On May 30th, Yang Yang succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yang on this great result.

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,…

The 9th Network Europe Conference in Edinburgh was held at June 2017 in Edinburgh and organized by the Europa Institut Zurich. The contributions of the conference are now published.

Status placement process

Status placement process

To what end and how does Plautus constantly underline the Helleni(sti)c provenance of his art? How does this aspect relate the author’s originality?

How interdisciplinary teaching supports the development of students’ competencies

How can educators in non-STEM fields integrate Climate Change Education to enhance students’ knowledge, skills, and resilience?

Status placement process

Status placement process

Status placement process

Unraveling culturally responsive attitudes, noticing skills, knowledge and reasoned practices of expert teachers.

Study information, Workshop

Soil biodiversity is of great importance for the maintenance of multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems.

The dissertation by Max Kusters (PhD at ICLON) examined ‘teacher agency’: the capacity of university lecturers to actively and purposefully influence their teaching practices and work conditions.

On November 1st, Min Liu succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Min on this great result.

How do humans control their thoughts and actions, and what can high-field brain scanning reveal about the underlying processes?

Handbook of Signal Processing Systems is organized in four parts. The first part motivates representative applications that drive and apply state-of-the art methods for design and implementation of signal processing systems; the second part discusses architectures for implementing these applications;…

What mechanisms shape faculty members' perspectives on their teaching role in research intensive universities?

Do general practitioners recognize children with or at risk of problematic anxiety and is there a pattern that might help differentiate those with and without anxiety disorders in general practice?

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Many lecturers aim to make their courses more diverse, but they often encounter problems in the process. How can they receive the information they need? This project ‘Wanted: roadmap’ develops a roadmap for Dutch (academic) historians to bring diversity into practice. BA1 teaching in Graeco-Roman history…

How do European Muslim men and women become involved in a violent jihadist struggle abroad?

What development pathways support teaching faculty members in research-intensive universities in becoming informal educational leaders?

On April 4th, Zohreh Shiamizadeh succesfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Zohreh on this great result.

This Thesis describes the design, synthesis and evaluation as glycoprocessing enzyme inhibitors of focused libraries of iminosugars.

The primary goal of this research is to deepen our understanding of substrate-enzyme interactions in Glycoside hydrolases. For this purpose, Bacillus circulans xylanase (BcX) has been selected as a well-established model to examine the Michaelis complex and glycosyl-enzyme adduct.

PhD defence

The Minor in Teaching was introduced in 2009 as a new initiative to introduce and prepare bachelor students for teaching. Student numbers are low, however, especially of mathematics and science students.

On Wednesday 23 October 2024 Judith Jurjens successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

An overview of the educational profile of the Leiden Institute for Philosophy, including its global teaching focus, curriculum themes, and supervision model.

Beginning teachers often experience difficulties making activating lessons. This study investigates how and if the practical teaching model can offer them a hand in learning to design lessons.

What are the impacts of digital educational resources on rural teachers and their teaching in China?

In the traditional theory of linear elasticity, superposition dictates that the response of a material does not depend on the sequence of the applied mechanical actuations.