Binnen het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’ richt het onderzoekscluster ‘Politics in the Netherlands’ zich op de Nederlandse politiek. De onderzoekers bestuderen de opzet en het functioneren van de politieke instituties en kijken naar de attitudes en het gedrag…

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…

A linguistic prehistory of the Tarim Basin in Northwest China

Promotor: Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

On 10-12 October 2024, a workshop is held at the University of Groningen, titled: "25 years after Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives". The organisers aim to gather specialists and early career researchers in the field of crusader studies to discuss emerging research…

Artful Mathematics: The Heritage of M. C. Escher

The ultimate goal of cosmologists is to find a cosmological model able to explain the current observational data.

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Kunst- en cultuurhistorische aspecten van een iconische rondreis

Kunst- en cultuurhistorische aspecten van een iconische rondreis

Het boek 'Fit for the future' bundelt de bijdragen van Leidse wetenschappers en behandelt de uitdagende onderwerpen op de agenda van het Nederlandse EU-voorzitterschap 2016.

Een échte professor in de klas!

Dankzij haar vestiging op de Campus Den Haag van de Universiteit Leiden, bevindt GTGC zich in een zeer mondiale omgeving. Het programma onderhoudt dan ook actief contact met organisaties en instanties in de stad die een belangrijke rol spelen in de aanpak van mondiale vraagstukken. Hieronder vind je…

Onder redactie van Ton Liefaard, Stephanie Rap and Peter Rodrigues is het boek ‘Monitoring Children’s Rights in the Netherlands. 30 Years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’ (Leiden University Press) verschenen.

Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) with life cycle costing (LCC) offers the opportunity to simultaneously analyze the environmental and economic aspects of product alternatives, for the integration of which a unified computational has been proposed by Heijungs et al. (2013) [1]. The project aims…

De Afdeling Jeugdrecht en Defence for Children nodigen u van harte uit voor de uitreiking van de vierde Jaap Doek Kinderrechtenscriptieprijs en de officiële presentatie van het boek ‘The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Taking Stock after 25 Years and Looking Ahead’.

How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?

This course uses the lives, ideals and achievements of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt to create the idea of a Rooseveltian century. It is an invitation to think critically and historically, and it wants to give you a glimpse of what it means to be a historian at work.

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Schaye, Co-promotor: Marcello Cacciato

Welke rol spelen ouder-kind interacties bij het ontstaan, in stand houden en de behandeling van depressieve klachten van jongeren?

Op dinsdag 11 februari 2020 verdedigde Clara van Dam haar proefschrift ‘Guidance documents of the European Commission in the Dutch legal order’.

Op 11 mei 2016 ontving het Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law Robert Pickel voor de elfde Hazelhoff Guest Lecture, getiteld ‘The Deadliest Sin of the Financial Crisis’.

Naar zelfregulerend leren bij spreek- en gespreksvaardigheid in moderne vreemde talen in het voortgezet onderwijs: een adaptieve en praktische aanpak.

The elicitation of mentor teachers' practical knowledge by prospective teachers

On dinsdag 26 september heeft Jessica Hill haar proefschrift ‘On the road to adulthood. Delinquency and desistance in Dutch emerging adults’ verdedigd. Promotor is Professor Arjan Blokland.

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Has the industrial sector in China effectively been decarbonizing in recent years, across different regions and subsectors, and is it plausible that it will reduce its CO2 emissions in conformity with national and internationally pledged emission goals?

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) biedt een 3-jarige bacheloropleiding aan waarin je je focust op Global Challenges; grote uitdagingen waar de mensheid mee te maken heeft: Vrede & Rechtvaardigheid, Diversiteit, Duurzaamheid en Welvaart. Je hebt ruimte om de opleiding zo in te richten als je…

Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) biedt een 3-jarige bacheloropleiding aan waarin je je focust op Global Challenges; grote uitdagingen waar de mensheid mee te maken heeft: Vrede & Rechtvaardigheid, Diversiteit, Duurzaamheid en Welvaart. Je hebt ruimte om de opleiding zo in te richten als je…

In November publiceerde Springer een boek getiteld The Future of Drone Use, onder redactie van mr. dr. ir. Bart Custers, hoofd onderzoek bij eLaw, het Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie van de Universiteit Leiden.

Wetlands provide many ecosystem goods and services which include fish production. The sustainability of small-scale fisheries (SSF) has received considerable attention in recent years because fish is one of the major sources of animal protein to a considerable fraction of the global population which…

An Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) is a highly luminous region at the center of a galaxy, powered by the accretion into a supermassive black hole and emitting energy from radio waves to gamma rays, often outshining the host galaxy.

What is the current relevance of the ethics of counterterrorism and what is the added value of ethics support within the practice of counterterrorism?

Promotor: Jelle S. Kaastra Co-promotor: Jelle de Plaa

Protein–protein complexes are formed via transient states called encounter complexes that greatly influence the formation of the stereospecific complex.

Promotor: J. A. Bouwstra

Promotor: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink, Co-promotor: Dr. M. van der Zee

Every organisms in the tree of life faces the same challenge: the length of its DNA exceeds the volume of the cell it needs to fit in. Several strategies have evolved to solve this problem, one of them being the expression of proteins that bind and organize the DNA.

Promotor: Prof. dr. Arnold Tukker & Prof. dr. René Kemp (Maastricht University)

Promotores: Prof.dr. A.G.G.M. Tielens, Prof.dr. L. Kaper (UvA)

The aim of this project was to estimate emissions from lead products-in-use for the past, the present and the future and assess the development of toxicological risks associated with these products.

In this thesis, we present new laboratory data of interstellar dust analogues.

Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.

Promotores: Prof.dr. S.J. Edixhoven, Prof.dr. E. Ullmo (University Paris-Sud)

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Ubbink

There is no heritage without emotional sharing and clashing. This article explores the involvement of divergent emotions in heritage making by discussing the debate series of Imagine IC and the Reinwardt Academy and zooming in on the commemoration of slavery and imagery of ‘Black Pete’ in the Netherlands.…

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

One of the key discoveries in exoplanet research over the past decade is the abundance of small planets in our Milky Way. Despite their high numbers, our understanding of their atmospheres remains limited, and it is unknown if they possess atmospheres at all.