14 February, 2012: Forum discussion "Commercialised Science'
The Dean of the Graduate School invites you to a 'Food for Thought' special on 'Commercialised Science'. The discussion will be in English.
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16-19 February, 2012: HNMUN 2012
Applications for the Harvard National Model United Nations 2012 (HNMUN) are now open!
2 February, 2012: Europe House Lecture 2012
This year's lecture will be given by Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Commission and responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro. The annual Europe House Lecture aims to present important and topical European themes by leading individuals.
8 February, 2012: Dies Natalis
The Executive Board of Leiden University is pleased to invite you to the celebration of the Dies Natalis 2012 on Wednesday 8 February 2012 at 3pm. The ceremony will take place in the Pieterskerk in Leiden.
Public Administration has moved to The Hague
The Institute of Public Administration has left the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences since 1 January 2012. Its is now a part of the Campus The Hague Faculty.
Psychological perspective on surgery
The training for surgeons could be more realistic and more efficient if 'evidence-based' methods were used, according to surgeon and instructor Jaap Hamming. He is therefore working closely with cognitive psychologists Guido Band and Bernhard Hommel on improvements to the training. A custom-made training programme would take more account of the individual surgeons being trained.
16 December, 2011: Lecture Teun Voeten and opening exhibition '20 years of War Photography & World of Walls'
War photographer Teun Voeten will talk about the challenges of his work. This is followed by the opening of the exhibition ’20 Years of War Photography & World of Walls’ with his photographic work and photographic work by three Leiden University anthropologists.
6 December, 2011: Food for Thought lunch
The Dean of the Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences wishes to invite you to a Food for Thought lunch themed 'Emotions and decisions'.
Eveline Crone one of the most powerful women in science
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, is sixth on the list of most powerful women in Teaching and Science, according to Dutch magazine Opzij. Crone is one of the youngest female professors in the Netherlands and already has many awards to her name.
11 November, 2011: Is Pluto a planet? On the role of classification in science. Seminar presentation by Trudy Dehue
Ever since the beginnings of modern philosophy of science its practitioners realized that facts are based on human decisions.
$1.5 million for research on reading problems
Prof. Christine Espin and prof. Paul van den Broek (both in Education and Child Studies), together with prof. Kristen McMaster (University of Minnesota) have received a $1.5 million grant to investigate problems in reading comprehension for struggling readers
12 October, 2011: Food for Thought meeting
Speakers were dr. Tom Louwerse (Political Science) and professor Willem van der Does (Psychology).
7 October, 2011: Seminar presentation by Erik Schultes (LUMC): The Concept Web, Data Publishing, and Automated Knowledge Discovery
Proposed is a mode of data publishing called nanopublications. A nanopublication is the smallest unit of publisheable information, and has the form of a semantic assertion (Subject-Predicate-Object) plus provenance metadata (e.g., author, time-stamp).
'Food for Thought'
An overview of the upcoming 'Food for Thought' luncheon meetings.
2 Sept. 2011: Seminar presentation by Laurens Hessels: Science and the Struggle for Relevance
How to understand changes in the struggle for relevance of Dutch academic researchers in chemistry, biology and agricultural science, in the period 1975-2005.
A truly swinging opening of the new academic year
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences invites all staff and students to the festive opening (in Dutch) of the academic year 2011-12 on Tuesday 6 September from 5:15 pm onwards
Peter Mair (60), Professor of Comparative Politics, recently deceased
It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the sudden passing of our colleague, Prof. Peter Mair (3 March 1951 – 15 August 2011).
Opening Academic Year 2011-2012
On Monday 5 September at 15:00 hrs we will celebrate the ceremonial start of the Academic Year 2011-2012 in the Pieterskerk, Pieterskerkhof 1a, Leiden. The ceremony can also be followed from that time via a live video link.
European subsidy for Sander Nieuwenhuis for the brain in action
Adrenaline stimulates our body to take action. Noradrenaline does the same with our brain. It is the effect of noradrenaline on the brain that is the subject of research by cognitive psychologist Sander Nieuwenhuis. With his Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for talented, up-and-coming researchers, he now has 1.5 million euro to fund his own research team.
Sexist workplace cultures turn women into ‘queen bees’
If your organisation wants more women at the top, you will not succeed just by appointing a few women to top-level positions, claim Leiden researchers. You would be better off changing the sexist organisational culture, because this creates ‘queen bee’ behaviour, where women fight for their own position rather than for their gender.
