Morality, mathematics, geometry, geography, music, navigation, and language are traditionally viewed as uniquely human cultural achievements and abilities. The study of their development and variation is classified as part of the humanities and social sciences. These fields have been mainly studied…

Knowledge and culture subproject 4: "Poetry, rhythm, and meter" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Knowledge and culture subproject 2: "Language and number" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Knowledge and culture subproject 3: "Visual arts and geometry" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Knowledge and culture subproject 1: "Music Cognition" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Knowledge and culture subproject 2: "Language and number" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Promotor: Prof.dr. L.J. Slikkerveer

Professor Johan Rooryck will be examining cognition and core knowledge systems and how possession is expressed in different languages. Rooryck and fellow researchers have been awarded two NWO grants totalling 2.75 million euro to carry out two research programmes: 'Knowledge and Culture' and 'Lend me…

Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.

LUCL is pleased to announce that Professor Johan Rooryck has been awarded both an NWO Horizon Grant for his project entitled 'Knowledge and culture', and an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant for his project entitled 'Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession' for a total of €2.75m.

The experimental approach of science applied to artistic research

Lecture, Gravensteen Lecture

According to the amyloid cascade hypothesis, accumulation of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides initiates the pathological cascade in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

This project is situated within the context of an innovation of the biology curriculum in Dutch secondary schools. The main purposes are (1) to clarify the relation between teachers’ practical knowledge and the decisions they make when planning and implementing their lessons and (2) to develop a professional…

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

The thesis addresses the long-term dynamical evolution of hierarchical multiple systems.

Promotor: G.F.A. Kersten, W. Jiskoot, Co-promotor: B. Metz

The objective of this project is to understand the content and structure of science teachers’ knowledge and beliefs, and how these change in the context of pre-service teacher education and educational innovation.

Teaching reading comprehension in secondary education

Researchers have the whole world as their work area. Dutch researchers collaborate with Chinese, Australians give lectures in Lithuania, Koreans move to America and back. Who can contribute to academic knowledge, who benefits from it and who pays for it? A fair and effective system for this has not…

The Computer Systems, Imagery & media (CSI) research programme performs research on methods and techniques for the design, implementation and application of advanced computer systems, in particular parallel, distributed and embedded computer systems.

Promotor: J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: H.J. Hoogeboom

In the hunt for a vaccine against cervical cancer, fundamental knowledge about the immune system and organic chemistry have been brought together and have already resulted in a vaccine that is now being tested in clinical trials. Scientists are now working hard on an improved variant.

Together with members of indigenous communities Leiden researchers preserve and disseminate philosophical, historical and medical knowledge.

Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: J. K. Asboth

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Prof.dr. D.R. Stanski

Systems are called real-time systems, if the correctness of the system does not only depend on the correctness of the system output but also on whether the output is delivered on time.

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

This dissertation reports on the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of science teachers during a professional development program. This research intended to help us understand why and how teachers make their classroom decisions as they teach science.

Promotores: W. Jiskoot, F. Ossendorp

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Kuiper

This project aims to explore and examine the factors that impact upon the efficacy of information disclosure duties pertaining to customer data use in online business.

Promotor: J. van der Greef, T. Hankemeier; Co-promotor: H.A. van Wietmarschen

Discovery and development of Central Nervous System (CNS) drugs is hampered by high attrition rates.

Knowledge and culture subproject 3: "Visual arts and geometry" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Social aspects of the learning environment, also called classroom climate, are important for students’ cognitive and affective learning outcomes. In this thesis the classroom climate is operationalised by means of two components: the teacher-class relationship and classroom discipline.

Promotor: F.H.J. Redig, Co-Promotor: W.T.F. den Hollander

Apart from PhD monographs, the LEAD Programme has also published several books and reports. Some works which have been published by the LEAD Programme or other publishers are as follows:

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F.A. Deprettere, Co-promoter: Todor P. Stefanov

An important hormone excreting gland in the human body is the pituitary

High-throughput holistic preclinical screens are increasingly used in drug discovery, to assess both drug efficacy and drug safety.

This thesis describes the use of an activity-based proteomics method to study the endocannabinoid system.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotoren: M.F.E. de Jeu, S.D. Silvestrov

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

This thesis reports on a study that examined the development of L1 teachers’ practical knowledge when they researched and implemented concept-context rich education in an action-research setting.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

What is the most effective way to eliminate tumour cells? The DNA repair mechanism could play an important role in increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy in the fight against cancerous cells. If we are to influence this mechanism, we need fundamental knowledge about how the mechanism works.