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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything’ 27 February 2023
‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting re...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ 27 February 2023
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Female Lieutenant-General on leadership: 'Figure out who you are' 27 February 2023
“You want to be a great leader? Start by figuring out who you are.” On February 2nd, Elanor Boekholt-O’Sullivan, the first female three-star general o...
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Successful 5th edition of the Negotiation Workshop 27 February 2023
How to negotiate effectively to achieve a win-win deal for your client? What is the preferred communication style?
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Website full of interactive videos to improve your lab education 27 February 2023
To better prepare students for their laboratory education, a team of education experts and students have created a collection of interactive videos. A...
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher 24 February 2023
For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee...
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Lecture series 'Europa in de Praktijk' to start again in April 2023 24 February 2023
The Europa Institute is once again organising the lecture series 'Europa in de Praktijk' (Europe in Practice). Students are offered the unique opportu...
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The biologist who wants to sound a different note in his field 23 February 2023
Hans Slabbekoorn researches animal sounds and the effect of the noise we humans make on these animals. He is also committed to making his discipline m...
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Markus Davidsen: 'We need to implement ideas that improve an entire programme' 23 February 2023
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. University lecturer Markus Davidsen is one of them. What does h...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes 23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Prime Minister gives lecture to first-year students. ‘Democracy will always be stronger than tyranny’ 22 February 2023
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine, Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, gave a guest lecture to first-year law students in the Cleveringa ...
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Turkish and Syrian students talk to Rector about possible support 22 February 2023
A group of Turkish and Syrian students from the university are raising money for victims of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Two of them met Recto...
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Want to contribute to educational innovation? Then the Comenius grant is for you 22 February 2023
Do you have an innovative idea on how to improve education, but don't know what steps to take next? The Comenius programme offers a range of grants fo...
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Leiden Governance Programme to start offering their first modules 21 February 2023
The Institute of Public Administration is launching the Leiden Governance Programme: an exclusive educational programme for experienced practitioners ...
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On exchange without leaving your student room: ECOLe teaching grant makes it possible 16 February 2023
Working from your Leiden room with students from the United States: Univeristy Lecturer Dario Fazzi’ students will soon be able to take up this challe...