An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity Marks

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How did Dutch refugee policies develop during a period in which consecutive coalition cabinets were responsible for these policies during refugee crises between 1913 en 2017 and what were the considerations that can explain this development?

Deze week sluiten we het academisch jaar af met verschillende FGGA-studenten, waarin zij hun zomer- en toekomstplannen vertellen, maar ook terugblikken op het afgelopen jaar: ‘Ik vond het ontzettend prettig om weer terug te komen naar de fijne sfeer op Wijnhaven.’

Flitsinterview met alumnus Kees van der Staaij: ik ben en blijf een jurist in hart en nieren

Professor of Law and Society, Maartje van der Woude, had an interview in ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’ of 4 September 2018 about her research into mobile border control.

Lack of money impacts how a person takes financial decisions: now or preferably later. Procrastination and avoidance behaviours in turn have an effect on lack of money, which can result in a sense of loss of control. These are the findings of psychologist Leon Hilbert in his PhD research, although the…

'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.

On the 26th of May Sudarmoko successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

Where did species survive the cold cycles of the current Ice Age?

The Europa Instituut is pleased to announce that on 21 November 2016 a new handbook “EU State Aids” (31 Chapters, 1500 pages) was published.

Prisoners who have little or no contact with the outside world are more prone to reoffend. What makes visits so important?

Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800

How are night spaces imagined, produced, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe? This research project considers this question in eight European cities: Aarhus, Amsterdam, Berlin, Cork, Galway, Lisbon, London, Rotterdam. Authorities have historically wrestled with the issue of night-time…

On 13 June, Jorrit Rijpma spoke on migration and border control at sea at the Summer School “Open Sea on Migrations, Sea Border Control and Human Rights” organized by the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Migrants’ Rights in the Mediterranean based at the University of Naples (“Orientale”).

To what extent are there differences between countries in and outside the European Union and the Schengen area in the level of crimmigration, the merger between migration control and crime control, and to what extent can these differences be explained by the way in which state and non-state actors in…

Leraar worden in het voortgezet onderwijs? Bekijk dan deze video.

Gert Renkema, Head of Financial Economic Affairs/Business Controller of FGGA, tells us how the faculty is doing

The department of Financial and Economic Affairs at FGGA is always busy with…..finances. It is an important department that impacts, directly or indirectly, everyone working at FGGA. Yet, for many of us, it is not always clear what it is that Gert and his team actually do. What is the financial status…

How do balanced lethal systems originate and persist in nature?

How does invasive hybridization affect threatened native species?

Does a moving hybrid zone leave a genomic footprint?

Kathryn Emerson defended her thesis on 28 June 2016

We are all aware of the importance of a healthy lifestyle. However, at the same time we also experience many difficulties when we are trying to change our behavior to become more healthy. For example, more often than not our good intentions to exercise more or to eat fewer unhealthy snacks fail miserably…

Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O. van Gaans

A review of Elke Devroe's participation in the European Society of Criminology of 2016 : The first conference of the European Society of Criminology was held in 2000 in Lausanne. Now, 16 years later and lots of new ESC-members later, the 16th Annual conference of the European Society of Criminology…

In its ruling this week, The Hague Court of Appeal made short work of how the Dutch Border Police allow the colour of a person’s skin to be taken into account when selecting people to check. According to Maartje van der Woude, this ruling reaches far beyond the border police. ‘This is a problem for…

The future does not yet exist, but many people think about it daily. The course Designing Your Future, part of the Honours Programme at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs and taught by Bram Hoonhout‘Being a mentor during HOP week is something I can recommend to everyone’

Verschillende bewoners in de kansarme wijk Poelenburg in Zaandam leven in angst en voelen zich geïntimideerd door de ondermijningsaanpak van de gemeente, waarbij misstanden als huisbetredingen zonder toestemming en achtervolgingen niet worden geschuwd. Fatma Çapkurt, universitair docent staats- en bestuursrecht,…

Leiden chemists have developed a new technique with which they can determine the role of kinases – a group of proteins – in a living cell. This technique makes it easier to find new drug targets for diseases such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis. The team published the findings in the journal Nature…

Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city and where there are already trees, it can calculate the optimal solution. Data scientist Mitra Baratchi makes this possible. Her students are now using…

Clear information about support services, a well-being self-test and advice on finding a room. YounginLeiden.nl helps students and other young people get started, literally and figuratively. Why is this site so desperately needed?

Kyra van der Moezel defended her thesis on 7 September 2016.

Alexander West defended his thesis on 20 May 2021

The Leiden Leadership Centre is an interdisciplinary network organisation branching out from its place within the Institute of Public Administration, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (Leiden University in The Hague). The LLC functions as a platform by connecting students, practitioners, and…

What is the provenance of introduced populations?

Our ability to learn and control movements is essential for engaging in goal-directed behaviour. From buttoning your shirt and driving a car, to cooking dinner and brushing your teeth -- our actions in daily life rely on this ability.

The Egyptian hieroglyphic script was exceptionally versatile, as becomes clear when studying its multiple uses both within Ancient Egypt and beyond its borders.

These are our lecturers (in alphabetical order) for the 2025 Summer School in Languages and Linguistics.

This article explores how employees use leadership behaviours and how characteristics of the organizational context affect their engagement in leadership.

In this article, Ben S. Kuipers and Joanne Murphy review recent critiques of leadership theory and practice.

This dissertation is part of a broader research project that revolves around unraveling the evolution of balanced lethal systems.