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Parenting choices and parenting styles important in transmission of extremist views within families 28 June 2024Do children growing up in a jihadist or right-wing extremist household develop the same extremist views as their parents? That depends in part on broa...
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Second EU Talks?! event: panel discussion on sustainable agriculture 26 June 2024On 21 June 2024, the student-based initiative EU Talks?! was delighted to host its second event in the form of a panel discussion entitled 'Sustainabl...
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Kiem initiative culminates in plan to apply for larger grant 26 June 2024The interdisciplinary Kiem project ‘Violence as a Population Health Problem’ has resulted in a plan to apply for a large, yet-to-be-decided research g...
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‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’ 21 June 2024Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to ...
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Minister Ollongren impresses with personal speech: 'Our strongest weapons are people' 20 June 2024After 2.5 years as defence minister, it is time for Kajsa Ollongren to hand over the baton. In front of a packed audience, she gave her farewell speec...
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Opinion: Renaming ministries plays crucial role in shaping political agenda 14 June 2024Three new ministries have been formed in the Netherlands: Asylum and Migration, Housing and Spatial Planning & Climate and Green Growth. Of course, th...
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The number of threats is increasing. But is the Netherlands less safe? 11 June 2024Explosions at people’s homes, gangland killings and online threats: if you follow the news, it may seem as though threat levels in the Netherlands are...
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers 11 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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A fulltime job and a ten for your master’s thesis: ‘I thought they were joking’ 11 June 2024After working full-time for twenty-four years, Wendy Tonks decided to enrol in the executive master's in Cyber Security. She now proudly reflects on h...
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Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa 11 June 2024Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African k...
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Public Administration students write consultancy report for municipality The Hague 10 June 2024How do you transition from research to advising an organisation? A new twist on the first-year public administration course ‘Integrative project: the ...
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’ 10 June 2024The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the...
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Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’ 05 June 2024They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days ...
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Experiment in Leiden SSH labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head 04 June 2024You would normally not see public administration experts and water authority officials in a laboratory, let alone together. This is changing now, spec...
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FGGA students look back: ‘My life has never been busier, but I would not change it’ 03 June 2024It is the final stretch for the students of FGGA. Summer is approaching and they are working hard to complete everything before the summer holidays. W...