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PhD Defence

Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years

The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.

Organized by the GSA, all internal PhD students annually have a personal progress interview: the Annual Review.

Promotor: H.J.M. de Groot, Co-Promotor: A. Alia

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Co-promotor: Dr. A.J. Knobbe

The programme of the master specialisation Learning Problems and Impairments studies common learning problems such as dyslexia, hyperlexia and dyscalculia, as well as learning disabilities caused by AHDH, ADD or speech and language disorders. Much attention is also devoted to the relation between brain…

A list of the activities of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media:

Read here about the progress that Leiden University is making with regards to sustainability

How can we quantify the density of species within a community through environmental DNA concentrations?

Read about the current reseach projects of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media.

The Master’s specialisation in Educational Sciences offers students cutting-edge insights into the learning and developing child in education. Furthermore, students practice translating the implications of this knowledge to educational practices including instruction, social interaction, and assessment.…

Meet the people of the Centre for Learning and Literacy across Media

The European Homicide Monitor (EHM) offers a standardized framework for countries and regions to compare homicide characteristics, patterns and trends.

The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer

'A spectacular new Philippine monitor lizard reveals a hidden biogeographic boundary and a novel flagship species for conservation' . CML-researcher Merlijn van Weerd has participated in a new article in Biology Letters about this discovery.

The Children’s Rights Monitor provides a thematic overview of the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Netherlands.

Source: Structure , Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 1120-1139 (2014)

Science and education can really flourish in an environment where everyone can be themselves and where there is room for different perspectives that bring people together from different ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, health, religion, age and socio-economic background.

Promotores: H.S. Overkleeft; G.A. van der Marel Co-Promotor: B.I. Florea

This dissertation reports on the beliefs and perceptions of Chinese and Dutch university teachers regarding the role of research in university teaching and how these beliefs and perceptions can be explained by their cultural, institutional and individual background characteristics

An international comparative study of the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Development of indicators to assess decoupling of economic development and environmental pressure in the EU-25 and AC-3 countries.

What are the institutional dynamics of the adoption of internal market legislation?

How do nanoparticles bioaccumulate and biodistribute in organisms?

The better teaching is for pupils and students, the more solid the basis will be that we give them for their future careers. This type of teaching requires strong instructors and insight into the best ways in which pupils can be supported, and research at Leiden University is making a contribution in…

Microneedles represent promising tools for delivery of drugs to the skin. However, before these microneedles can be used in clinical practice, it is essential to understand the process of skin penetration by these microneedles.

Can we predict fluctuations in suicidal ideation in a person’s daily life, from hour to hour?

In this thesis, we aimed to better understand the underlying mechanisms involved in TNBC progression and metastasis formation and discover new targets to reduce breast cancer related deaths.

Twelve researchers of our Law School have been awarded an ILS seed money grant. This grant enables researchers to create space for preparing a grant proposal for NWO, ERC or otherwise.

The objective of this project is to fundamentally improve our understanding of the ways in which science progresses. Empirical studies have used bibliographic metadata to provide relevant insights, but these studies have failed to tell us how science progresses. Supported by computational advances and…

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The two-year programme consists of 120 European Credit Transfer System points (EC) and includes core courses (40 EC), an Industrial Ecology Project (10 EC), specialization courses (35 EC) and the Thesis Research Project (35 EC).

This project’s aim is to critically assess current homicide data sources in order to develop a proposal for long-term EU-level monitoring of DRH.

The more opportunities a child has to learn and develop, the stronger his or her future position in society. Leiden University investigates how the brain picks up information, and how learning processes can be influenced positively.

The aim of this project is to explore the use of statistical interaction models to quantify cross-omics and omics-drug interactions in large-scale clinical and experimental datasets

Spirited narratives of purpose and progress: church-society engagement alongside the (Company-) state

Members of the Brain and Education Lab are teaching several courses at Leiden University. See below for a short overview of these courses and for possibilities to get involved in current research projects.

How does the vision of problems and solutions from "Water companies of the future" spread in society and ultimately lead to change?

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water, Co-promotor: E.H.J. Danen

Governance of Sustainability is a two-year programme, worth 120 European Credit Transfer System points (ECTS).

Empathic or anxious mistakes? A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments