Research Programmes
- Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
- Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology are concerned with human difference and its consequences in different societies. A basic feature of human interaction is the tendency to classify; people assess their own position and that of others in terms of:
- status,
- race,
- class,
- gender,
- religion, or
- level of development
and they form social relationships according to these classifications. In CA/DS we study the relations people form using these classifications and how they change in the course of time.
Research website Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.
- Education and Child Studies
- The Institute of Education and Child Studies has three research programmes:
- Attachments and their cognitive representations are the subjects of research in the programme 'Attachment across the life span'.
- The study of learning disorders aims to contribute to the improvement of clinical services for troubled children and adolescents.
- Research into self-regulated learning focuses on the primary self-regulating strategies needed by children and adolescents to steer and direct their own learning.
Research website Education and Child Studies
- Political Science
- The Institute of Political Science is ambitious in its aim to provide methodologically rigorous research that has a firm basis in state-of-the-art theorizing. Its research focuses primarily on the design, working and implications of political institutions at a national and international level.
Research website Political Science
- Psychology
- The study of human cognition and behaviour lies at the heart of psychology as a scientific discipline. Research at Leiden University’s psychology institute focuses on the ways in which human cognition and behaviour are motivated. Researchers examine how these are influenced by personal and social goals, physical factors and action repertoires. What we think and do is influenced by what we want and feel. Research and teaching at the institute are aimed at developing this theoretical orientation as well as showing how it can be used to help us lead better lives.
Research website Psychology
- Public Administration
- Public Administration is an academic discipline that takes the practical needs of government and society into account. Understanding how administrative and policy systems operate and how they change as the circumstances change is essential for effective governance and sound public policy.
Research website Public Administration
