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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology12 February 2019Andrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space'11 February 2019The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) annually awards the best theses on the Ancient Near East. The 2018 award went to archaeology studen...
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2018 Hall of Fame21 December 2018Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Student Igor Djakovic awarded Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship18 October 2018Igor recently started his research master's in Archaeology. Now he is awarded the prestigious Raymond and Beverly Sackler Scholarship. The scholarship...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers15 October 2018The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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Amy Strecker wins Breed Grant to work on Property and Spatial Justice in International Law05 September 2018Dr Amy Strecker has recently been awarded a LGI BREED grant to develop her project on property and spatial justice in international law. Building on h...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchers26 July 2018The European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 mil...
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Corinne Hofman elected to prestigious British Academy fellowship19 July 2018Professor Corinne Hofman has been made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences. She is among 76 distingui...
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2 new Veni-grants: investigating malaria in the Middle Ages and coinage in Rome17 July 2018Two researchers at the Faculty of Archaeology have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award off...
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers16 July 2018Sixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers p...
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David Fontijn appointed as affiliated member German Archaeological Institute11 July 2018The German Archaeological Institute is a world leading research institute, which conducts and facilitates research in the archaeological sciences and ...
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European subsidy for exchanges doubled at Leiden University25 June 2018Almost a hundred students and researchers can study in Leiden or go from Leiden to another university abroad as part of an exchange programme. Fourtee...
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European award for dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials22 June 2018In 2017 Sasja van der Vaart-Verschoof defended her dissertation on Early Iron Age elite burials of the Low Countries at the Faculty of Archaeology. Ou...
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Leiden University Fund awards grants12 June 2018
Over thirty research projects have been awarded a grant from the Leiden University Fund (LUF). The academics each receive a sum of between 5,000 and 2...
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Subsidy for digitalisation of Tell Deir Alla fieldwork09 May 2018The Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) accepted the request for subsidy to digitise the archive of the archaeological fieldwork at Tell Deir...