1,506 search results for “reading life” in the Public website
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On Display: Instagram, the Self, and the City
Discover the impact of Instagram on our daily lives in the book On Display. Boy and Uitermark delve into the platform's influence on our social interactions.
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Oud CADS promovendus Stacey MacDonald in Atlas over natuurbeleid op Bonaire
In the scientific television programme Atlas, social psychologist and former Cultural Anthropology PhD student Stacey MacDonald talks about her research on Bonaire. She shows how to align different parties to make conservation projects succeed.
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Interested in healthcare and wellbeing?
Are you curious about how health, behaviour and our living environment are connected? At Leiden University, you’ll explore how people grow up, age and live together in a changing world. From mental health to sustainable cities, from lifestyle to healthcare policy: you’ll learn to understand societal…
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Interested in healthcare and wellbeing?
Are you curious about how health, behaviour and our living environment are connected? At Leiden University, you’ll explore how people grow up, age and live together in a changing world. From mental health to sustainable cities, from lifestyle to healthcare policy: you’ll learn to understand societal…
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Study preparations
Get ready for your studies. Learn about university ID cards, the student website, your rights as a student, and Dutch student life.
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Simcha Jong Kon ChinFaculty of Science
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Anne Land-ZandstraFaculty of Science
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Faces of Leiden University College The Hague
Twenty-two year old student of Leiden University College The Hague, Sara Kemppainen on her role as European Union Delegate at the G(irls)20 Summit, founder of WIL, UWC Alumni, Summit Coordinator and Bachelor student committed to bringing human welfare to the center of tech policy.
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Burden of disease and quality of life in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
PhD defence
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Expanding the coverage of ecosystem service impacts in Life Cycle Assessment
PhD defence
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Pumping new life into preclinical pharmacokinetics; Exploring the pharmacokinetic application of ex vivo organ perfusion
PhD defence
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Life cycle assessment of emerging chemical technology systems: challenges and future needs
PhD defence
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Financing Afterlives: An Ethnography of Life Insurance in New Orleans, USA
PhD defence
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Life of Phi: Phi-features in West Germanic and the syntax-morphology interface
PhD defence
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Bringing Archives to Life: Exploring legacy materials, digital tools, and data utilization
Conference, Workshop
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Improving Side-effects and Quality of Life of Systemic Therapy in Oncology
PhD defence
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How polluting are the clothes in your closet?
Cotton is the most widely used natural fibre for clothes. But how polluting are our jeans and shirts actually? Environmental scientist Laura Scherer coordinated an international research project on the impacts of cotton. ‘The purchases of consumers in Europe can contribute to water scarcity in China…
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Tropical start to 55th edition of EL CID
Armed with sunglasses, a thick layer of sunscreen and several bottles of water, over 3,300 students have arrived in Leiden for their introduction week. The start of the 55th EL CID happened to be on the hottest day of the year.
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Hanno PijlFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Klaas VrielingFaculty of Science
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Dennis HetterscheidFaculty of Science
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Nico SchrijverFaculty of Law
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Marieke TollenaarSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Karsten LambersFaculty of Archaeology
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Who are you without that cigarette?
Do you want to be successful at stopping smoking? If so, the main thing is that you should see yourself as a non-smoker. Psychologist Eline Meijer has discovered that smokers who are unable to do this are more likely to resume smoking. This is more common among smokers from a lower socio-economic background.…
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What does a pilot know about fear of flying?
As a psychologist and pilot, Bert Busscher is interested in the phenomenon often termed as fear of flying. Busscher discovered that the heart rate of a person undergoing a therapeutic flight shows how much they still suffer from fear of flying. The post-flight heart rate can even predict whether the…
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research project to examine whether automatically regulated responses, such as the circadian rhythm, can be conditioned during sleep.
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Rebecca Schaefer on 'Learning with music can change brain structure'
Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study co-authored by Leiden psychologist Rebecca Schaefer. The results are published in the journal Brain & Cognition.
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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LUC student Jennifer Pfister on Deconstructing Generation Z
Social entrepreneur, Co-Founder of 'Women in Innovation and Leadership' and LUC student. In a recent article published by German news outlet 'Bento' third year student in Governance, Economics and Development Jennifer Pfister spoke about her role as a social entrepreneur and student at LUC.
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Adriaan BednerFaculty of Law
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Wessel KraaijFaculty of Science
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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LCCP Colloquium "Reading Heidegger’s Confession: On Creativity as an Evaluative Criterion for World Philosophies"
Lecture
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Genomics applications of Nanopore long-read sequencing for small to large sized genomes
PhD defence
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Moving Beyond Identity: Reading The Zhuāngzǐ and Levinas as Resources for Comparative Philosophy
PhD defence
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Kick Off: World Class The Hague
Following the United Nations Day of peace the kick off of World Class The Hague 2019-2020 took place at Museon, The Hague. World Class is a forum for discussion where selected students from various institutions across The Hague are given the opportunity to visit international institutions, engage in…
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Social support and quitter-identity may help smokers quit
Receiving positive support and seeing yourself as being a quitter may help smokers quit, say Eline Meijer and colleagues. The health psychologists published their study in Social Science & Medicine.
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Expectations can relieve pain
To relieve a patient's pain, it can be effective to induce expectations. This finding is promising for optimising the effectiveness of treatments, conclude Kaya Peerdeman and colleagues in their article in PAIN.
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Imagination can reduce pain
If you imagine in advance that something is not going to hurt, this could mean you experience less pain. This discovery was made by health psychologist Kaya Peerdeman during her PhD research on the placebo effect. PhD defence 7 February.
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About the programme
To maximise your personal development, we ensure tutorials are small-scale and staff members extremely accessible. In year one, you’ll have an average of 12 contact hours, half of which comprise lectures (in English) and the remainder tutorials (optionally Dutch or English).
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Classes on offer
Below you will find an overview of all PRE-Classes provided by the various programmes of Leiden University. For each section, you can find a description of the content and more specific information about the requirements for participation in the Class.
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Hanna Swaab
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Contextual Support and Quality of Life of Individuals with Intellectual Disability and Severe and Persistent Challenging Behaviour
PhD defence
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Gender and Agency in Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
PhD defence
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Life In Plastic, Not Always Fantastic: Nano- and microplastics and their impact on terrestrial plants and the food chain
PhD defence
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Careers after graduation
What jobs in healthcare can I do after the master Population Health Management?