466 search results for “beadle” in the Staff website
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Beadles meet up on Beadle Day: ‘Move with the times without losing sight of tradition’
It’ll be a sight to behold: 54 begowned beadles striding through the streets of Leiden. The beadles from 14 universities will gather in Leiden on 25 and 26 August for the 30th National Beadle Day.
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Leiden Classics: the man behind the beadle
Almost everywhere in the world where the post exists, the beadle is a ‘master of ceremonies’ who only makes his appearance on special occasions. In Leiden the beadle does much more. He is indispensable at dissertation defences and orations. He directs ceremonies and is a master at calming nerves.
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Tineke Schutte, our first female beadle, makes her debut
Tineke Schutte made her debut as beadle at Maartje Schoorl's inaugural lecture on 29 April. A unique moment because she's the first female beadle in the history of our university.
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A quick call with... the beadle about inaugural lectures in Lokhorstkerk
Inaugural lectures and PhD ceremonies are usually held in the Grand Auditorium in the Academy Building. Due to its temporary closure for the installation of a new audiovisual system, Lokhorstkerk is serving as an alternative venue. Beadle Erick van Zuijlen tells us more.
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Finalisation and PhD defence ceremony
When the PhD research has been completed and the dissertation is (nearly) finished, there are several more steps to take before you can defend it. For example, you must submit your manuscript and make preparations for the PhD defence ceremony.
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Finalisation and PhD defence ceremony
When the PhD research has been completed and the dissertation is (nearly) finished, there are several more steps to take before you can defend it. For example, you must submit your manuscript and make preparations for the PhD defence ceremony.
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From Inference to Influence: Applying Causal Game Theory to Complex Security Environments
PhD defence
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Measuring wellbeing in climate and socioeconomic scenarios
PhD defence
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Healthcare Reform in the Post-Soeharto Era and Its Effect on the Performance of (local) Health Institutions in West-Kalimantan, Indonesia
PhD defence
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Defence ceremony
When you have finished your dissertation, it is time to prepare for the defence procedure.
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The desperation threshold: a model to explain decisions in poverty
PhD defence
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De rechtsdwaling
PhD defence
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Tracing life through light: Towards detecting life on exoplanets with spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry
PhD defence
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Post-quantum Security of Cryptographic Transformations in the Random Oracle Model
PhD defence
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Deep Generative Models for Engineering Design
PhD defence
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From labelled to the optimal clinical dose: Model-informed dose optimization in medical oncology practice
PhD defence
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Stochastic Amplitude Modulation of Nonlinear Dispersive Waves
PhD defence
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Computational tools and protocols for the development of photoactivated metallodrugs
PhD defence
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Modeling and Targeting Tissue Dynamics in Fibrosis and Cancer
PhD defence
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Anchoring & Affordances: The Modern Afterlives of Francis Bacon’s Theory of the Idols
PhD defence
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Tuning the Tuner: The Art of Automatic Performance Optimization
PhD defence
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Making Sense of Risk Together
PhD defence
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Living with flint
PhD defence
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The Ottoman State and the Ezidis: A Comparative Approach
PhD defence
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How to Self-Organise?
PhD defence
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Interplay of landscape and climate on Culex pipiens mosquitoes in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Synthesis of ADP-ribose Analogues
PhD defence
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Policing the Periphery: Party-anchored hybrid policing in Luanda, Angola
PhD defence
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Hidden star formation in the early Universe
PhD defence
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Communications department
Here you will find an overview of all communication departments within the university.
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Consumer heterogeneity in internal reference price formation
PhD defence
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A Historical Grammar of Phrygian
PhD defence
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Thus We Have Heard: Imperial Buddhist Prefaces and Ideology in Tang China
PhD defence
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Studying for a PhD
Leiden University guides PhD candidates step by step from the start to the defence. You will find more information here about admission, the PhD track, and completion, as well as answers to questions such as: what conditions must I meet? What requirements must my dissertation meet? And what is involved…
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Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss in Company Law and International Investment Law
PhD defence
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Agents of Change?
PhD defence
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Tools for real-time study of bioorthogonal conversions in the living system
PhD defence
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Dissertation layout requirements
The layout of a dissertation must meet certain requirements. Special rules also apply if the dissertation was written with others or if a commercial edition will be published.
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The opportunities for urban food self-sufficiency through green roofs: Modeling, Optimization, and Policy Scenario Analysis
PhD defence
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.
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Work in the time of the coronavirus: ‘I miss the processions'
How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we asked Erick van Zuylen, the University beadle. 'This year, I haven't been leading the PhD committee into and out of the chamber, wielding my beadle's…
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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Dies Natalis Festival for Alumni: a birthday party for 700 guests
Workshops, tours, talks, music, an AI photobooth, interviews, a special poem and the launch of the LUF Children’s Fund. Alumni celebrated their alma mater’s 450th birthday in style on Saturday at the massively oversubscribed Dies Natalis Festival.
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A real professor in the classroom
It’s starting to become a real Dies Natalis tradition: on 8 February professors from Leiden University teach a class at primary schools in the region. This introduces children to academia and teaches them more about conducting research. ‘Had you expected me to be a woman?’
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition
After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was buried according to tradition under the ginkgo tree in the library at the Kamerlingh Onnes building.
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Joint doctorate degree: PhD research at two universities
In some cases, PhD candidates are permitted to follow a PhD track that involves conducting research and receiving supervision at two institutions: Leiden University and another university. On this page, you can read what forms of agreement there are.
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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Academy Building auditoriums closed for summer maintenance
Facility, Organisation
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…