886 search results for “theory” in the Staff website
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Projects 2025-2026
For the academic year 2025-2026, nine (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Introducing: prof. Scott Nelson
Introducing prof. Scott Nelson, the Legum Professor of the Social Sciences at William and Mary, and on the spring exchange at the University of Leiden.
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Being aware of implicit bias, diversity and inclusion (Basic)
- The Golden Calf of Artificial Intelligence
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
- Moji Aghajani: "Make your course multidimensional"
- Kiki Zanolie and Bart Vogelaar: "Let students experience what extra challenge can do"
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Data management, privacy and data protection
As a PhD candidate, you work with data. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.
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Animation
Animation is a fun way to explain complicated theories and concepts, in which the visual aid plays a central role and is based around a storyline. An animation can be a stand-alone video with a voice-over but can also be used as part of a talking head video or screencast.
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Project ME | Taking control of your academic career by taking control of yourself
Personal development, Transferable skills
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PhD Supervision That Works: Trust, Clarity, and Productive Dialogue
Course
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Talking head
A talking head is a video in which the presenter is recorded from the waist up. This format usually includes visual aids like slides, a board, an object or an animation. This can be recorded in your office, at home or in the studio. If you consider recording in your office or at home, you might want…
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Documentary
What distinguishes a documentary from other formats is that it uses people and situations in real life to give voice to different opinions, provide a statement on a societal phenomenon and/or give insight into a world that is not easily accessible. If you want to record a documentary, it is important…
- How to record a do-it-yourself video
- Events
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
- Vision on Blended Education
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Crisis and Security: Protect the future
In The Hague, the international city of peace, justice, and security, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs' bachelor's programmes offer you the opportunity to learn from experts in security and crisis response. Here, you will gain the knowledge and skills to keep people, organisations, and societies…
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Politics and Governance: Shape tomorrow’s decisions
The bachelor's programmes at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, based in the city of international cooperation and politics – The Hague – prepare you for a future in governance, leadership, and diplomacy. In the administrative heart of the Netherlands, you will learn to tackle the challenges…
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R introduction
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AI in education
AI is playing an increasing role in education. What is the university’s approach to the opportunities and challenges around AI?
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
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Skillslab: Use your strengths to communicate
Communication, Personal development, Leadership
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Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman back in The Hague: ‘Good policy is not always good politics’
For the second time this academic year, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman visited The Hague. Addressing a packed lecture theatre in our new Spui building, he spoke to students, staff and professionals about the tension between economic advice and political decision-making.
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Short intensive session on educational development
Didactics
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Planet Formation through the Lens of Dynamics
PhD defence
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Inclusive education (UTQ module)
Didactics
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Centre for Digital Scholarship Summer Training Week 2026
Workshops, lectures
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Elementary: The chemical fingerprints of massive galaxy formation over cosmic time
PhD defence
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Production and Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in Standard Chinese: Evidence from L1 Speakers and L2 Learners
PhD defence
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Introducing: Kenan van de Mieroop
Kenan van de Mieroop recently joined the Institute for History as Assistant Professor. Below, he introduces himself.
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How to make cryptographic techniques more efficient?
Sharing scientific data, transferring money, or sending other sensitive information online: with cryptography, applications make sure your data does not fall into the wrong hands. Mathematician Thomas Attema (CWI/TNO/Leiden University) helps with this. For his PhD research, he developed a new technique…
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Comenius grant for more diverse ancient history: 'Especially in the first year of the bachelor, the impact of a project is great'
The History programme has been working for several years to make the curriculum more diverse and inclusive. With a Comenius grant, university lecturer Kim Beerden wants to take the next step.
- How to use video in your teaching?
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Projects 2022-2023
In 2022-2023 eight (teams of) teachers received a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.
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Boost Your Research Impact: Blogging for Academics
Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills
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Core curriculum course Humanities in a Digital World
From 2026-2027, the Faculty of Humanities will add a new core curriculum course to its education: Humanities in a Digital World. The new course will prepare all students for their role as humanities specialists in the digital society. The course has been developed by experts from different study programmes…
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CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift
Conference
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Registration now open for the Basic University Didactics (BUD) trajectory
Education
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Higher Education Knowledge Café: Student wellbeing and the role of everyday teacher-student interactions
Conference, Kenniscafé
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Caspar Jacobs in Philosophers’ Annual: ‘It is not relationships between objects, but absolute properties that are most important’
An article by assistant professor Caspar Jacobs has been included in the prestigious Philosophers’ Annual, which compiles the ten best philosophy articles each year. In ‘Comparativist Theories or Conspiracy Theories?’, he addresses the question of whether objects have fundamental properties.
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ERC Consolidator grant for Alessandra Silvestri: putting gravity to the test on cosmological scales
Does gravity work the same when you look at the largest scales in our universe? That’s what Leiden physicist Alessandra Silvestri will study with a 2 million euro ERC Consolidator grant. ‘We assume that it does, but we don’t actually know.’
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field'
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in the brain. The original research was conducted 20 years ago, but, with an NWO grant, Witteman is now going to see if those results are accurate.