Irene Khan, expert op het gebied van mensenrechten, werpt een aantal vragen op: Wat kan men verstaan onder een ‘Culture of Justice’? Wie bepaalt wat 'Justice' is? Hoe realistisch is de bevordering van ‘Rule of Law’ en ‘Justice’ in landen waar sprake is van ernstige conflictsituaties en armoede?

The NWO-funded Vidi project “American foreign policy and liberalism” challenges the idea that the United States has created and sustained a “liberal international order” since World War II. It instead explores the ways in which illiberal ideologies – such as those underpinning racial hierarchy at home…

Within the field of astronomy, understanding how galaxies grow and evolve from the Big Bang to the present day is a challenging and complex question.

Security and safety challenges rank among the most pressing issues of modern times. Challenges such as cyber-crime, terrorism, and environmental disasters impact the lives of millions across the globe. The course will introduce you to this broad theme in an increasingly complex world.

Het thema 'Health and well-being in a healthy society' is één van de speerpunten van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen (FSW). We zetten ons in voor het bevorderen van gezondheid en welzijn voor mensen van alle leeftijden.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F.P. Israel, Prof.dr. P.P. van der Werf

Make more fluid: In condensed matter systems, electrons can acquire unusual properties from their interaction with the atomic lattice.

Op dinsdag 24 maart is het boek 'The European Public Servant: A shared Administrative Identity?' verschenen.

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In het kader van de zomerschool "Medieval Religon" geeft prof. Christopher M. Bellitto (Kean University) op 26 juni een keynote lezing getiteld "Politics and Religion in the Middle Ages and Today: Thoughts of an American Medievalist". Deze lezing is ook toegankelijk voor geïnteresseerden die niet deelnemen…

Het boek gaat in op de vraag: Hoe en waarom raken mensen betrokken bij het Europese 'homegrown jihadisme'?

De Democratische Volksrepubliek van Korea is niet democratisch, het volk heeft er niets te zeggen, het is geen republiek en het omvat slechts de helft van Korea. Wat het wél is, beschrijft Remco Breuker in 'De B.V. Noord-Korea'.

The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…

The long-held desire - to link structure directly to function and to explain molecular mechanisms based on basic chemical or physical principles - is finally coming closer, satisfying not only our scientific curiosity but also offering new solutions to the many challenges in the field of health, energy…

Ontdek het studieprogramma van de éénjarige MSc Nederlandse Politiek aan Universiteit Leiden: kernvak, keuzevakken, onderzoeksvaardigheden, scriptiebegeleiding en stageoptie.

De minor Creative Strategies for a Society in Change (CSSC) legt een verbinding tussen het verkrijgen van inzicht in creatieve maakprocessen en het verkennen van maatschappelijke problematieken die kenmerkend zijn voor onze tijd.

Een nieuw internationaal, open-access tijdschrift op het terrein van politieke wetenschappen en bestuurskunde gaat van start: Research and Politics (R&P). Bernard Steunenberg, hoogleraar binnen het Instituut Bestuurskunde van Faculteit Campus Den Haag, is mede-initiatiefnemer en editor van dit blad.

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft, G.A. van der Marel, Co-Promotor: R.G. Boot

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are mechanical waves that travel along the surface of a material and find many applications in modern technologies due to the ease of excitation on piezoelectric substrates via interdigital transducers (IDTs).

Webinar, discussion

Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…

On the largest scale, the Universe resembles a cosmic spiderweb. Most galaxies coexist in small groups within the threads of this web. At the nodes of the threads are enormous groups of galaxies forming the largest structures in the universe still held together by gravity: clusters of galaxies.

In this dissertation, we work towards an experiment in which we aim to bring a micrometer sized magnet at the tip of a soft cantilever into a superposition.

The stratum corneum is the outermost skin layer and consists of dead cells embedded in a lipid matrix.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Promotor: W.T. de Groot

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

Like a mixture of oil and water, lipid membranes separate into two liquid phases.

Promotores: Prof.dr. F. van Lunteren, Prof.dr. F.S. Gaastra

This thesis pioneers diatom molecular identification and quantification through genome-scale methods, with four key aims: (i) reviewing DNA/RNA sequencing methods in aquatic biomonitoring to highlight their strengths and limitations;

Humans can see the world through the eyes of other humans and imagine what they know, want, and intend. This competence is known as Theory of Mind.

n this PhD thesis, the recombination of different atomic lattices in stacked 2D materials such as twisted bilayer graphene is studied. Using the different possibilities of Low-Energy Electron Microscopy (LEEM), the domain forming between the two atomic layers with small differences is studied.

In this thesis, classes of strongly interacting quantum field theories, have been studied.

Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.

Studievoorlichting

Studievoorlichting

A novel mathematical model describes spatial-temporal drug distribution within one or more brain units, which are cubic representations of a piece of brain tissue with brain capillaries at the edges.

Kantorowicz onderzoekt hoe genderstereotypen de perceptie van leiderschapscompetentie beïnvloeden bij verschillende soorten crises.

Dit onderzoek presenteert een vijfstappenplan voor de ontwikkeling van een effectieve gedragsgerichte cyberveiligheidsstrategie.

Vaak wordt gezegd dat een crisis iemands ware aard naar boven brengt. Het coronavirus stelt het multilaterale systeem op de proef. Politicoloog Gisela Hirschmann (Universiteit Leiden) maakt zich zorgen over de toekomst van internationale samenwerking.

This study seeks to analyse how job stress could be the result of performing administrative tasks

In dit artikel onderzoeken Wout Broekema, Wouter Jong en Sara Perlstein het ontwerp en de beoordeling van crisisonderzoeken vanuit een leerperspectief.

De auteurs presenteren een benadering voor het achterhalen van de voorkeuren van de bevolking voor gebruik in de optionele wegingstap in de Levenscyclusanalyse (LCA).

Taking as a point of departure the Italian American community in Boston and its process of collective remembrance surrounding Saint Anthony’s Feast, we addressing the limits and potential of montage.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-Promotor: L.W. Chatrou

Promotores: Prof.dr. H.P. Spaink & Prof.dr. P.C.W. Hogendoorn Co-promotor: Dr. M.J.M. Schaaf

In the current global context, there is a pressing need to address sustainable energy supplies to safeguard our Planet and its ecosystems. The choices made by human society have a significant impact on genetic evolution and climate.

Pharmaceutical companies, governments and the general public have become increasingly aware that animal models used in drug testing lack vital aspects to serve as an accurate representation of human biology. As models of the human body should become more physiologically relevant, animal models no longer…

Atherosclerosis is the most important underlying process that drives cardiovascular disease, and is characterized by an accumulation of cholesterol which triggers an inflammatory response in the vessel wall.