634 search results for “nigeria society” in the Staff website
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Menno LentingFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter Dijkman
Faculty of Humanities
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Marieke Westmaas
Faculty of Humanities
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Yvonne Bleyerveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Maaike HommesFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike Siemes
Luris
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society
Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore promoting research on the placebo effect and offering expertise and training for care providers. At the opening, the founders demonstrated their VR communications…
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Saskia Cohen-WillnerFaculty of Humanities
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Claire Perrette
Faculty of Archaeology
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Leiden Healthy Society Center match-making event
Matchmaking event
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Mensenrechten overal anders geïnterpreteerd. Hoe kan dat?
Hoe kan het dat universele mensenrechten wereldwijd niet hetzelfde in de praktijk worden gebracht?
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Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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Benito investigated benefits scandal: ‘rules can profoundly impact society’
The child benefits scandal caused significant harm to families. The independent Hamer Commission specifically investigated the link between the scandal and the removal of children from their homes. Public Administration student Benito Walker was a member of this commission and shares his experiences…
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Anne Land-ZandstraFaculty of Science
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screen. Leiden partnership wins award from the Royal Astronomical Society
Simulation project EAGLE has won the 2022 Group Achievement Award of the Royal Astronomical Society. EAGLE is a large collection of simulations about the formation of galaxies. The largest simulation contains as many as 6.8 billion particles and took months to calculate on the world's fastest superc…
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Food for Thought: Unhealthy Finance -Shifting Responsibilities in Society”
Lecture, Food for Thought
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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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In conversation with our researchers during the Dutch Bio Science Week
The past few days we interviewed several of our researchers about their various studies during Dutch Bio Science Week. They answered questions such as what impact their research has on our future and with whom they have established valuable collaborations.
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Health@FSW: From loving-kindness meditation to selective mutism
Can kindness training increase political tolerance? And how can we better support children with selective mutism? During the Health@FSW knowledge market and exchange event on 26 May 2025, researchers from all five institutes showcased how their work aligns with the faculty’s research strategy and contributes…
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Digital Humanities Winter School 2026
Workshops
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Paul CliteurFaculty of Law
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Santy KouwagamFaculty of Law
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Janine UbinkFaculty of Law
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Focussing on lifelong mental health
A healthy and happy society. This is what researchers from the Faculty of Social Sciences are working towards, together with a selection of partners from different disciplines and regions. To further structure research about Health and Well-being, the faculty has identified three focus area’s. Researchers…
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Andrea EversSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees
Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is considering six nominations. All of great quality, but on different topics. These range from political party bans to questions regarding commitment within…
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ISGA Contributes to Training African Officers in Military Diplomacy
The Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) of Leiden University contributed to the design and teaching of modules of this year’s edition of the Ministry of Defence’s ‘International Military Cooperation Course Africa’.
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Vladimir Gildin-Zuckerman
Faculty of Humanities
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Iris de Wit
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Corjanus
Faculty of Humanities
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Paulina Pía Bastián AlvaradoFaculty of Humanities
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David van BodegomFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Tineke AbmaFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Guus van der Peet
Faculty of Humanities
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Alex Gekker
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik de Bruin
Faculty of Humanities
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Sebastiaan van Wijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen van MulierFaculty of Humanities
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Sophie van RomburghFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmar HugenFaculty of Humanities
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Sini HassinenFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke DrostFaculty of Science
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Paulina Rabah Ramírez
Faculty of Humanities