The LEAD website has been renewed and become independent in order to provide an international platform for the promotion and contribution to research and education in the newly-developing discipline of applied ethnoscience, focussing on Indigenous Knowledge Systems…
Hans C.M. de Bekker conducted PhD research in Tanzania from 2016 to 2020 on Transcultural Health Care Utilisation in Serengeti of Tanzania under the auspices of the LEAD programme at Leiden University. His research provides insight into…
The oldest paleoanthropological archive in the world, the Eugène Dubois archive, was presented to Naturalis Biodiversity Center on 13 January. Leiden professor, Jan Slikkerveer, who was the owner of the archive and spent years researching it, handed…
On 8 August 2018, LEAD received a substantial subsidy of nearly one million Euro from the International Capacity Building of Higher Education Programme (CBHE) of the European Union in Brussels. After the first year, Leiden University (LU)…
In Indonesia, the recent economic transformation from agriculture to manufacturing and services is facing serious problems, largely due to a lack of skilled human capital and unsustainable use of resources. The tourism sector reveals similar problems where…
Jan Slikkerveer, professor in ethnobotanical knowledge systems, wants to develop a new form of sustainable tourism that not only focuses on preserving nature, but also the culture of the host country. For this, he receives an Erasmus…
Vier Leidenaren op Indonesische postzegels – Universiteit Leiden De Leidse botanici Pieter Baas, Jan en Mady Slikkerveer en Soraya Sierra prijken op nieuwe Indonesische postzegels van 5.000 rupia. De postzegels zijn een erkenning voor hun bijdrage aan…
On Wednesday the 23rd of March 2016, Prof. Richard Leakey, the world renowned palaeoanthropologist and conservationist from Kenya and Honorary Member of the LEAD Programme, visited the LEAD Office to contribute to a PhD Workshop. As Supervisor…
This dissertation focuses on the analysis of patterns of transcultural health care utilisation behaviour of the inhabitants of the communities Pirgos and Praitoria in Crete, Greece. In this way, this study pays specific attention to the people’s…
Wina Erwina conducted PhD research in Indonesia from 2014 to 2019 on Iber Kesehatan in Tatar Sunda, Indonesia: Utilisation of Traditional and Modern Health Information and Communication Systems in Sukamiskin, Bandung. Her study has been carried out…