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Can businesses and employers demand proof of vaccination? 09 August 2021
Can bars, gyms and travel providers refuse customers who have no proof of vaccination? And can an employer dismiss employees who are not vaccinated? R...
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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press 28 July 2021
The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s spe...
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Paul Nieuwbeerta in The Lancet on detainees’ health 20 July 2021
For the first time, research has been conducted on how the health of detained persons prior to their detention differs from that of non-detainees and ...
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Interview with Christa Tobler in de “Hofvijver” (Montesquieu Instituut) 30 June 2021
On Monday 28 June 2021, a text based on an interview with Christa Tobler appeared in the Hofvijver (Montesquieu Instituut) on the relationship between...
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Five times more Covid vaccines from a vial with skin injection 17 June 2021
Not ten but fifty Covid vaccines from one vial. This is possible if the vaccination is delivered into the skin rather than the muscle, research by int...
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CADS student contributes to SOMO research report that is being picked up by international media 02 June 2021
Doing an internship at a research organisation and contributing to a report that is subsequently picked up by the national and international media. Wh...
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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students 01 June 2021
Mathematician Oliver Nagy still vividly remembers the first time he learned about a random walk. ‘The lecturer told us to imagine a company of drunken...
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Bashir Azizi: ‘Not war or civil war, but a global civil war’ 28 May 2021
These days we do not just have wars and civil wars – more of a global civil war, says Bashir Azizi, who received a PhD in April 2020 for his thesis on...
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Capturing polarised light in the search for alien plants 18 May 2021
A new way to decipher the light from distant worlds could give us unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial photosynthesis, and maybe alien plants, fi...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Tom Barkhuysen on ruling extending access to court 22 April 2021
By a ruling of the Dutch Council of State, local residents and organisations can after all take their case to court even if they made no objection dur...
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Blog Anne Meuwese on European AI regulation 22 April 2021
Yesterday, the European Commission presented its long-anticipated proposal for an AI regulation. After the Commission had outlined the European legisl...
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Anne Meuwese and Bart Custers in Trouw on Covid apps 06 April 2021
The more people are vaccinated, the more society can slowly reopen. Technological developments, like the Covid passport and other apps, can play a rol...
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Article by Donald Weber- DIRTY PICTURES 01 April 2021
DIRTY PICTURES // 26 March 2021// Trigger, FOMU, Antwerp (BE)
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From tunnel vision towards an open view. Lessons from the North/South metro line on compensation of damages 30 March 2021
An article by Georgina Kuipers has been published this month in Dutch journal Overheid & Aansprakelijkheid (Government and Accountability). It deals w...