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2021: This was the year of our faculty17 December 20212021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus e...
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Sanneke Kuipers appointed professor of Crisis Governance: 'Crises arise from very mundane causes'15 December 2021The Executive Board appointed Sanneke Kuipers as full professor effective January 1, 2022. Her chair is Crisis Governance. She combines this chair wit...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education29 November 2021Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Olaf van Vliet appointed Professor of Economics25 November 2021The Executive Board has appointed Olaf van Vliet as Professor of Economics at Leiden University, specialising in social security and labour market pol...
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Grant for workshop series on Ocean Governance09 November 2021Dr. Vanessa Newby (ISGA) and Dr. Catherine Jones from St Andrews won a grant worth over €23.000 from the RSE Saltire Facilitation Network Award entitl...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors14 October 2021Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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Jaap van den Herik receives royal distinction on his retirement08 October 2021Jaap van den Herik was appointed Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau on 8 October on his retirement as professor of Law and Information Technology.
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Tahir Abbas becomes Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences30 September 2021Tahir Abbas, associate professor at ISGA, has been appointed as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. The Academy of Social Sciences is the UK’s...
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Elif Naz Kayran received APSA Best Dissertation Award29 September 2021Dr. Elif Naz Kayran received the Best Dissertation Award from the Migration & Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)...
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François Delerue Wins 2021 Book Prize of European Society of International Law15 September 2021Senior Researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and Associate Fellow of The Hague Program of Cyber Norms François Delerue was awarde...
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Valerie Sticher wins Cedric Smith Prize 202114 September 2021Valerie Sticher has been awarded the Cedric Smith Prize 2021 of the Conflict Research Society (CRS) for an article she wrote as a part of her disserta...
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Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling09 September 2021‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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Judi Mesman awarded Stevin Prize for research on upbringing and diversity03 September 2021What influence do children’s upbringing and education have on their world view? This is the question Professor Judi Mesman is trying to answer. For he...
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Impact factor for open access journal Research & Politics (RAP)20 July 2021Research & Politics (RAP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which focusses on research in political science and related fields through open acces...
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Vidi grant for seven researchers from Leiden University14 July 2021From malaria parasites as a vaccine to how top-level bureaucrats reach their decisions: seven researchers from Leiden University have received a Vidi ...