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George Miley
Science
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Marja Oudega
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ili Ma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Nienke Wieringa
ICLON
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Marieke Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Zijian Li
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Shannon Yuen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
Faculty of Humanities
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Ana Arias Calvo
Science
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Sustainable City Lab will ‘set to work on sustainability in our own backyard’
The Sustainable City Lab The Hague will be a hub that connects organisations in The Hague that work on sustainability with the research and teaching at Leiden University. ‘We’re going to set to work on complex sustainability challenges in our own backyard,’ says project leader Eefje Cuppen.
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Smart data for sustainable agriculture: less hassle, more green
In supermarkets, consumers are drowning in a sea of sustainability labels. Confusing for them, but also farmers can't see the forest for the trees. Obtaining these labels demands an enormous amount of time and effort. Berent Baris is investigating ways to simplify this process, benefiting both farmers…
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University Rebellion wants more attention for sustainability
Tell the truth about sustainability, become climate neutral by 2025 and safeguard democracy within the University. These are, in short, the demands of a petition by University Rebellion, a subgroup of the Extinction Rebellion movement. On 19 November they visited all Dutch universities, including Le…
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comprehensive understanding of (facilitating) teacher professional development
What are ‘missing links’ in research on teacher professional development trajectories? We focus on the role and development of teacher facilitators in designing and implementing (collaborative) professional development trajectories.
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Students make recommendations for more sustainable university
Leiden University is working on sustainability and should give its efforts more publicity. This is the conclusion of Industrial Ecology master’s students who investigated the extent to which Leiden University is green and sustainable.
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Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia
The proposed research program studies the impact of private foreign investment on development in Indonesia during the years c. 1910-1960.
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Gene regulation in embryonic development
The human body consists of hundreds, perhaps thousands of different types of cells, each with different morphologies and functions, despite having the same genome.
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong on Vanuatu resolution on addressing the climate crisis
Vanuatu, a Pacific island state vulnerable to rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms, initiated a resolution to be submitted to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday 29 March 2023.
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How fungi are helping us be more sustainable
Professor of Fungal Genetics and Biotechnology Arthur Ram explains how fungi can help us be more sustainable.
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Students: ‘We want to be the most sustainable university in the world’
The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the most sustainable university in the world by 2030. Students Janey Franssen and Job Kemperman are two of the paper’s authors. How do they want to achieve…
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Genetic risk & atypical development: 22q11 Syndrome
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New lecture series on sustainability
What are the implications for life on Earth of the declining numbers of insects? How does the ever increasing stream of of energy and material flowing through our cities impact the global environmental ? Find out the answers to these and more questions on sustainability in the new monthly lecture series…
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Dietsje Jolles
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Hanna Swaab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marianne van Dijken
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Regulation of vegetative development and life history strategy in plants
How is vegetative development regulated in plants and how does this affect a plant’s life history strategy?
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Leiden University third in sustainability ranking
Leiden University is in third place in the SustainaBul sustainability ranking. Students from eleven research universities and nine universities of applied sciences took part in the ranking.
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Leiden University biggest climber in sustainability ranking
‘Over the last few years we have focused much more on our environmental policy and have got better at telling the world what we do,’ says Jan van der Boon, Director of Administration at the Leiden University Administration and Central Services Department. This is how he explains Leiden’s impressive…
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Brain and Development
What is the relation between brain development and social and cognitive development across childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
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Education and organisation development
Education and Organisation Development
- teacher professional development
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Leiden’s environmental research as new professor of Environmental sustainability
How can we best deal with the current problems caused by the human impact on the nitrogen cycle? How do we make the transition to a sustainable society? As of 1 September, nitrogen expert Jan Willem Erisman will be working on these questions at Leiden University: he will exchange the Louis Bolk Institute…
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Collaborative and effective drug development
There are many complex links in the chain that provides patients with new drugs: from fundamental science, to clinical tests, to production. The entire chain can be found in Leiden. Leiden University, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and the businesses at the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP)…
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Personal and professional development
The University encourages you, as members of our staff, to use and develop your talents.
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Towards an ecological approach to teacher professional development
The aim of this thesis was to develop and evaluate a Ecological Professional Development Model to support preservice biology teachers to direct their own subject-specific ecological professional development route.
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Leiden University more sustainable by the day
10 October is the Day of Sustainability. What is the current status of sustainability at Leiden University? Things are moving ahead. Professor of Environmental Biology and Dean of the Faculty of Science, Geert de Snoo, outlines a new prospect: biodiversity.
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LUGO Discussion: Sustainability in Leiden University
Always wanted to give your input on sustainability for the university's new Strategic Plan? Join LUGO's discussion session!