Heeft de mens een vrije wil? Zien wij de wereld anders dan zij werkelijk is? Kunnen morele oordelen juist of onjuist zijn? Met Filosofie in Leiden stel jij vragen die dwars door de verschillende vakgebieden heenlopen en bestudeer je de theorieën van grote denkers, van vroeger én nu.

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

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Students Practicing Citizen Journalism

How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

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. This specialisation is a unique joint offering of the Department of…

Een nieuw kabinet, brandhaarden in de wereld en natuurlijk veel wetenschap: dit zijn de vijf verhalen van de Universiteit Leiden die jullie graag lazen in 2024.

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Vier teams van studenten van de master European Law en de advanced master European and International Business Law (EIBL) namen dit jaar deel aan de European Law Moot Court (ELMC). Uiteindelijk kwalificeerden twee teams zich voor de regionale finales van de competitie (mondelinge rondes) die dit jaar…

Op 26 juni 2018 verdedigde Claire Achmad haar proefschrift 'Children’s Rights in International Commercial Surrogacy: Exploring the Challenges from a Child Rights, Public International Law Perspective'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof. mr. drs. M.R. Bruning.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

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.

Food security is challenged by a growing global population and by climate change. Drought and soil salinity are considered the most important ones that inhibit crop yield and distribution. Worryingly, climate change is predicted to increase not only their frequency and severity, but also their co-occurrence,…

Promotores: Prof. dr. G.R. (Geert) de Snoo, Dr. E. (Ester) van der Voet

Promotor: J. van der Greef, T. Hankemeier; Co-promotor: H.A. van Wietmarschen

A neuro-ecological perspective on adolescent prosocial development

Taxonomy as a science has accumulated data and knowledge for more than 250 years.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: M.S. Lew

Voltammetry plays a crucial role in modern scientific research by offering valuable insights into the electrochemical properties of materials, with wide-ranging applications in fields such as materials science, energy storage, corrosion studies, and sensor development.

Promotor: R.D. Gill, F. Taroni

Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability: deepening, broadening and leaping forward the LCA methodology.

Promotores: E. van Dijk, G.R. de Snoo. Co-promotor: H. Staats

Promotor: R. Verpoorte, Co-promotores: Y.H.Choi, N.R. Mustafa

Recentelijk is een Special Issue van de European Journal of Criminology verschenen, die is samengesteld door Marieke Liem, Universitair Docent Criminologie bij het Instituut voor Strafrecht & Criminologie, en William Pridemore.

Atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathology of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis is caused by an immune response which is directed against (modified) lipoproteins which accumulate in the vessel wall.

The following report discusses a survey on the topic of the Sustainable Development Goals that was distributed among researchers at Leiden University in the month of November 2021.

The different kinds of cultural perspectives on health and disease of the participants are related to their knowledge, beliefs, values and practices manifested in various forms of lifestyle in Indonesia. The cultural diversity of the population is also related to differences in health behaviour.

This thesis explored the molecular pharmacological mechanisms of targeting CB2R via investigation of novel drug discovery concepts such as target binding kinetics, allosteric modulation and biased signaling.

Promotores: Prof.dr. G. Miley & Prof.dr. J.M. van den Broek

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is among the most widespread species interactions on Earth⁠. This thesis focuses on orchid mycorrhiza, a unique mycorrhizal type that has caught scientists’ attention for centuries⁠.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E. F. van Dishoeck

The application of nanomaterials in industrial processes and consumer products provides many societal benefits, but can also lead to the release of nanomaterials into the environment. The work in this dissertation aims to provide insights into the potential environmental impacts that may follow from…

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.

Wil je een volledige academische opleiding? Dan ga je na je bachelor door met een masteropleiding. Met een masterdiploma op zak heb je meer kans op een baan op academisch niveau. Na afronding krijg je de titel Master of Arts (MA).

Promotor: H.J. van den Herik, B.R. Katzy, Co-promotor: K. Sailer

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This research delves into the unique cultural approach of the Tenggerese people, an Indigenous community in East Java, Indonesia, regarding elderly care. It focuses on their traditional practices of bakti (‘filial piety’) and sayan (‘mutual aid’), deeply ingrained in the community's lifestyle and va…

My colleagues and I have been devastated to learn that our good colleague and friend Stefan Landsberger (born 1955) passed away unexpectedly, on 26 September 2024. Stefan had been a fixture of China Studies in the Netherlands, where he had been Associate Professor of contemporary Chinese History and…

Op 14 februari 2024 overleed prof.dr. Theodoor Marius van Leeuwen, emeritus hoogleraar Remonstrantse Theologie aan de Universiteit Leiden. Het emeritaat van Marius viel min of meer samen met het verdwijnen van de Leidse Theologische Faculteit. Het Remonstrants Seminarium, dat in 1873 vanuit Amsterdam…

Tot onze grote droefheid is op vrijdag 13 september 2024 Victor Halberstadt overleden. Hij was sinds 1974 als hoogleraar Openbare Financiën verbonden aan de Afdeling Economie van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid van de Universiteit Leiden; de laatste jaren als emeritus hoogleraar. Daarnaast bekleedde…

Tijdens de uitreiking van de Christiaan Huygensprijs op 16 oktober, heeft wiskundige Rosa Schwarz een eervolle vermelding ontvangen. Schwarz, voormalig promovendus van het Mathematisch Instituut, ontving de vermelding voor haar proefschrift ‘Logarithmic approach to the double ramification cycle’.

De Digital Legal Talks (DLT)-conferentie maakt deel uit van het Nederlandse Sectorplan Rechtsgeleerdheid, dat een belangrijk onderdeel is van het bredere Sectorplan Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). Dit initiatief is een gezamenlijke inspanning van Tilburg University, de Universiteit van Amsterdam,…

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