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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers14 December 2021Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
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Andrew Littlejohn awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship10 November 2021Dr. Andrew Littlejohn has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The fellowship provi...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors03 November 2021On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 202127 October 2021In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 202125 October 20212021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solid...
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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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CADS alumna wins Glazen Globe for best youth geography book12 October 2021CADS alumna Ruth Erica has won the Glazen Globe with her book The Tree with the White Leaves. This is a biennial prize for the best geography-related ...
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A Community of Practice in responsible research across Europe05 October 2021Sarah de Rijcke has been awarded Wellcome funding to study and promote responsible research practices
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‘Family situations are never black and white’01 October 2021She bridges the gap between research and practice, has excellent research skills and is pleasant to work with: these words of praise were lavished on ...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2021: the nominees30 September 2021The thesis is the crown on the work of our bachelor students. As authors, they show their knowledge of the subject that they have chosen. They demonst...
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‘All the members of the Young Academy Leiden have a strong sense of responsibility'21 September 2021The Young Academy Leiden (YAL) acquired six new members on 1 September. We talked to the new and former chair of this platform for young academics abo...
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees13 September 2021As a Leiden University’s master’s student in Political Science you conduct independent research and report your findings to fellow academics and, who ...
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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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Network analysis library igraph receives two grants02 September 2021igraph, an important open source network analysis library, will receive two grants of $400,000 (approximately €340,000) over the course of the next tw...
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LEF grant for Semiha Aydin to pilot social anxiety treatment06 August 2021Semiha Aydin is one of the three first-generation researchers who received a grant from the Leiden Empowerment Fund to stimulate their scientific career.