3,347 search results for “development ” in the Staff website
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Why you (won’t) vote – A reading list
In November, the Dutch will elect a new parliament. Not all eligible citizens will go out and vote, however. How can this be explained, and how big of a problem is it? International research into voter turnout can shed new light on this issue – and offer possible solutions.
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Growing super legs for the Tour de France with the aid of Leiden data science
Only the fittest cyclists stand a chance of taking yellow in the brutal Tour de France. Team Jumbo-Visma is working with data scientists from Leiden. They have analysed the stages and performance of Jumbo-Visma’s riders in previous Grand Tours. And they are researching how to determine the fitness level…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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New Year’s reception 2021: a memorable online event
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as the host led us through the programme filled with the Casimir Teaching Award, the Pieter de la Court Medals, the Master’s Thesis Prizes, and a short lecture…
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Taskforce promotes the interests of contract and external PhD candidates: ‘We must level out the playing field’
The University wants to improve its support for contract and external PhD candidates. A taskforce headed by Dean of FGGA Erwin Muller has made over fifty recommendations, varying from an improved PhD portal and flexible work places on the campus to the right to vote in employee participation bodies.…
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Leiden University joins national 113 campaign: ‘It’s okay to feel uncomfortable about talking about suicide’
Talking about suicide is important, but anything but comfortable. To make this difficult subject easier for students and staff to discuss, the university is organising a campaign week in line with the national campaign ‘1K Z1E J3’ (I see you) being run by Stichting 113 Zelfmoordpreventie (113 is the…
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
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First scientific images Euclid telescope exceed all expectations
Space telescope Euclid is capable of unravelling the secrets of the universe. That is what the images published by ESA today show, according to astronomers working with the telescope's data. The images exceed all expectations. Scientists within the Euclid consortium, including astronomers Henk Hoekstra…
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2023 Conference on International Cyber Security: War and Peace. Conflict, Behaviour and Diplomacy in Cyberspace
Conference
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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Some Contexts and Practices of S&T Foresight and Impact Assessment in Japan
Seminar
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Liveable planet lunch meeting - Learning from Ancient Water Systems
Lecture
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Imagining the Unimaginable: Finding the Islamic in Muslim Futures
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Kress Talks with Cynthia Kok and Felicity Good
Lecture
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Book Launch | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Lecture, Book Launch
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Dutch Excavations in the Eastern Nile Delta
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Quantitative Empirical Research Methods in Law
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Circulation as Relational History
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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LUCIR/Grotius Centre Book Talk: Ideology and Mass Killing
Lecture
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Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia
Lecture, COGLOSS
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Testing linguistic theories with deep learning: a case study on meaning predictability
Lecture
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Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
Conference
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law / Introductory Course PhD-candidates
Research
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Universiteit Leiden Academy Week
Study information
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PhD Candidates: Get more success with less stress
Personal development, Working effectively
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Histories of Intellectual Property
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Lecture
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Qahramon Yakubov will be Central Asia Erasmus Fellow in April 2023
Lecture
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Towards a Muslim Futurist Movement: On the Power of Imagining, Space Building, and Community
Lecture, LUCIS Meets | Masterclass
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with Ozan Candogan
Lecture
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry (ab)uses the Legal System: The Urgent Call for Binding Regulations to Protect People and Climate
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Practicing informed consent; dilemmas and experiences in social science research
Conference
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LUCIR book talk: Awakening to China’s Rise: Europe amid US-China Strategic Competition
Lecture
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Online Open Day for Professionals
Study information
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Why We All Need Philosophical and Scientific Analysis in the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Intellectual History
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: One Among Zeroes: AI, Islam and what computational analysis can teach us about religious futures
Lecture
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Luchtkwaliteit in Beeld
Experiment
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Meta-Analysis
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What a glow in the dark squid tells us about the human gut microbiome
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Alumni Career Event Methodology and Statistics Psychology
Alumni event
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Workshop The reliable pelvis
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure