722 search results for “health society center” in the Student website
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Greta NoordenbosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Rob TollenaarFaculty of Medicine
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Katrien KlepFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hanneke HulstFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy?
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.
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The rocking researcher: Marjolein Fokkema connects disciplines with algorithms and pop songs
From predicting Alzheimer’s to the growth of organisms: psychologist Marjolein Fokkema’s algorithms can be used in many disciplines. They also provide inspiration for her songs, theatre shows and life lessons. What drives this rocking researcher?
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‘If you understand the risks, AI is an incredible tool’
Thomas Moerland studied medicine and mathematics in Leiden and has a lifelong fascination with the origins and workings of intelligence. He brought all that together in his popular science book Van IQ naar AI (From IQ to AI).
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Providing information in palliative care: what if patients don’t want to know everything?
How do you behave towards patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This question brought psychologist Liesbeth van Vliet and anthropologist Annemarie Samuels together. It’s an unusual partnership, but their interdisciplinary approach…
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New endowed chair brings astronomy and AI together. ‘AI can help improve our understanding of the Universe’
ASTRON en de Universiteit Leiden beginnen samen een nieuwe leerstoel over sterrenkunde en AI. Bijzonder hoogleraar Joeri van Leeuwen gaat deze positie vullen.
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How does artificial intelligence influence democratic processes?
An international team of researchers, including scholars from Leiden University, has received a Seed Funding Grant within the Una Europa network. The project, Democracy and AI, focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence on the functioning of democratic systems.
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Jaap van den HerikFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alan SearsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Philip SpinhovenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bernet ElzingaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Willem van der DoesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Archaeologist Valerio Gentile investigates Bronze Age spear combat
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team from Leiden and Göttingen University present a new approach to answering these questions: they simulated the actual fight…
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From lone genius to cocreator: how AI is changing the role of composers
Who is the real creator when a musician uses AI? This was the burning question for Adam Lukawski, himself a composer. During a fascinating premiere at Amare, The Hague’s cultural hub, he demonstrated what cocreation sounds like.
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Lennart Schada von BorzyskowskiFaculty of Science
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Sayeh MohammadiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Esmaralda van 't NetFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Selin TopelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Carlotta RiebleFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maia CasnaFaculty of Archaeology
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Nina EggensFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Cosima NimphyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nina van CapelleveenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Laura SteenbergenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bart Verkuil
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wilma WentholtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Geert-Jan WillFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sanne van LuenenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nikkie BuskermolenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Semiha AydinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lisanne van HoutumFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Archaeological Forum: Sarah Schrader and Alejandra Roche Recinos
Lecture
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Opinion: AI is taking over our jobs – or is the reality more nuanced?
Following the news that TomTom is cutting 300 jobs due to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), FGGA researchers Friso Selten and Alex Ingrams responded with opinion pieces. They place the news in a broader context and call for a more nuanced debate on AI and job losses.
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Honours Class makes cultural heritage tangible: ‘You are dealing with people’
An Honours Class about the ostensibly unrecognisable worlds of insular Southeast Asia teaches students a fundamental piece of wisdom: "We do not differ much from the people at the other end of the world."
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2023
Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. In that respect, a huge amount happened at Leiden University in 2023.
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Digital Humanities Pilot Project Symposium 2025
Symposium
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Ton LiefaardFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Anne Krause-Utz
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nadia GarnefskiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Herman SpainkFaculty of Science
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Mariëlle BruningFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ellen de BruijnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brussels’ as bureaucratic, even undemocratic, bypassing its citizens. And many of us buy into that image. Nikoleta Yordanova, Anastasia Ershova and Aleksandra…
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’