700 search results for “motivation en cognitive” in the Staff website
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Creating a sustainable university: ‘You need breathing space for activist work’
More papers, more grants, more students: constant growth is still the gold standard at universities. Neuroscientists Anne Urai and Claire Kelly argue that this mentality obstructs us in resolving such complex societal problems as the climate crisis. Their alternative? The university as a doughnut.
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Conference on opportunities and dangers of AI: ‘Europe needs a daring vision’
The SAILS conference The Future of AI is Here (and Guess What … it’s Human) brought together researchers and policy makers to discuss the important issues in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). Where are the opportunities and what are the dangers?
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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone
Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and discovered that men, in particular, tend to overestimate the interest of their date. She explains why this may be.
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SSH labs: a place to be inspired by your colleagues
The new SSH labs will offer great opportunities for FSW and FGW staff engaged in experimental research. The labs will be a place of inspiration, not only because of the state-of-the-art equipment, but also as a result of the increased interaction with colleagues in other disciplines.
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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Sophie van RijnSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
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Indistinguishable Likeness
PhD defence
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Blended Learning: Using digital tools for teaching
Didactics
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Live Q&A with OpenAI: AI and the Future of Humanity
Debate, Live Q&A
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Giftedness PhD peer support group
Personal development
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Shipwrecks and Cultural Diplomacy
Lecture
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Best practices
On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Paul Natorp’s Reformulation of the Kantian Distinction between Intuition and Concept
PhD defence
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: 'Interdisciplinary Education'
Conference, Knowledge Café
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Food for Thought: Unhealthy Finance -Shifting Responsibilities in Society”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Psychology Connected: Gender Differences
Conference
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Professional learning of vocational teachers in the context of work placement
PhD defence
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Worlds shaped by words: A cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production
PhD defence
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Psychology Connected: Work, Pressure or Pleasure?
Conference
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Dynamic Capabilities as microfoundations for technological business model innovation in law firms
PhD defence
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Connect & Learn: How a large, complex, sensitive dataset is managed for long-term access and use
Netwerkbijeenkomst
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CANCELLED: LCN2 Seminar: Algorithms for Network Visualization and beyond
Lecture
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Breaking Barriers, Personalizing Pathways - Psychological health and self-management of people with chronic kidney disease
PhD defence
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Investigating structure and function of the dopaminergic midbrain - with a special focus on the human VTA
PhD defence
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The new self-evaluation of the Institute of Psychology: ‘The quality of the academic culture is more important’
Better supervision of PhD candidates, clear guidelines on career paths and an MRI scanner that can be accessed by all researchers: these are the recommendations from the new self-evaluation. Colleagues say: ‘This forces us as an institute to formulate our mission and vision more precisely.’
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Thirteen NWO Open Competition XS grants for Leiden researchers
From medicines from snake venom to supercrops and the origin of words. Thirteen researchers from Leiden University will receive Open Competition XS grants from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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How do you help a child suffering from depression?
What causes depression in a child and how can they get over it? Leiden Professor of Psychology Bernet Elzinga and behavioural scientist Carine Kielstra recently hosted a webinar on the subject of depression in teenagers. The level of interest was overwhelming.
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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything.’
‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting researchers to be experts at everything, even though she herself keeps a lot of balls in the air.
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Stimulating Open Science and Recognition & Rewards
Greater transparency in science. Broader career paths. Less work pressure. A dynamic conversation at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW) focused on these goals.
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Om te beginnen met gezond gedrag moeten vaak eerst problemen als schimmel op de muren of financiële sores worden aangepakt
Medici kunnen veel repareren, maar ziekte voorkomen of uitstellen is beter. Daarvoor is vaak leefstijlverandering nodig en dat blijkt lastig. Gezondheidswetenschappers Sandra van Dijk (Universiteit Leiden) en Valentijn Visch (TU Delft) doen onderzoek naar de vraag hoe je mensen kunt helpen met gedragsverandering…
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher
For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee Turkey and start again from scratch in the Netherlands. Re-entering the academic world was a challenge, but he rediscovered his love for the field in…
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Peter van BodegomFaculty of Science
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Forum Antiquum Lecture: Plato’s winged chariot in Coetzee’s Jesus Trilogy: Literature’s journey toward transcendence
Lecture
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Disability Support System workshop
Lecture, workshop
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Psychology Connected: Depression and resilience
Conference
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Psychology Connected: Human Mistakes
Conference
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Methodology & Statistics Alumni meet students in Psychology
Alumni event, Career
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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Michiel Westenberg advocates prevention for social anxiety: ‘Why wait until the damage has been done?’
Shyness is perfectly normal, Michiel Westenberg stated in his farewell lecture. But that doesn’t mean that social anxiety shouldn’t be identified and addressed in good time. ‘Serious shyness has strong genetic roots; you don’t just get over it.’
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SMILE Kick-off Session - POSTPONED
Lecture, SMILE series
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LGBTIQ+ Workplace Inclusion Symposium
Debate, Symposium
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Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Conference
Conference
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Plato's Myths: Tools for Thinking Conference
Conference