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Crime and Migration in an Age of Transformation
The nineteenth century truly was an age of transformation. Throughout Europe processes of industrialization and urbanization, nationalization and centralization, changed the structures of society. It was an age in which the number of people living in urban communities grew substantially.
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Negotiating Fiscal Norms, Property and Labour in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka
This project focuses on Dutch registration of land and people in rural Sri Lanka. How did the practice of “fixating” the fluid social relations and dynamic daily practices into categories affect family strategies of reproduction and survival?
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Peter Berrill
Science
p.berrill@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Michiel Hooykaas
Science
m.j.d.hooykaas@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Matt Young
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.m.young@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
n.l.jaspers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Catrin Böcher
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c.bocher@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Admission and application
If you want to apply for the Urban Studies bachelor’s programme at Leiden University, find out how to do so by following the step-by-step guide below.
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Rethinking Ostia
A Spatial Enquiry into the Urban Society of Rome’s Imperial Port-Town
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About the programme
During the Europe 1000-1800 programme you will learn from inspired academics. Find out more about the programme below.
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Deconstructing stability. Modelling changing environmental conditions and man-land relations in the Pleistocene landscape of Twente (2850 - 12
The project Deconstructing Stability aims to improve reconstructions of late prehistoric landscapes and predictive models for the purpose of archaeological heritage management.
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Steps in gas-surface reactions
Heterogeneous catalysis is essential to many industrial applications. These catalysts are often comprised of supported nanoparticles, which contain various different surface sites.
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Ashley Wilkinson
Faculty of Humanities
a.a.wilkinson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Geert-Jan Kroes
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g.j.kroes@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4396
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Richard van Lent
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r.van.lent@lic.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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After graduation
Once you have obtained your bachelor’s degree, you are ready for a next step: continuing your studies or entering the labour market. Completing the Urban Studies programme will give you an excellent preparation for both options.
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
The goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people’s interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.
- Green roofs and Buildings
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Shaping Massive Galaxies: the structural evolution of galaxies across
Galaxies in the local Universe fall into two main categories of spirals and ellipticals. In this Thesis, we explore the structural evolution of galaxies into this bimodal distribution.
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Functionalized two-dimensional membranes and materials for solar-to-fuel devices: a multiscale computational approach
In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.
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Scattering and absorption in 2D optics
Scattering of light in the presence of nano-structured materials, i.e. with features in the order of the wavelength of the light or smaller, reveals details of how light interacts with matter at the nanoscale.
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The connection between mass and light in galaxy clusters
Promotor: Koen Kuijken Co-promotor: Henk Hoekstra
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Infrared spectroscopy of astrophysically relevant hydrocarbons
This thesis is about the study of hydrocarbons via infrared spectroscopy.
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Principal algebraic actions of the discrete Heisenberg group
Promotor: Prof.dr. W.T.F. den Hollander, Prof. dr. E.A. Verbitskiy
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Study programme
The Urban Studies bachelor’s programme is based on two learning trajectories. One is dedicated to knowledge related to urban issues, while the other focuses on a wide range of practical and academic skills.
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Theorizing Technologically Mediated Policing in Smart Cities: An Ethnographic Approach to Sensing Infrastructures in Security Practices
Smart digital infrastructures predicated on myriads of sensors distributed in the environment are often rendered as key to contemporary urban security governance to detect risky or suspicious entities before or during a criminal event takes place. At the same time, they often involve surveillance of…
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Matching, entropy, holes and expansions
In this dissertation, matching, entropy, holes and expansions come together. The first chapter is an introduction to ergodic theory and dynamical systems.
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Events
Below we present our past and future events of the Multigreen project
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Smart Industrial Parks in China: towards Joint Design and Institutionalization
How to contribute to a quantum leap of eco-industrial symbiosis in China?
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The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city's social,…
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Simulating the birth environment of circumstellar discs
Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.
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Nanoparticulate Impurities in Pharmaceutical-Grade Sugars and their Interference with Light Scattering-Based Analysis of Protein Formulations
PURPOSE: In the present study we investigated the root-cause of an interference signal (100-200 nm) of sugar-containing solutions in dynamic light scattering (DLS) and nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA) and its consequences for the analysis of particles in biopharmaceutical drug products.
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Piecewise deterministic Markov processes: an analytic approach
Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans
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Do you have a question about student life in Leiden or The Hague, studying at Leiden University, or do you want more information about the Urban Studies programme? You can get in contact with a student directly!
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Introducing: Paul Kloeg
Paul Kloeg is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire', directed by Luuk De Ligt and John Bintliff (Archaeology).
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