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"Toddler Time". How are preschoolers supposed to behave?
Children of preschool age are increasingly understanding what adults expect of them. What rules of behavior do these children learn from their fathers and mothers in certain cultures within the Netherlands?
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Nancy Kula: ‘Languages are very diverse’
Nancy Kula has been Professor of African Linguistics since 1 February. Now is a good time to hear more about her field of expertise and academic interests.
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Marijana Vujosevic
Faculty of Humanities
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Ursula Kilkelly
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jessie Pool
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sophy Baird
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lucy Opoka
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Katrien Klep
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ann Skelton
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mariëlle Bruning
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ton Liefaard
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vasiliki Kosta lectures on cultural diversity at EUI Summer Course on “The Law of the European Union”
Dr. Vicky Kosta (Europa Institute, Leiden University), together with Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne (University of Edinburgh), provided a course on “Cultural Diversity and European Law” at the EUI’s Academy of European Law two-week summer course in June 2023.
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Plant occurrence in space and time: the importance of land use, habitat structure, and pollination mode
Plant diversity is essential for us and our planet as it sustains the stability of our ecosystems, provides vital materials and food to us and supports many ecosystem services.
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New Governance of Migration and Diversity master’s programme responds to topical issues
From September 2024 onwards, Leiden University’s Europa Institute will teach a new LL.M. programme on the Governance of Migration and Diversity [GMD]. Programme Chair Moritz Jesse says, ‘We need lawyers who are well-informed about the historical, sociological and political background of migration.’
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‘We’re undermining science and that’s a great shame’
Kerstin Perez has reached the position of Assistant Professor of Particle Physics at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For people from minority groups this is by no means a common experience. Perez will explain how improvements can be made at the annual Diversity and Inclusion…
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‘There’s a difference between inclusion and change’
If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University’s annual Diversity Symposium on 22 January. She is Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at University College London. We spoke to her beforehand.
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Ahmed Mahfouz: 'The mystery of brain diseases, unravelled cell by cell'
Which brain cell does what, when Parkinson's disease arises? It won't be long before this jigsaw is solved piece by piece. Ahmed Mahfouz, computational biologist, combines bio-knowledge from Leiden with algorithms from Delft and is getting closer to finding the key.
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Electrical and magnetic properties of ferritin: electron transport phenomena and electron paramagnetic resonance
Ferritin is a spherical metalloprotein, capable of storing and releasing iron in a controllable way. It is composed of a protein shell of about 12 nm and within its cavity, iron is stored in a mineral form.
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Ultrasensitive in situ visualization of active glucocerebrosidase molecules
Deficiency of glucocerebrosidase (GBA) underlies Gaucher disease, a common lysosomal storage disorder. Carriership for Gaucher disease has recently been identified as major risk for parkinsonism. Presently, no method exists to visualize active GBA molecules in situ. We here report the design, synthesis…
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Clinical applications of (pharmaco)metabolomics
The predication of the effect (efficiency and toxicity) of a drug in a patient is very important in (i) clinical decision support and (ii) the development of novel drug treatments. We apply our technology and methods to find biomarkers for key disease pathways and toxicity in clinical studies and in…
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Macromolecular Biochemistry
Macromolecular Biochemistry is a section of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry at Leiden University, comprising the PIs Marcellus Ubbink, Remus Dame, Aimee Boyle, Lars Jeuken and Anne Wentink.
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Cum laude PhD defence: natural seed bank drives diversity
Each year, poppies disperse seeds that grow into a new generation of flowers. Sometimes, some of the seeds postpone their germination for a few years, for example when they’re covered by a layer of sand. Only when the sand disappears, do they start to sprout. Margriet Oomen did mathematical research…
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Gender and Ethnic Diversity Assessment tool wins Synergy Award
Tessa van de Rozenberg and Daudi van Veen won the Synergy Award last month during a yearly conference of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The PhD - candidates from Leiden University College The Hague won the prize for their idea to develop a diagnostic tool for publishers to examine gender and ethnic…
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Hortus Leiden helps to protect plant diversity around the world
The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, a world-wide effort by the botanist and plant protection community, is making considerable progress in protecting plant diversity around the world, a new report says. The Hortus botanicus Leiden is one of the partners of the project.
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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A diverse meadow is less easy to damage
Plant communities consisting of many different species are less vulnerable to attacks of plant eating animals or diseases than less diverse communities. It also helps if plant species in one community are not closely related to each other. That is the outcome of an international study published in Nature…
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Symposium: The making of an inclusive Leiden University. Do's and Don'ts
What do we need to do for Leiden University to become a truly inclusive institution, where everyone feels at home and has equal opportunities? This is the key question at the annual symposium on diversity and inclusiveness on 1 December. If you would like to put your views, sign up now!
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LU Pride: ‘It's great that there's a club where you don't feel different!'
Fifty years ago a group of students started the Leiden Student Working Group on LGBT. Today students can contact Leiden University Pride and for staff there is the LGBTQ+ Core Network. Five questions for Kirsten de Mare, student of linguistics and chair of LU Pride.
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Psychology Connected on inequality: 'More diversity in research? Then also recruit participants differently'
In our collective journey to bridge social, economic, and cultural inequality in society, we must al play a part, says Wilco van Dijk. Unfortunately, notes Carolien Rieffe, minority groups are often not included in this 'we.' This became a focal point of discussion during the fifth Psychology Connected…
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Dissertation: Is it One Nile? The complexity and diversity of the world's longest river
Abeer Abazeed, PhD-student at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, will defend her thesis on Wednesday april 21st. Four questions about her PhD-research ‘Is it One Nile? Civic engagement and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin’.
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Unity in diversity. The topicality of Professor C. van Vollenhoven
On 8 February Jan Michiel Otto, professor of Law and Governance in Developing Countries, delivered the dies lecture entitled: 'Unity in diversity. The topicality of professor C. van Vollenhoven'. Otto emphasized - following Van Vollenhoven - the importance of scope and respect for the public sphere…
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Diverse teams participate in Leiden Science Run
On Saturday 28 September we will be running again, for scholars at risk during the Leiden Science Run. Already 56 teams have registered, from Leiden and The Hague students to scientists and companies. There are still spots left for more teams!
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Bart Barendregt on Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity
Bart Barendregt explains his new Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity in an interview on the Unesco website.
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In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research
The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…
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Saniye Çelik on Diversity in the Police Force
The Dutch police force is struggling with diversity. Women, officers who are gay or come from a non-western background often feel unsafe within the police force. That was the message of this week’s startling distress call by police coach Carel Boers, who has been a consultant for the police management…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Artificial intelligence not geared towards our diverse society is dangerous
Women, the elderly, LGBT people and children are all at risk because artificial intelligence, algorithms and exoskeletons are tailored to the straight white male. Research conducted by Leiden University aims to ensure that new developments work for everyone.
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Carolien Rieffe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carlotta Rigotti
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dilara Erzeybek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Natashe Lemos Dekker
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Isabel Hoving
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzanne Mol
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Cramer
Science
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Sandra Groeneveld
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter Pels
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Igor Boog
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kinetics for drug discovery – The first step towards an improved drug discovery paradigm
Supervisor: Indira Nederpelt
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Data Analytics and Management
Our group is part of the Metabolomics and Analytics Centre where we accompany the data from its acquisition all the way to the publication of identified associations and biomarkers for a range of human diseases. The generated data of the metabolic measurements are assessed using an in-house quality…