409 search results for “zorg en doing” in the Public website
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Want to do scientific research at Lowlands?
The Lowlands pop festival is inviting scientists to make proposals for research at this year's festival (19 to 21 August).
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Common breeding birds are doing better in the Netherlands than in Europe
On average, Dutch breeding birds have become more numerous in the period 1980-2010. The common species have even done better than birds in other European countries. Farmland birds are an exception: they declined sharply both in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe.
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep?
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforced digitalisation has brought us valuable innovations and smart tools. The question is: what’s going well and what could we do differently? I’d love to…
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Erik de KwaadstenietFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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By educating and doing research together, you can discover things that really matter.
Bringing young, enthusiastic and driven academics from different disciplines together, that’s the goal of the Young Academy Leiden (YAL). As a new member, Assistant professor Jan van Rijn is excited to look at AI from different perspective. ‘I want to bring my expertise together with different point…
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A real professor in the classroom: ‘What do you like best about your work?’
Each year on the university’s birthday, children at primary schools in Leiden and The Hague have a lesson from a professor – about children’s rights and robots in surgery, for example. The children get to do activities. And ask questions: ‘How do you become a professor?’
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die asielzoekers evenwichtig over gemeenten in Nederland moet verdelen en per 1 juli 2025 gereed moet zijn, staat onder druk. Mark Klaassen, universitair
De spreidingswet die asielzoekers evenwichtig over gemeenten in Nederland moet verdelen en per 1 juli 2025 gereed moet zijn, staat onder druk. Mark Klaassen, universitair docent migratierecht, spreekt in EenVandaag over de zaak.
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to Leiden, I’ve never worried that something might be too difficult to do’
The Italian physicist Andrea Morello is one of the pioneers of the quantum revolution. He is currently doing research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, but cherishes his time as a PhD candidate in Leiden.
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Bureaucracy and fragmented social care system mean people do not receive the help they need
In his PhD research in the field of public administration, Mark Reijnders looked at why people do not receive the help they need. They lose their way in the labyrinthine support system or become bogged down in bureaucracy. In public administration this is known as non-take-up of social care. PhD defence…
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Why do vulnerable groups miss out on benefits? Research nominated for thesis prize
Why do vulnerable groups fail to make use of benefits that they are entitled to? This is what Max ten Velde researched in his Master’s in Management of the Public Sector thesis, which has been nominated for the Netherlands Court of Audit’s thesis prize.
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Joris van de RietFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marieke AdriaanseFaculty of Medicine
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Gianclaudio MalgieriFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Emma EveraertFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Valerie FrissenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jet BussemakerFaculty of Medicine
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Andreas KinnegingFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Henrik BarmentloFaculty of Science
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Bart LabuschagneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Gera van DuijvenvoordeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerrit-Jan ZwenneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Roosje PeetersFaculty of Humanities
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Timo SlootwegFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arco TimmermansFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne StiggelboutFaculty of Medicine
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Sarah GiestFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Thijs VosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bibi van den BergFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Bart SchermerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mariska KretFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah de Lange
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Why do a Master Honours Challenge? ‘Step away from your own square millimetre’
Learning how to work with people from different disciplines, that’s what Master Honours Challenges are all about. In teams, students address a challenge for an organisation or society as a whole. Two participants tell us what made their course stand out. ‘It was at times uncomfortable, but exhilarat…
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Talk and debate: how do we prevent science from harming the environment?
Sustainability researchers can play an important role in the energy transition. But what if their partners are not (yet) sustainable and science itself has adverse effects? This is the subject of an online talk by researcher Thomas Franssen on 16 December with a discussion afterwards. ‘Clean energy…
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How do you get ex-prisoners back on the job market?
Despite various initiatives it appears that it is no simple task to get ex-prisoners back on the job market.
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Do civil servants in The Hague feel free to make recommendations to the House?
Recently, Prime Minister Dirk Schoof caused quite the stir in the political arena of The Hague following the release of policy documents on the asylum debate. This came ahead of a decision that had not yet been made. The question has since arisen as to whether it’s still possible for civil servants…
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Sultan Hamid II van Pontianak en de federale staatsvorming van Indonesië
PhD defence
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Zelensky addresses students: 'Live your own life, but do so together with others'
A standing ovation. A wave and a smile from the president. A final selfie. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed students in the Netherlands for the first time on Tuesday morning via a livestream in The Hague. He did so in front of two packed lecture halls at both Leiden University and The…
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Naomi Ellemers: ‘Now I have the opportunity to do something truly innovative.'
Naomi Ellemers, Professor of Social Psychology of Organisations, is one of the four winners of the Spinoza Prize for 2010. ‘This is absolutely fantastic – something that as a researcher you hardly dare to dream of!’
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How do you manage a university that has no clear owner?
Universities are there for future generations; how can we make sure we pass them on intact? Leiden academics responded to the address given by Cambridge professor Stefan Collini at the opening of the academic year.
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Do we need a right to a human explanation? Melanie Fink at Leiden University’s SAILS Lunch Time-seminars
On 10 February 2025, Melanie Fink presented her recently awarded NWO Veni project at Leiden University’s SAILS Lunch Time-seminars.
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How do plants protect themselves against too much sunlight?
That a switching protein plays a role in protecting a plant from too much sunlight was already known, but how exactly was not yet understood. The research group of Anjali Pandit has now discovered that this protein changes shape when there is too much sunlight. The results have been published in Nature…
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What do you learn when attending an Open Day?
The Open Day of Leiden University, on Saturday, October 19, 2019 was busy, in a pleasant way. More than 12,500 prospective students and supervisors visited the information market in the Pieterskerk. There, and at other locations, they were informed about the studies they preferred during countless presentations…
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In war crimes, commanders do not have legal immunity
In her capacity as a lawyer and expert in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Professor Helen Duffy is filing a lawsuit against the Dutch State. Leiden University’s weekly newspaper Mare reports that through her role, Duffy is assisting a Palestinian Dutchman whose family was killed in…
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Do municipal councils meet behind closed doors too often?
‘Dutch municipalities’ backroom meetings a massive breach of the law’ was the main headline of Dutch newspaper De Stentor on 24 June 2022. According to investigative journalist Gep Leeflang, Dutch municipalities continuously break the law by holding their municipal council meetings behind closed doors.…