3,177 search results for “urban studies” in the Public website
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Hossein Pourbagheri
Faculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin Macaj
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Case studies
The research that is united in the Liveable Planet programme, touches upon a wide range of aspects of human life. The goal is to deepen and expand the scope and to connect more researchers. The following case studies are examples of current research projects.
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Young start-up Urban Crops wins Venture Academy
A jar, filled with water, that functions as an aquarium for fishes while plants or flowers grow on top. Urban Crops, a young start-up company, creates small eco-systems in jars by using aquaponic systems. The 'Ecojar' is a modern decoration in living-rooms and office spaces, but also purifies the air…
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Conference - The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Art in Public Urban Environments
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) is hosting an international conference on November 29 and 30 at Gravensteen on the role and position of sounds and sounding arts in public urban environments. This unique conference aims to increase the attention to the role of the sound, sound design,…
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
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Mountain ascetic ideal image for urban dwellers in Korea
In order to be able to handle the pressure of modern life better, Koreans practise GiCheon: intensive exercises for body and spirit. This movement theory is based on the tradition of mountain ascetics, but GiCheon is primarily a modern urban phenomenon. This is the conclusion of PhD candidate Victoria…
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Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914
Bringing together the most current research on the relationship between crime and gender in the West between 1600 and 1914, this authoritative volume places female criminality within its everyday context.
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How can we make better use of natural resources?
Mining for natural resources harms the environment. But we desperately need them, for both the development of countries and the transition to a sustainable energy system. Professor of Sustainable Resource Use Ester van der Voet researches how we can reduce the environmental impact of natural resources…
- Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies
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The Life and Death of the Shopping City: Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945
How have British cities changed in the years since the Second World War? And what drove this transformation? This innovative new history traces the development of the post-war British city, from the 1940s era of reconstruction, through the rise and fall of modernist urban renewal, up to the present-day…
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Arie van der Kooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Hélène Nut
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Kees Colder
Faculty of Humanities
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Mubarika Nugraheni
Faculty of Humanities
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Chunli Song
Faculty of Humanities
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Al Al Farabi
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah Holma
Faculty of Humanities
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Pilar Jimenez Galindo
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tim Wuisman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Edmund Amann
Faculty of Humanities
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Jialong Liu
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelle Bruning
Faculty of Humanities
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
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Petra Sijpesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Maurits Berger
Faculty of Humanities
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The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.
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Respiratory health and disease in the Netherlands
Studying the impact of urbanisation on the respiratory health of past Dutch populations (1200-1850 CE).
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
On 25 January 2024 H.J. Pak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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‘City dwellers in Middle Ages no worse off than village dwellers’
City dwellers in the Middle Ages were probably no worse off than people living in villages. Both groups had very different health risks, is Rachel Schats' conclusion from her research on bone material. PhD defence 3 November.
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Moving Romans. Urbanisation, migration and labour in the Roman Principate
To what extent was labour-induced migration important to the functioning of the towns and cities of Roman Italy?
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Introducing: Margarida Borges
Margarida Borges has been working as a PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History since September 2011.
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
- Researching and studying diversity
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Paula Esteves dos Santos Jordao
Faculty of Humanities
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Christian Henderson
Faculty of Humanities
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Bachelor programmes
Leiden University offers 12 Bachelor programmes taught in English. Tuition for undergraduate programmes range from 10,000 - 12,000 euros / year depending on the chosen study programme.
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Public Resources
On this page you will find resources developed by the project team, such as bibliographies, reading lists, template case-studies as well as the team's training and seminar activities.
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Publications
Below is a chronological list of the most recent to oldest publication from the MultiGreen project.
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Tuition fees
The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors. Your nationality and previous Dutch higher education qualifications determine the amount of tuition fee you have to pay.
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Michael Herzfeld
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Petra de Bruijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Bastian Still
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Lieks Hettinga
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene Hadiprayitno
Faculty of Humanities