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Doggerland shortlisted for the annual EAA Book Prize31 May 2023The popular-science book 'Doggerland. Lost World under the North Sea' has been nominated for the EAA Book Prize 2023, awarded annually by the European...
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Music sensitivity parrots put to the test30 May 2023A meeting place for singing parrots. That is one of the ambitions of Michelle Spierings’ new project. With her awarded NWO XS grant, she wants to test...
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Carsten Stahn in Best Scientists ranking for 202325 May 2023Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2023 Edition of Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Law. Carst...
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Ayo Adedokun launches Future-Ready Coaching Academy23 May 2023The academy is designed to promote student well-being and to prepare students for the labour market.
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Early Career Award for Kaya Peerdeman22 May 2023Last week, Kaya Peerdeman received the SIPS Early Career Award at the fourth international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Stu...
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NWO grant for research Lotte van Dillen on how distractions influence eating and drinking behaviour17 May 2023The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 400.000 euros in funding to Lotte van Dillen, associate professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Org...
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NWO Open Competition grant for two Leiden psychologists with promising research projects16 May 2023In the third round of the NWO Open Competition SGW-XS pilot program, development psychologist Anke Klein and neuropsychologist Marit Ruitenberg each r...
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As many as 6 NWO grants for Leiden political scientists11 May 2023Recently, a new round of NWO XS grants was awarded. This grant is given to researchers with small, high-risk, innovative or promising research project...
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’11 May 2023What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has bee...
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Prize for school research project on butterfly wings10 May 2023Why are morpho butterflies blue? That is what high school students Frederique Kerstens and Koen van Griensven investigated in their high school profil...
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Subsidy for development of tools for fast and accurate rheumatic diagnosis04 May 2023Digital diagnostic tools should improve the diagnostic process of patients with musculoskeletal complaints, so that they can receive the right treatme...
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MCS Scholarship for collection-oriented research: 'There can be a whole story behind something unimportant'03 May 2023Would you like to do collection-oriented research, but do not have sufficient resources? Every year, the Museums, Collections and Society (MCS) resear...
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers02 May 2023When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20...
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Sustainability prize for research into the effects of a plant-based diet28 April 2023Paul Behrens and his team have won the Frontiers Planet Prize of half a million euros for their research into the effects of switching to a plant-base...