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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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Henk Dekker Award for Marc Cleiren20 December 2018Associate Professor Dr. Marc Cleiren (Personal & Professional Development - Honours College FSW) has received the inter-university (Leiden University ...
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Rick van Well wins Thesis Prize 2018 Research Master Political Science and Public Administration13 November 2018Rick van Well has won the 2018 Thesis Prize of the research master’s programme Political Science and Public Administration. Offering an insight into t...
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Teba al-Samarai wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 201812 November 2018Teba al-Samarai has won the Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2018. Teba’s study deals with the distinction between ‘allochtoon’ and ‘autochtoon...
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Lotte van Dillen starts the European collaborative project Work Hard, Play Hard30 October 2018Lotte van Dillen has been awarded a NWO funding for a research project in collaboration with Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Cologne and Henk v...
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Tom Louwerse awarded ORA grant for political representation research22 October 2018Political scientist Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) and a team of international researchers have been awarded a NWO ORA grant. They are going to inve...
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Karolina Pomorska awarded Jean Monnet Chair16 October 2018Political scientist Karolina Pomorska (Institute of Political Science, Leiden University) has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair. The aim of her chair, ...
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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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Carsten de Dreu receives Spinoza Prize12 September 2018Leiden psychologist Carsten de Dreu was presented with the Spinoza Prize by Education Minister Van Engelshoven on 12 September. The award of 2.5 milli...
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Winnie Gebhardt receives Honorary Fellowship04 September 2018Health psychologist Winnie Gebhardt has been appointed as Honorary Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) in recognition of her excep...
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Nicholas Vrousalis wins EURIAS fellowship at Aarhus University28 August 2018Political philosopher Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) has been awarded a EURIAS Fellowship at Aarhus University’s Institute for Advanced Study ...
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Rebekah Tromble to lead Twitter-funded research team on online discussions26 July 2018In the context of growing political polarisation, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, how can Twitter assess an...
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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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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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Making Facebook data available to researchers16 July 2018Political scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) has been appointed as an academic advisor to the Social Science One research commission. She w...