Dit artikel onderzoekt de publieke perceptie van terroristische aanslagen door het belang te meten dat het publiek toekent aan kenmerken van terroristische aanslagen.

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya. In dit artikel, gepubliceerd in op de website SAGE Journals in het Journal of Conflict Resolution, onderzoeken de auteurs Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, Eamon Aloyo de houding ten opzichte…

Dit artikel wil een coherente basis bieden voor empirische studies naar interpersoonlijke discussies over risico's.

In dit artikel onderzochten Martin Sievert en Jonas Bruder of en hoe administratieve lasten van invloed zijn op de perceptie van burgers van het welzijnsbeleid en hun houding tegenover uitkeringsgerechtigden.

The experiments described in this thesis employ local lentiviral knockdowns in brain areas of female zebra finches followed by behavioural assays consisting of preference and Go/Nogo tasks.

While ecosystems have concrete benefits for human society, these benefits are typically overlooked in decision-making.

Promotor: G.A. Persoon, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Op maandag 3 september strijkt het ARC-forum (art_research_convergence) neer in het Haagse The Grey Space in the Middle. Het platform, geïnitieerd door de Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) en gericht op artistiek onderzoek, staat tijdens deze sessie in het teken van de…

In this project of the Center for Public Values & Ethics (CPVE) ongoing research is conducted on the history of advice to Dutch central government by so-called State committees from 1814 to 2014. State committees have been installed by Dutch central government since 1814 to provide expert advice, research…

The Research Training Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War” invites scholars to submit paper proposals for a series of sessions on “Perceptions of Just War in the Middle Ages” at the IMC 2025. These sessions aim to explore the diverse theological, philosophical, legal, and cultural…

Hoe kan de geschiedenis worden achterhaald uit een ongedateerde mythologische tekst van een onbekend auteur? Op deze vraag zal prof.dr. Peter Bisschop aanstaande vrijdag ingaan tijdens zijn oratie getiteld

Jim Been, Universitair Docent bij de Afdeling Economie, heeft 28 januari jongstleden de Netspar Ph.D. Thesis Award in ontvangst mogen nemen voor zijn proefschrift getiteld “Pensions, Retirement, and the Financial Position of the Elderly”.

Do Ethiopian wolves change their diet and foraging strategy in the landscape under different land uses? How land use affect Afro-alpine rodent Communities? How important are Afro-alpine natural resources utilisation for local livelihoods? What is the human perception of conflict in the Afro-alpine a…

This thesis is about augmented reality (AR). AR is commonly considered a technology that integrates virtual images into a user’s view of the real world.

In september 2018 heeft Marcel Cobussen samen met Cilia Erens en Irene van Kamp, in opdracht van het stadsbestuur van Leiden, een rapport uitgebracht over het sonisch herontwerpen van de Garenmarkt in Leiden.

Human vocal communication and music perception represent advanced cognitive skills, seemingly innate and universal. These faculties encompass a range of perceptual and cognitive abilities. Cross-species research sheds light on the origins of musicality by investigating whether these traits are shared…

What is leadership? Can it be taught, and if so, how? The International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) helps students find their own style, say ILLP graduate Marko Simovski and his former coach Annah Neve in an interview: 'It’s about you, discovering you.'

What is movements and corridors of the Bornean pygmy elephant in Sebuku forest? What is the nature of human-elephant conflict in Nunukan District in time and space? What are the diets of the Bornean elephants related to crop raiding?

In Nederland doet het CDA onder eigen naam mee bij de aankomende waterschapsverkiezingen,maar in Limburg dient de partij al vijftien jaar geen kieslijsten in en worden de belangen behartigd door negen lokale partijen. Dit om zoveel mogelijk invloed uit te kunnen oefenen bij regionale problemen, zoals…

In dit interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma werken onderzoekers uit vijf verschillende disciplines met elkaar samen. Zij stellen zich hieronder (in het Engels) aan u voor.

Het American Journal of Comparative Law (Fall 2016, pp. 790-94) heeft een zeer positieve recensie gepubliceerd van het boek van Sofia Ranchordas getiteld ‘Constitutional Sunsets and Experimental Legislation’ (Edward Elgar). Het boek is gebaseerd op haar proefschrift waarop zij in 2014 cum laude is…

How do you make a technology sustainable that does not even exist yet? Well, by bringing together an interdisciplinary team of pioneering European experts right at the start and paying attention to sustainability right from the development phase.

What is the population size/structure and distribution of tiger and leopard inside the Bardia National Park (BNP) compared with the population outside? What is the movement and home range and conflict pattern in time and space of tigers and leopards inside the BNP compared with outside? What constitutes…

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.

Promotor: J.M. Memelink

'Vertel me iets wat ik nog niet weet', zei schaatstrainer Jac Orie tegen de Leidse datawetenschapper Arno Knobbe. Dat lukte; inmiddels ondersteunen Knobbe en zijn collega's sporters op allerlei manieren met behulp van data mining.

What holds people together and what makes them willing to fit within larger political structures? Our project examines this question in the practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasia ca. 1300-1800.

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

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The idea of citizens and public professionals collaborating to provide public services has widely spread in several countries around the globe. Co-production is often presented as the go-to solution for challenges like a legitimacy crisis of both the government and the market, and financial concerns.…

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.V.J. Linnartz

Can we provide the Dutch government with an integrative framework, wherein the various policies can be placed and the need for further measures can be identified?

This ecological community has long been known to affect host biology, and their diverse roles have been further clarified in recent years following numerous studies of animal:microbiota interactions in diverse systems.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. de Jong

Increasing the efficiency of gene targeting (GT) as a genome editing tool in plants has been an important goal in plant biotechnology.

Ethiopian wolves are endangered diurnal Afroalpine rodent hunters. I investigated the interaction between wolves, rodents and human land use in Borena Sayint National Park (BSNP), Abune Yosef and Aboi Gara in Ethiopia.

To get an idea of the science communication products and research that is possible, a few examples of student projects of recent years are shown below.

This thesis presents the first synthetic peptides ADP-ribosylated on serine, threonine, tyrosine, arginine and cysteine.

Multicellular giant algae Chara species have been widely used in physiological studies for decades.

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

The Dutch atlas with pesticides concentrations in surface waters have been overhauled. This new, free accessible, website is in line with the European Framework Directive on Water (In Dutch: KRW).

A remarkable population of short period transiting rocky exoplanets with equilibrium temperatures on the order of 2,000 K has recently been discovered.

Carbohydrates are present on the surface of bacteria making them suitable antigen candidates for vaccine development. This thesis deals with the synthesis of two carbohydrate-based components; the capsular polisaccharide of S. aureus type 5 and teichoic acids from staphilococci and enterococci speci…

Traditional drug discovery approaches have been hampered by (in vitro) cell-culture models that poorly represent the situation in the human body.