1,148 search results for “modern welfare” in the Public website
-
Mixed Methods: Making the Manuscript Miscellany in Early Modern England
PhD defence
-
Dodo Through the Looking-Glass: A Mirror for Modern and Contemporary Culture
Inaugural lecture
-
Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
- Spring School Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Landscape History and Ecology
-
Frontline Professionals in General and Mental Healthcare and Social Welfare
PhD defence
-
and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Conference
-
Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271121
-
Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
l.alvarez.frances@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
-
Patrick DassenFaculty of Humanities
p.dassen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
-
Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
-
Kenniscafé vaderbetrokkenheid
Op 8 oktober organiseerde het Leiden Healthy Society Center een inspirirend kenniscafé over de rol van vaders in de opvoeding van hun kinderen.
-
'Fortress Europe' at the Humanities Lab Cafe
Thursday 1 October, Humanities Lab hosted the second edition of the Humanities Lab Cafe; this edition’s theme was migration. Professors Leo Lucassen and Piet Emmer were invited to offer the audience their points of view, after which there would be time for a discussion with all those present. At half…
-
Elif Naz Kayran and Anna-Lena Nadler have received the EPSR Early Careers Prize
Elif Naz Kayran and Anna-Lena Nadler have received the European Political Science Review (EPSR) Prize for early career scholars.
-
ILS PhD workshop data visualisation
On Friday 24th March, Prof. Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) ); who was here for the lecture ‘Exploring the economic life of law with sociological imagination, visual methods and experimental attitude’, Leiden Socio-Legal Lecture Series, as a part of ILS 2.0, gave a short workshop on data visualisation…
-
Was the EU’s ban on electric fishing the right decision?
Last week, on 13 February 2019, the EU approved the ban on pulse trawling. This followed the vote for a ban by the European Parliament on 16 January 2018. Half of the 84 Dutch pulse trawling vessels must stop immediately; the other half will receive a transitional arrangement until July 2021. Outcomes…
-
Looking back at ‘Interaction between Legal Systems 2.0: Reflections at the halfway point’
On Thursday 21 February 2019, the successful event ‘Interaction between Legal Systems 2.0: Reflections at the halfway point’ took place. The day’s events brought together the ILS 2.0 research profile areas of ‘SOLID: Solidarity Under Strain’ and ‘Policing the high seas: maritime law enforcement’.
-
Leiden spin-off In Ovo awarded 2.5 million grant
Leiden biotech company In Ovo, a spin-off of Leiden University, has received a European Innovation Council Accelerator Pilot Grant. In Ovo will use this 2.5-million-euro grant in its mission to stop the culling of male chicks.
-
EBM-student Danique Reidsma presents research at symposium NGSZ
Danique Reidsma, student Economics, Policy and Management (EBM) at Leiden University, recently gave a presentation at a symposium of the Dutch Association of Social Security (NGSZ) in The Hague. She presented her own research around the question of whether eHealth can help to keep health care expenditure…
-
and Sexual Violence: Reflections on Methodologies for Trauma in Early Modern France
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
-
Captive Entanglements: Slavery, Medicine, and Natural Inquiry in Early Modern Italy
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
-
Official opening of the Acts of Kindness pillar in the Lipsius building
It has already been a huge success in The Hague, and now the Lipsius building has one, too: an Acts of Kindness pillar. The official opening took place on Tuesday 20 September.
-
Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275635
-
Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
s.a.schrader@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271685
-
Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272921
-
The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities
Conference
-
Introducing Didi van Trijp
Didi van Trijp started her PhD project at LUCAS in October 2015. Her PhD project is part of A New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880, a project directed by prof. dr. Paul Smith.
-
Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
-
Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
Conference
-
Question in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between Islamic Tradition and Global Modernity
PhD defence
-
1 March: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round)
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 1 March 2018, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden University.
-
15 December: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round)
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 December 2017, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden University.
-
15 September: Deadline AMT2 Research Funding (final round)
The deadline for the final round of AMT2 Research Funding is 15 September 2018, 17 hrs CET. Application is open to all academic staff of Leiden University. IMPORTANT: THE AMT RESEARCH FUNDING SERVES FOR PROJECTS THAT PREFERABLY ARE IMPLEMENTED IN 2018 AND OTHERWISE MUST BE COMPLETELY ORGANISED IN…
- Symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
-
Was There Indeed a Decline of Ambiguity in Islamic Modernity? Deathbed Emotions as a Case Study
Lecture | LUCIS What's New?!
-
Flexibilisation, globalisation and technological change: consequences for labour markets and social security.
This research project is funded by a subsidy from Instituut Gak.
-
Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot'
When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.
-
Paul van Trigt and Anna Derksen receive grants
Paul van Trigt and Anna Derksen, both researchers in the project 'Rethinking Disability', received grants for research abroad.
-
Lecture series: Humanity in the Automated State
The lecture series 'Humanity in the Automated State' examines how AI and automated systems are transforming government and public administration and what it means to be human within these digitised institutions.
-
‘How expensive is migration?’
Migrants are expensive. Or are they? Professor Olaf van Vliet collaborated on a big research project from Leiden University to map the costs of migration. During the last episode of this season of the podcast Open Geesten (Open Minds), he talks about the initial results. Do migrants really put a lot…
-
No hunger, and not too much global warming? Current UN plan misses opportunities
The United Nations fall short in their recently published guide to address hunger without surpassing the 1.5-degree climate threshold. This initial version is a significant step, according to a group of researchers including those of Leiden University. However, they miss an essential topic: reducing…
-
Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
-
Programme
See below for the full programme and abstracts of all papers.
-
University of Chicago Press Journals Continue to Earn Top Impact Factor Rankings
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) and the Washington & Lee University School of Law 2014 Journal Rankings, 22 journals published by the University of Chicago Press rank at the top of their subject categories.
-
Minder agressie in gevangenis door soepeler regime
Agressief gedrag van gedetineerden is sterk te verlagen met een aantal aanpassingen in het dagelijkse regime in penitentiaire inrichtingen. Dit blijkt uit de evaluatie van een experiment met een alternatief detentieregime, uitgevoerd door Tilburg University en de Universiteit Leiden.
-
SASE Conference: The multifaceted relationship between value and the firm
On Monday 20 July 2020, members of the Business & Liability Research Network (BLRN), Tim Verdoes (Business Studies), Jelle Nijland and Gert-Jan Boon (both Corporate Law) contributed to the online conference Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (Sase). This years' conference was themed 'Development…
-
Very Well Visited Start of the ILS Lunch Seminar Series 2019-2020
On Thursday 19 September, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Clare Fenwick and Ilya Kokorin gave two very insightful presentations in this very well visited edition of the Lunch Seminars.
-
Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Campus The Hague of Leiden University to discuss future developments in special operations and the escalating competition between great powers.
-
Simon van der StratenFaculty of Archaeology
s.van.der.straten@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
-
Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
h.a.riach@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
-
Clodagh MurphyFaculty of Humanities
c.murphy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727