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To target or protect? Militias and political order in African civil wars25 July 2016Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch received an NWO Veni grant for her research on the conditions of collaboration between militias and state forces ...
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Psychologist Davood Ghara Gozli received a Veni grant15 July 2016Davood Ghara Gozli (Cognitive Psychology) has received a Veni grant. As such, he is officially recognised as a promising young scientist by science f...
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Two Leiden political scientists honoured with NWO ‘Veni’-grant14 July 2016Corinna Jentzsch and Wouter Veenendaal, two political scientists affiliated with Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, have been awarded...
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Alternative story forms: a fresh approach to historical case material07 July 2016Students taking the new bachelor’s course ‘Social Movements and Political Violence’ are about to do something new. In addition to studying textbooks a...
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Rubicon for psychologist Barbara Braams01 July 2016Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has moved to Harvard University to study social influences on adolescents’ decision making in risky and ambi...
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep27 June 2016Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research projec...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins award for publication on psychodermatology24 May 2016Sylvia van Beugen has won the Herman Musaph Literature award 2016 for the best publication about psychodermatology. Her publication describes the impo...
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Vera de Regt wins Photo Contest Antropology 201628 April 2016Bachelor student Vera de Regt received the first prize in the Anthropology Photo Contest 'Street Life' with her photo 'Girlpower in USA river' of Tanz...
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Jan Erk elected Smuts Memorial Fellow at Cambridge University28 April 2016Jan Erk, political scientist at Leiden University, has been selected as the 2016-2017 Smuts Memorial Fellow at the University of Cambridge. During his...
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Zsuzsa Bakk winner of PhD Dissertation Award11 April 2016Zsuzsa Bakk has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Classification Society for her thesis entitled 'Contr...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Bernhard Hommel31 March 2016Prof. Bernhard Hommel has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). With this grant of 2.5 million euros the cognitive ps...
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Leiden Political Science and International Studies rank highly24 March 2016Leiden University’s Political Science and International Studies programmes continue to enjoy a solid academic reputation. In the 2016 QS World Univers...
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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 201615 March 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Mui...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone19 January 2016Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that yo...
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Dies Natalis 201604 January 2016Leiden University will celebrate its 441st anniversary on Monday 8 February 2016 in the Leiden Pieterskerk. Everyone is welcome to attend or follow th...