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An overview of Dutch politics and Political Science in the Netherlands: the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics 31 October 2024
Dutch politics has long been a paragon of stability. Think, for example, of our party system until, say, the last decade. At the same time, we also se...
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Food as a powerful way to understand social reality and its dynamics 30 October 2024
Framing Poland through the lens of post-socialism, as is common in the social sciences, has become outdated. This label no longer captures the rapid c...
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New chair in Educational Theory and Law bridges the gap between research and child protection 29 October 2024
Dr Anouk Goemans has been appointed professor by special appointment of Youth Services and child protection from an educational and legal perspective ...
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New research: Sleep plays key role in predicting suicidal thoughts 29 October 2024
A restless night aggravates symptoms in those experiencing suicidal thoughts, as psychologists Liia Kivelä and Niki Antypa have found in their study o...
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Vidi grant for The Future of Dying 24 October 2024
Amidst the growing availability of advanced life-lengthening medical interventions, both healthcare professionals and patients are recognizing that le...
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Mark Lindenberg and Ieke van Dam winners of the Metje Postma Awards 23 October 2024
'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university 22 October 2024
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...
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Nina Schmal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2024 21 October 2024
Successfully completing a master’s thesis in Political Science is no small feat. Not only is this for most students the most extensive and in-depth re...
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Saga Sjöberg and Thijs Brinksma win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes 2024 21 October 2024
All students receiving their bachelor diploma in Political Science last week had a reason or two to celebrate. Two of them especially so: they won the...
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Kaare Strøm award for institute member Thijs Vos 17 October 2024
This summer, political scientist Thijs Vos received the Kaare Strøm prize for his paper ‘Power or Ideology? What structures legislative voting behavio...
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre 17 October 2024
Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
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Social Science Matters: Internationalization 15 October 2024
International education in the Netherlands is under pressure. There is pressure on the student housing market, and there is a greater desire among rig...
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'It’s the complexity of this group of patients that makes the challenge of improving their quality of life so interesting’ 13 October 2024
Dialysis patients experience a range of physical and mental symptoms that interact and influence each otherIn her doctoral research, psychologist Judi...
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Adina Akbik wins Student-led Teaching Award 10 October 2024
This September, Adina Akbik received the Political Science Teaching Award at Leiden University. Created by student members of the Bachelor's and Maste...