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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience18 March 2022A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study ...
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?17 March 2022Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious gr...
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Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe15 March 2022Across Europe, neighborhoods, schools and community centers are turned into living labs to experiment with “doing” the welfare state differently. Leid...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers15 March 2022Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on Tuesday. Two of the researchers wor...
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What drives anti-immigrant sentiment among youths in Ecuador?31 January 2022Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan...
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education26 January 2022During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural ...
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CADS student Simay Çetin wins FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 202119 January 2022Simay Çetin won the FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 with her thesis “Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexual...
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Two Cultural Anthropology students awarded Pieter de la Court Medal 202112 January 2022Claire van den Helder and Orestes Kyrgiakis won the Pieter de la Court Medal 2021. The Pieter de la Court Medal is an initiative for students by stude...
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Psychology Awards 202112 January 2022Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
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New Year’s reception 2022: towards a new kind of social science12 January 2022On 11 January 2022, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences opened the new year during a livestreamed reception. Dean Paul Wouters and Executiv...
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European Grant for Jörg Gross to explore how groups deal with social dilemmas11 January 2022'I hope to contribute to a better understanding of social dilemmas we constantly face, like those that arise with climate change or the current pandem...
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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers10 January 2022Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros...
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"Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals" nominated for PhD publication award21 December 2021The Developmental and Educational Psychology unit nominated Jiemiao Chen's paper "Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals. The moder...
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Talent Acceleration Grant of Medical Delta for Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam17 December 2021For the Train your Brain project, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam received the Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Grant. 'My pilot project does not focus on ...
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Anne Urai on her Veni subsidy and open science16 December 2021Neuroscientist Anne Urai has been awarded a Veni subsidy to further develop her ideas over the coming four years on how the brain makes choices. Why d...