330 search results for “modern welfare” in the Student website
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Leiden scientist addresses UN: 'People should not work for the economic system, the economic system should work for the people'
Environmental scientist Rutger Hoekstra addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on 12 April. And that’s quite a big thing to do. How do you get there as a scientist? And, more importantly, what was his message? In eight questions, Rutger explains what he does and why.
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Fieldwork in Leiden
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, students have been conducting all sorts of research, in Leiden. They presented their initial findings and recommendations at a Learning with the City meeting…
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Starting the new year together: these are the winners of faculty awards
A beautiful speech by vice-dean Bart de Smit, a mini-lecture on exoplanets and the presentation of three faculty awards. That's how we started the new year at the faculty. Together with colleagues and students, we raised our glasses to a new year full of great collaborations, science and education.
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Project in The Hague tackles teacher shortage and inequality at the same time
A The Hague-based project is aiming to tackle teacher shortage and socioeconomic inequality reflected in primary education – and the objective is to do so while helping schools face the challenges imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic in the Netherlands. Higher education students are joining hands with primary…
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New technology could prevent the mass cull of male chicks
A staggering 6.5 billion chicks are killed worldwide every year. These are generally male chicks that are of no economic value. In Ovo has developed technology that can quickly determine the sex of a chick, to ensure that only female chicks are hatched. The first 150,000 chicks have now hatched in this…
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Annachiara RaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Pepita HesselberthFaculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin MacajFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Bart BarendregtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana FrançozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greatest attribute. The principle of equality and the right not to be discriminated against are in the very first article of our constitution. Yet there is a…
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Race against time: Helping the Netherlands secure almost 20 million Pfizer vaccines
The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…
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Roos van OostenFaculty of Archaeology
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Stephen HarrisFaculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Miguel John VersluysFaculty of Archaeology
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Mark DriessenFaculty of Archaeology
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities