421 search results for “cognitive” in the Staff website
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World Teachers Festival: a celebration of globally-minded educators
On 21 March 2024, the ‘learners’ at Wolfert Bilingual in Rotterdam were not teenagers, but some 180 teachers and teacher educators from around the Netherlands and beyond. Those delegates were bound by a common interest in exploring and engaging with teaching and learning in linguistically and culturally…
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Smart monitoring of test subjects is the future of clinical research
Knowing whether or not a treatment is working just by wearing your watch? Data scientist Ahnjili ZhuParris has identified a lot of opportunities for the use of machine learning in clinical research to monitor test subjects at home.
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At the forefront of AI innovation: in conversation with Julian van der Kraats
AI-related activities and programmes are springing up throughout the university. In research, for example, at SAILS, and for staff in workshops and co-creation labs. As an AI champion at the ISSC, Julian van der Kraats is involved in various AI developments.
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Six reasons why it’s hard to lead a healthier life
We know we should do it, and we often want to, but… Why is it so hard to live a healthier life? Professor of Behavioural Interventions in Population Health Marieke Adriaanse explains.
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Rhythms of resilience: Individual differences in genetic and environmental effects on brain development
PhD defence
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Lorentz Lecture: Working towards evidence-based care for aging transgender and non-binary people
Lecture
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Active Inference
Conference
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OSCoffee: The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars
Lecture
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Finding our way out of the hyper-nervous society? ‘Time to pause and reflect on our basic human needs’
Hit the brakes! That’s the advice of the Council for Public Health and Society in a recent report. Eight psychologists share their insights on how to slow down and reconnect.
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Psychology Connected: Artificial Intelligence
Conference
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Psychology Connected: Academic Entrepreneurship
Conference
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Psychology Lab on Wheels with serious game for recognising emotions
Festival, Citizen Science
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The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Military Purposes
Lecture
- LUCAS "Role of Experience" reading group: Conceptual Metaphor Theory
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Co-Align Conference 2023
Conference
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Psychology Science Day
Science day
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LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” Research Presentations
Exhibition
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Casimir Colloquium: Modular interventions in childhood
Lecture
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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SSH labs: a place to be inspired by your colleagues
The new SSH labs will offer great opportunities for FSW and FGW staff engaged in experimental research. The labs will be a place of inspiration, not only because of the state-of-the-art equipment, but also as a result of the increased interaction with colleagues in other disciplines.
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’
How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff tried to answer at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being.
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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How e-coaching helps people with chronic kidney disease to live more healthily
An e-coaching programme helps people with chronic kidney disease, particularly in areas that patients themselves want to work on. ‘A healthy lifestyle is important for patients with kidney disease: it can slow down the loss of kidney function and there will be fewer complications,’ Katja Cardol explains…
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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone
Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and discovered that men, in particular, tend to overestimate the interest of their date. She explains why this may be.
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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’
Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by no means the case for everyone with chronic pain, as PhD candidate Gita Nadinda discovered. What does this mean for healthcare?
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Shipwrecks and Cultural Diplomacy
Lecture
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Blended Learning: Using digital tools for teaching
Didactics
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Indistinguishable Likeness
PhD defence
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
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Sophie van RijnSocial & Behavioural Sciences
srijn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Best practices
On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.
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Breaking Barriers, Personalizing Pathways - Psychological health and self-management of people with chronic kidney disease
PhD defence
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CANCELLED: LCN2 Seminar: Algorithms for Network Visualization and beyond
Lecture
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Connect & Learn: How a large, complex, sensitive dataset is managed for long-term access and use
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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Investigating structure and function of the dopaminergic midbrain - with a special focus on the human VTA
PhD defence
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Psychology Connected: Work, Pressure or Pleasure?
Conference
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Paul Natorp’s Reformulation of the Kantian Distinction between Intuition and Concept
PhD defence
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Psychology Connected: Gender Differences
Conference
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Food for Thought: Unhealthy Finance -Shifting Responsibilities in Society”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence