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From International Relations to combatting financial crime10 July 2023Vivian Ng came back to Leiden last June to finally sign the walls of the Sweat Room. Graduated in 2020 during the pandemic, she missed out on this won...
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Check out the new International Studies alumni video07 July 2023What are International Studies Alumni doing after graduation? Get to know Guido, Paulien and Lennart. They all studied International Studies at Leiden...
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Launching new CPL course Academie voor de Rechtsstaat: focus on developing ‘a constitutional antenna’04 July 2023Leiden University's Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) and the Montesquieu Institute are jointly launching the ‘Academie voor de Rechtsstaat’ (Aca...
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Sjoert van Velzen receives Vidi grant to solve 'riddles from the universe'29 June 2023Minuscule elementary particles from space colliding with Earth can give us an insight into the distant objects they come from. But first, you need to ...
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Helping GPs identify patients with persistent somatic symptoms earlier26 June 2023Medical psychologist Willeke Kitselaar developed a model that helps identify patients with persistent somatic symptoms earlier, based on an extensive ...
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Psychology Connected on ChatGPT: How can we use AI without losing our own cognitive skills?21 June 2023Writing essays, refining grant applications, or creating a new course curriculum—ChatGPT assists students and researchers in these endeavours. What th...
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Being an anthropologist in a big company ‘it’s interesting to look at the internal culture of a business'19 June 2023Leonie Siepman is Global Culture & Change Manager at Mammoet. She followed the Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology bachelor programme and ...
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From chemistry teacher to founder of outdoor escape room company15 June 2023Alumnus Vincent Renken studied Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences in Leiden and is now co-founder of an outdoor escape room company. ‘I asked myself: do you ...
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Interview with alumna Jolien Schukking: Working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights14 June 2023Alumna Jolien Schukking has been working as a judge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg since 2017. In this special role, she provides...
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Prize for production of sustainable rose smell14 June 2023Sustainable rose smell that can be produced on a large scale. Tobias Fecker made this into a possibility during his master's thesis, which was a colla...
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections13 June 2023Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collecti...
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’13 June 2023Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to ...
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New DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship for Indonesian Special Collections12 June 2023Every year, the DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programme offers three senior (postdoc) researchers affiliated with a state or private university in Indonesia...
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An inside view from the International Relations MA06 June 2023'After my BA International Studies I decided to do the MA International Relations, and that proved to be a good choice,' Mats Radeck (23, Trier, Germa...
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Alumna Gaby van de Wal: 'Don’t worry, you’ll be all right'05 June 2023'The kind of knowledge you gain in International Studies can take you anywhere,' says Gaby van de Wal (26, The Hague, The Netherlands), who graduated ...