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The Chinese diaspora, race and US foreign policy
The project focusses on how US views of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia influenced its strategic interpretations of the region. Being eleven million strong, dispersed across the region and sharing ethnic ties with Communist China, interpretations of the diaspora intersected with key Cold War…
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Satellite remote sensing of plant functional diversity
Biodiversity enables ecosystems to thrive through the synergy of functional differences among organisms. While human well-being strongly depends on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services, human actions are also at the root of current unprecedented biodiversity declines.
- Second World War
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Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy
On 26 juni 2018, Claire Achmad defended her doctoral thesis 'Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. Dr. Mariëlle Bruning.
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Health Data Science special interest group
Health Data Science Leiden University
- Wageningen University
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Diversity & Inclusion
The importance of diversity and inclusion within society and its institutions can never be understated. In an interdependent, globalised world, we are more connected than ever, but we also face the risks of being more polarized than ever due to misunderstanding and misinformation. It is, therefore,…
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Sheltering 10 billion people in a warming and resource-scarce world: challenges and opportunities
Sheltering is an immediate human need and determines well-being andhealth.
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Jean-Luc Wolfender
Professor at the School of pharmaceutical sciences, University of Geneva - Switzerland
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Education in sustainability
Leiden University enables students to play a role in the sustainability challenges of the coming decades. Good scientific research and education are crucial for a safe, healthy, sustainable, prosperous and just world. In Leiden students are being taught the knowledge and skills that are important for…
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Central Asia Initiative
The Central Asia Initiative is funded by the Leiden research profile area Asian Modernities and Traditions with the purpose to establish Central Asian Studies at Leiden University.
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Steering Group
The following people are part of the Steering Group for Academia in Motion.
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The European courtroom as political arena
The European courtroom as political arena? Judicial interference in politically charged issues in European asylum law and criminal law
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Faculties
There are different ways in which the faculties of Leiden University keep in touch with their alumni.
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Memorials
A well-written submission, a logically built-up argument is easier for a judge to understand.
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Involvement in Bullying and Personality
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De rechtspraakverzamelingen van Julius Paulus
On 23 oktober 2018, Elsemieke Daalder defended her doctoral thesis 'De rechtspraakverzamelingen van Julius Paulus'. The doctoral research was supervised by prof. mr. W.J. Zwalve and Prof. mr. E. Koops.
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Experiences with the Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient in nursing home residents
The Liverpool care pathway for the dying patient (LCP) is a multidisciplinary tool developed for the dying phase for use in palliative care settings. The literature reports divergent experiences with its application in a nursing home setting related to its implementation and staff competencies. The…
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Empirical Legal Studies
Empirical Legal Studies in Leiden focuses on building an interdisciplinary community of legal scholars and social scientists who collaboratively explore legal questions on the intersection of law and behavior using a variety of methods.
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Gorlaeus Lecture Hall
The west side of the campus square is occupied by the Gorlaeus Lecture Hall, known as ‘the dish’. This building houses the largest lecture halls of Leiden University, which welcome hundreds of students every day. It also has Leiden’s largest solar panel roof, with 1241 solar panels.
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Dividing Worlds
Dividing Worlds: Tsunamis, Seawalls, and Ontological Politics in Northeast Japan
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Journal Observatory – Toward integrated information about the openness of scholarly journals
Lots of efforts are being made to promote open science practices in scholarly publishing. However, information on the openness of scholarly journals is highly fragmented. There are various data sources that provide information on specific aspects of openness, but there is hardly any integration of these…
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Spanish
The Academic Language Centre of Leiden University offers a range of Spanish courses at different levels. General Language Course, Summer Course and Custom-made and In-company courses.
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Centre for Professional Learning
The Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) develops in-depth and challenging programmes for higher educated professionals.
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Dialoog in recht en literatuur
On 18 september 2018, Claudia Bouteligier defended her doctoral thesis 'Dialoog in recht en literatuur. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. mr. dr. A. Ellian.
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Chinese
These courses address all language skills: speaking, writing, listening and reading.
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Resilience Center Leiden
The Resilience Center Leiden investigates how stress impacts the mental health of young people. For that, the team studies a multitude of factors, such as childhood experiences, the social environment, psychological factors, and neurobiological factors. With this multidimensional approach, we aim to…
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Stress or study delay?
Being a student can be stressful. Study pressure, living on your own, moving country, financial stress: things can be difficult. Unexpected difficulties may lead to study delay.
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Everyday Lived Islam in Europe
This book offers a new direction for the study of contemporary Islam by focusing on what being Muslim means in people’s everyday lives.
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Research
Central elements in the research activities of all programme group members are: attachment, sensitive caregiving, and prevention and intervention.
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Big data in archaeology: harnessing the hidden knowledge in the “graveyard” of Malta reports
The goal is to establish an intuitive search and querying service that allows researchers to quickly retrieve the most valuable digital resources, in order to allow them to integrate and synthesise the results into a coherent narrative of the past. The current focus of the project is to implement…
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Bureaucratic Selection and Politics: Evidence from Teachers in Brazil
Does becoming a public sector employee change a person’s political beliefs, behaviors and interactions with the state? Do public teachers hold the same values as other professionals and the general Brazilian public?
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Tell Sabi Abyad II – The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement
Report on the Excavations of the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden in the Balikh Valley, Syria.
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Parenting, Child Care and Development
The programme group Parenting, Child Care and Development studies how parents and other educators affect children's development, well-being and health. The emphasis is on the child's social, emotional and cognitive development and prevention of problems in these areas.
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About LCN2
Mission statement
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Leiden Healthy Society Center
The Leiden Healthy Society Center is a joint initiative between Leiden University's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Leiden Municipality.
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The role of trust in economic decisions
What are the essential determinants of (dis)trust? And, what are the effects of being (dis)trusted?
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Twitter attacks on Hillary Clinton are about gender, rather than politics
Political scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) and computational sociolinguist Dirk Hovy (University of Copenhagen) analyse how much hostility and sexism Clinton faces on Twitter, as well as who seems to be behind such attacks.
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De wereld van taalwetenschap
Taal als sleutel tot het begrijpen van de mens.
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Dual PhD programme
The Dual PhD Centre facilitates dual PhD research at Leiden University. The dual PhD programme of the Dual PhD Centre offers professionals the opportunity to devote part of their working time to conducting PhD research. Be aware that this programma is being offered in Dutch only.
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Italian
These courses address all language skills: speaking, writing, listening and reading.
- Persian
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German
German courses at the Academic Language Centre: General language courses and Tailor-made and In-company training.
- Swedish
- Korean
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Art, Agency, and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy
This programme adopts a new approach based on the paradoxical nature of these responses in early modern Italy: it draws on rhetorical discussions of lifelikeness and living presence, and it uses the anthropological theory of art as agency developed by Alfred Gell.
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From Homo Economicus to Political Animal
Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.
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Economics and Governance (MSc)
The Economics and Governance specialisation of the Master in Public Administration teaches you to formulate problem-solving approaches to concrete policy issues found at the intersection between economics and public administration, specifically focusing on welfare states and markets. This specialisation…
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Cancer pathogenesis and therapy
With cancer, a person’s body cells grow uncontrollably. Putting together a detailed picture of how this comes about makes it possible to develop efficient therapies. Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Leiden University are working together to gain a better understanding…
- Week 2: 13-19 January 2019