1,471 search results for “governance” in the Staff website
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How can we live healthier lives? Universities and hospitals are going to find out
Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of junk food. In a new interdisciplinary Medical Delta programme, researchers are going to investigate how to help people live healthier lives. What are…
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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Jasper's day
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing? What kinds of things is he doing and what does his day look like? In each newsletter Jasper gives a peek into his life as dean.
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Four VIS grants for Humanities projects
The new VIS grant has been awarded to four projects from the Faculty of Humanities. In a Virtual International Cooperation Project (VIS), Dutch and foreign students work together remotely on a project that links local issues to an international perspective.
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Belittling and threats are part of everyday life for outspoken women
In a fiery Annie Romein-Verschoor lecture, Sylvana Simons opened up about her experiences as a woman in politics. The leader of the BIJ1 party is regularly the subject of belittling comments and threats. Writer Aafke Romeijn, who reflected on the Simons’ lecture, has also been threatened frequently…
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Special operations in an era of escalating great power competition: ‘There is no shortage of challenges’
On Tuesday 20 September, David Kilcullen, one of the world’s leading experts on modern warfare, visited Campus The Hague of Leiden University to discuss future developments in special operations and the escalating competition between great powers.
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these consortia. These five consortia will receive grants worth a total of almost 24 million euros. They relate to interdisciplinary projects that will bring…
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Three questions about the Ethics Committee
Whereas ethical research rules were previously mainly associated with the sciences, today they also play an increasingly important role in the Humanities. What are the consequences of this for researchers in the Humanities? And when do you need the Ethics Committee? We discussed this question with Dorota…
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Collaboration across borders: virtual learning between Leiden University College and Myanmar
Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.
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De Stafafdeling Onderzoek: welke collega’s ondersteunen de onderzoekers van de faculteit en wat doen zij?
Martine van Trigt, Head of Research Affairs, discusses how her team supports researchers with their research.
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‘Children’s healthcare rights deserve more attention’
‘Children’s rights are somewhat of a poor relation’, says Professor of Law and Health Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm. In her inaugural lecture, she will emphasise how more attention needs to be paid to children’s rights in current thinking on law and health.
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Online hate speech undermines society
International Day of Education 2024 is dedicated to the role of education in countering hate speech. Assistant Professor Michael Klos says, 'When people are constantly derided online and that goes unpunished, they may start to withdraw from public discourse.'
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China as a laboratory for the rest of the world
Professor of Modern China Florian Schneider researches what people do with technology and what technology does with people. Social media, for example. And then mainly in China.
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Gilles van Wezel steps down as SD of the IBL: Hubertus Irth appointed as temporary replacement
Gilles van Wezel will step down as Scientific Director (SD) of the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as of June 17th. He has held this position since September 2018. Van Wezel will be temporarily succeeded by Hubertus Irth, the current SD of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR). Irth…
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Leideners and researchers learn from each other at the Science Market
3 October University has become something of a tradition: a bit of science among the Leidens Ontzet celebrations. During the new and improved edition, the WetenschapsWarenMarkt (Science Market), visitors spoke to researchers about the nitrogen problem, making organs and the city’s connections with A…
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Asia Academy #05: Sanctioning North-Korea
Lecture
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Intersecting Global Trends: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO) conference
Conference
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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Crafting Resilience Kick-Off Conference
Conference
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Terrorism and Foreign Fighters: Lecture by Dr. Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Lecture
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
- Leiden University & Elsevier Symposium on Digital Sovereignty
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The 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Working together to fulfil the promise of peace
Conference
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Land for Food: Property contests in capitalist heartlands
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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"I Now Declare You…”: Marital Status as Legal Technology in South Africa, Past and Present
Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture
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Henriëtte van Lynden lezing: A Decade after the Spring - The Arab World at Crossroads.
Lecture, Henriette van Lynden lezing
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Climate justice through the courts: Will courts prevent (and redress) human rights harm from climate change?
Lecture
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
Lecture
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Experience and Voice: Library of Colombian Women Writers - Symposium & Workshop
Symposium & Workshop
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Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics
PhD defence
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Public Leadership in the Digital Age
Debate
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Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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Towards Healthy Societies
Conference, Network event
- 10 years of OPIC - Pathways of Access to Justice for Children
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
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eLaw Open Minded #3 'Impunity and disruptive cybercrime: what role for IT infrastructure companies?'
Lecture
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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Geographies of Repression and Resistance
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Celebration 50 years of the University Council
Conference
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A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, China Seminar
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Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
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The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East, with James Shires
Lecture
- The multi-scale and multi-lingual circulation of knowledge an empirical study of the available data sources in Latin America
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LDE AI Mixer on disinformation and fake news
Leiden AI Week
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80th anniversary of United Nations War Crimes Commission-its legacy and relevance
Conference
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SRS seminar series: The use of neuropsychological information and virtual reality within forensic psychiatry
Seminar series
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Thinking through Drawing and Illustration: A Workshop with Ulrike Uhlig
Course