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Lou Boshart, Xiaohui Liu, and Sarah Noordeloos winners of the Metje Postma AwardsMetje Postma Awards 20 October 2025Lou Boshart won the Excellence in Visual & Multimodal Ethnography Thesis Prize for his film ‘Layers of Confidence’. Lou produced a multimodal thesis a...
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Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens on The Conversation on what schools can learn from skate cultureThe Conversation 29 July 2025Skateboarding philosophy can transform education in numerous ways. Together with colleagues, Sander researched the value of skateboarding in education...
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Anthropology students win Speckmann Prize for LGBTQ+ community care researchSpeckmann Prize 16 July 2025Second-year Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students Sonja Weckroth, Leonardo Costa, and Ilse Zwart have been awarded the prestigious ...
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Anthropology students explore how buildings shape student life at MBORijnlandInterview 26 May 2025In the second-year course Fieldwork NL, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students conduct their own full-scale anthropological research...
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Bestselling author Jeroen Windmeijer puts Leiden on the map with his thrillersAlumnus interview 09 May 2025It’s only been six years since bestselling author Jeroen Windmeijer (56) decided to become a full-time writer. Since then, he’s put Leiden and the uni...
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In the spotlight: students cultural anthropology conduct research on Tiny Houses22 April 2025Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students have conducted research into the experiences and motivations of people moving into a Tiny Hou...
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Thesis on homeless people's gendered experiences wins FSW Thesis Prize 202407 February 2025With her thesis 'Gendered Experiences and Homelessness Trajectories: An Anthropological Fieldwork Study in The Hague, the Netherlands', Elleke Schreur...
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Why cultural anthropology and development sociology?18 November 2024If you've ever wondered why people behave the way they do or how societies work, studying cultural anthropology and development sociology could be for...
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Mark Lindenberg and Ieke van Dam winners of the Metje Postma Awards23 October 2024'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto...
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Working towards a healthier society: learn all about it in this new minor08 April 2024Why are health problems such as loneliness and obesity so persistent? What causes them to occur more frequently in some neighbourhoods than others? An...
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Anthropologist working for the government01 April 2024Saskia van Otterloo works as a policy advisor on climate adaptation at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. She gra...
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'An international classroom is about opening up to different voices'26 March 2024There is a lot of discussion about international students and Dutch universities. The Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Development programme is ...
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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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Thesis on public policy in vulnerable neighbourhoods wins FSW thesis prize 202315 January 2024With 'The unruly reality of a new government: Navigating between networks and serving in a 'vulnerable' neighbourhood', Mony Klaus has won the FSW The...
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Meet the new members of the Cultural Anthropology OLC 2023-202425 September 2023Liselotta Jahnke, Jason Irwin, Rachel Cruickshank and Paula Kovač are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). This committee advises...