New master specialisation: Economics and Governance

Manchester University Press heeft onlangs het boek 'Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy' gepubliceerd, geschreven door Nikki Ikani, Universitair Docent Intelligence & Security bij het Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA).

How to bring together different footprints into an integrated family and what are the synergies? What are the roles of inventory analysis and characterization in measuring individual footprints and how these affect a footprint family? How to benchmark environmental footprints against related planetary…

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

This thesis describes the importance of being able to control the selectivity of potential drug candidates.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: J-P. Amorij

With the help of quantum mechanics, digital quantum hardware may be able to tackle some of the problems that are too difficult for ordinary computers. But despite these expectations and the ongoing effort of the research community, reliable quantum computers are not yet realized in a lab setting.

The power of personalized nutrition lies in being able to conduct clinical research on healthy people while capturing metabolic markers sensitive to the impact of environmental and metabolic stressors (e.g. diet, changing sex hormones and the menstrual cycle).

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Promotie

Big Science, commonly defined as conventional science made big in three dimensions, namely organizations, machines, and politics, brings a plethora of different stakeholders together, often for a long period of time. This includes policymakers, scientists, (scientific) managers as well as local “host”…

In today's volatile market environments, companies must be able to continuously innovate. In this context, innovation does not only refer to the development of new products or business models but often also affects the entire organization, which has to transform its structures, processes, and ways of…

The focus of this thesis is how stars like our Sun and planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Earth are formed.

In order to be able to develop effective medicine and treatments to prevent or cure autoimmune diseases or cancer we need to understand the mechanisms how they arise and what drives their course.Unravelling the fundamental molecular mechanisms influencing the onset and course of diseases such as allergies,…

Bacteria often experience external challenges, such as changes in environmental conditions or attacks by bacteriophages.

In this thesis, we extend the concept of null models as canonical ensembles of multi-graphs with given constraints and present new metrics able to characterize real-world layered systems based on their correlation patterns.

Studievoorlichting

De wetenschappelijke onderbouwing van beleid wordt cruciaal geacht voor goed bestuur. Maar ondanks de overvloed aan beschikbare kennis uit onderzoek en evaluaties, weten we nog maar weinig over de daadwerkelijke invloed die dergelijke evidence heeft op overheidsbeleid. Het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Power…

Hoe kunnen we sociale cohesie bevorderen in een samenleving die cultureel en religieus divers is?

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…

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Using the principles of Industrial Ecology in Environmental Policy making in two cases: transition to a hydrogen economy and chlorinated compounds.

Creating information portals for support of European environmental policy.

Public Administration is a major refereed journal publishing articles on public administration, public policy and public management.

In this work the reconstruction of a tau neutrino signal in the KM3NeT detector is discussed.

Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. J.G.E.M. Fraaije, Co-promotor: A. Kros

In the CarbonCap project, consumption oriented technological options and policy measures are identified as an addition to the present EU and world climate policy.

Hoe kunnen we de uitvoering van EU beleid begrijpen en welke uitdagingen spelen daarbij een rol?

A new environmental accounting framework using externality data and input-output tools for policy analysis.

Op 7 december 2021 verdedigde Georgina Kuipers het proefschrift 'Beschadigd vertrouwen'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door prof.mr. W. den Ouden en prof.dr. M.A. van der Steen (EUR).

De Leidse politicologen Yvonne Kleistra en Niels van Willigen hebben het State Department van de Verenigde Staten geadviseerd over beleidsevaluatie. Uitgangspunt daarbij was een wetenschappelijk model dat Kleistra en Van Willigen hebben ontwikkeld op grond van werk voor het Nederlandse Ministerie van…

Hoe weet de overheid of wetenschapsbeleid het gewenste effect heeft? Volgens hoogleraar Barend van der Meulen zijn een variëteit aan kennis over de effectiviteit en goed verzamelen ervan belangrijker dan een strikte wetenschappelijke methode. Oratie op 27 maart.

De afdeling Overheid, Markt en Maatschappij van het Instituut Bestuurskunde onderzoekt hoe politiek en bestuur, bedrijven, burgers en maatschappelijke organisaties samenwerken om grote maatschappelijke uitdagingen aan te pakken. Denk hierbij aan vraagstukken zoals ongelijkheid, migratie en duurzaamh…

Indicators to measure progress in de-linking economic growth and environmental pressure.

In 2020 sloot Campo Alegre, het grote openluchtbordeel op Curaçao. Inmiddels willen verschillende politieke partijen dit bordeel weer openen. Promovenda Mariëlle Kleijn praat hierover op Paradise.fm.

Moritz Jesse has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair by the European Commission. In his MIND-EU Project he will focus on a coherent way to teach Migration, Integration, and Non-Discrimination at Leiden Law School at bachelor and master level.

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

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Development of an aggregated impact indicator to measure decoupling.

Het Instituut Bestuurskunde werkt aan complexe problemen waar de publieke sector in de 21ste eeuw mee te maken heeft: van klimaatbeleid tot de gevolgen van de digitalisering. De onderzoekers van het Instituut Bestuurskunde analyseren, duiden en denken mee over oplossingen voor de maatschappelijke uitdagingen…

Aan de hand van drie onderzoekslijnen wordt de verbinding tussen zorg en bestuur gemaakt. Binnen deze drie onderzoekslijnen wordt een multi-level benadering gehanteerd. Dat betekent dat we ons richten op vraagstukken op het niveau van het gezondheidszorgstelsel, het niveau van organisaties en netwerken…

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…

Learning from small data sets in machine learning is a crucial challenge, especially when dealing with data imbalances and anomaly detection. This thesis delves into the challenges and methodologies of learning from small datasets in machine learning, with a particular focus on addressing data imbalances…

De afdeling Beleid en Innovatie van het Instituut Bestuurskunde richt zich op het vormgeven, implementeren en evalueren van beleid met innovatieve benaderingen. Ons doel is om complexe maatschappelijke uitdagingen aan te pakken door technologische vooruitgang en creatieve beleidsinstrumenten te onde…

The main research question of this thesis was: Can nitrogen cycling on dairy farms on peat soil in the Dutch Green Heart area be improved by adapting management to the nitrogen supply from soil and by using other grassland species and crops without affecting milk production?

This thesis describes the design, characterization and application of dextran based crosslinked network.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-Promotor: A.J. Knobbe

This thesis describes the development and optimization of the first molecular tools to study the enzyme PLA2G4E.

This work describes the use of click-to-release chemistry to get spatiotemporal control over immunocytokine activity. Until now, immunocytokines (cytokines coupled to a tumor-targeting-moiety) remained active throughout the body, being able to bind their respective receptors, causing mild to severe…