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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world11 August 2023Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (X...
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers03 August 2023Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards off...
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda13 July 2023In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry ma...
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers06 July 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch R...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 202304 July 2023Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship30 June 2023If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer A...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers27 June 2023Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Browsing Chinese policy documents with AI: 'There is more public than you might think'23 June 2023Corona travel restrictions and increased political pressure: research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years. University le...
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NWO funding for three new humanities PhD students15 June 2023Three PhD candidates from the Faculty of Humanities have successfully applied for funding from NWO for new PhD candidates. The three upcoming research...
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DEN Award for Streaming the Past project: 'A truly innovative way to engage with new audiences'06 June 2023Back in 2021, the project Streaming the Past, an NWA funded project ran by Leiden University and the VALUE Foundation, launched to take a young audien...
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?02 June 2023As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram...
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Depot or place of honour: what to do with Nobel laureates in the museum?01 June 2023What do you do with a museum collection full of individual white Nobel laureates at a time when diversity, inclusion and teamwork reign supreme? Ad Ma...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’11 May 2023What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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MCS Scholarship for collection-oriented research: 'There can be a whole story behind something unimportant'03 May 2023Would you like to do collection-oriented research, but do not have sufficient resources? Every year, the Museums, Collections and Society (MCS) resear...