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Two researchers from FSW receive the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Researchers Andrea Evers and Diana Suhardiman have been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant,...
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Bleda Düring investigates social inequality in Cyprus with ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Archaeologist Prof Bleda Düring has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his research on the emergence of social inequalities in the tran...
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Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
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Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions13 June 2025A KIEM grant was recently awarded to a diverse group of Leiden researchers, aiming to organise an interdisciplinary conference with the title ‘Ancient...
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NWO Open Competition grants for two projects with Leiden researchers05 June 2025Two research projects with researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition Domain Science-M progr...
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“Hope springs eternal”: Protest and social movements in the NetherlandsKIEM grant 05 June 2025Mariska Jung (FGGA), Looi van Kessel (FGW), and Jasmijn Rana (FSW) have received a KIEM grant of €10,000 together with the Institute for Social Justic...
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Carla van Baalen awarded Thorbecke MedalAward 04 June 2025Carla van Baalen was awarded the Thorbecke Medal on 4 June. She received the award in recognition of her remarkable and varied oeuvre in the field of ...
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Two NWO Mosaic 2.0 grants awarded to cultural anthropology PhDs04 June 2025Dilara Erzeybek and Oumaima Hajri, two PhD students in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology received a Mosaic 2.0 grant last week. This NWO...
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Rick Lawson President of the Netherlands Institute for Human RightsAppointment 28 May 2025Rick Lawson, Professor of European Law and former Dean of Leiden Law School, was appointed as the new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human...
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Yamila Miguel wins Pastor Schmeits Prize for astronomyAwarded 28 May 2025
The board of the Pastoor Schmeits Prize for Astronomy Foundation has awarded the Pastoor Schmeits Prize 2025 to two individuals: Yamila Miguel, affili...
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What the Leiden Teaching Prize has meant for three past winnersThe power of recognition 26 May 2025You win the Leiden Teaching Prize and suddenly all eyes are on you. Three past recipients reflect on how this student-awarded prize has changed how th...
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Kartica van der Zon appointed professor by special appointment of Family Law, Law of Persons and Juvenile Law at the University of GroningenAppointment 22 May 2025As of 1 May 2025, Professor Kartica van der Zon has been appointed professor by special appointment of Family Law, Law of Persons and Juvenile Law at ...
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New national facility for materials research at the atomic scalePHYSICS 21 May 2025Thanks to a €4.8 million grant from the Dutch Research Council, a consortium that includes four physicists from Leiden University will develop a natio...
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Rowie Stolk wins VAR-Lex Michiels prize20 May 2025On 16 May, Rowie Stolk was awarded the VAR-Lex Michiels prize for her dissertation 'Litigation interest groups in the polder: An interdisciplinary per...
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Vicente Fisher de Miranda Rodrigues awarded Cornelis Thiele Prize20 May 2025After the KHMW Brouwer Thesis Prize for History, Vicente Fischer de Miranda Rodrigues has also won the Cornelis Thiele Prize of the Dutch Society for ...