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Political Scientist Christina Toenshoff Wins Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award13 June 2024Christina Toenshoff has been awarded the Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award for her PhD dissertation on corporate climate lobbying. The Leiden Politica...
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers11 June 2024Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project withi...
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How democratic is our kingdom? New ministry chair for Leiden political scientist24 May 2024When we talk about the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is not just about the Netherlands. On the contrary: our Kingdom consists of no less than four co...
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Floor van Meer receives news Trial & Error Award28 March 2024Psychologist Floor van Meer won the first Trial & Error Award for her research on the effect of being distracted while eating on eating behavior. This...
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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers25 March 2024Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022: Jasmijn Rana with Sec...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers25 March 2024The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Fieldwork NL on au pairs and thesis on public policy win Speckmann Awards 202412 March 2024‘The care of an au pair' is chosen as the best Fieldwork NL report and 'The unruly reality of a new government' as the best master's thesis. Lila van ...
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research20 February 2024In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive b...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research05 February 2024Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy17 January 2024Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...
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Who are the winners of the Psychology Prizes of 2023?20 December 2023Psychology teacher of the year is Marc Molendijk. The Master Thesis Awards are for Kim Houwaart and Linda Bomm. Hans van Lennep wins the PhD Publicati...
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Carolien Rieffe honoured with a NWO grant for research project on loneliness18 December 2023'Building 4 Belonging' is the title of Carolien Rieffe's honoured NWO proposal for research on loneliness. Psychologist Rieffe is especially proud of ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta to study transnational Islamic charitable networks13 December 2023Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangle...
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Leiden political scientists Claire Vergerio and Kathleen Brown win awards06 December 2023Two researchers from the Institute of Political Science were recently awarded prizes. Claire Vergerio received the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for he...
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Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund (D//F) for John Boy to explore the shifting terrain of free and open source software05 December 2023With a grant from the Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund D//F, John Boy and members of the d12n research cluster will explore new ways critical tech...