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Tackle debt with healthcare funds: researchers on a healthier society for all 16 November 2022
Technology, medical knowledge, social measures and the design of the living environment: all these needed to achieve a healthier society. In a series ...
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New student members of the Cultural Anthropology Programme Committee 14 November 2022
The new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC) are Pablo Pandocchi, Rachel Cruickshank, Emily Berube-Palsboll and Nico Lesenfants Ramos. The...
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Anne Urai and Neuromatch colleagues win prize for open science 10 November 2022
Cognitive neuroscientist Anne Urai is part of the Neuromatch Conference team. With the prize for open science, Neuromatch wants to reduce or remove ba...
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands 10 November 2022
How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Essi Pekonen and Ingmar Jansen win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2022 08 November 2022
October and November not only bring a number of proud Political Science graduates, it is also the season to determine who wrote the best bachelor’s th...
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How can we encourage responsible financial behaviour? 08 November 2022
PhD candidate Shekinah Dare researched which psychological factors contribute to responsible financial behaviour and well-being. She wants to use this...
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Film by CADS alumna Loes Moree screened at Field Recordings in Rotterdam 02 November 2022
The film MعLMIN made by Visual Ethnography alumna Loes Moree will be screened during the fourth Fieldrecordings event. Field Recordings is an annual ...
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Parents are too hard on themselves: teens more positive about their parenting 31 October 2022
Although it can be a challenge at times, parents should keep communicating with their teens. Also about how they parent. Research by developmental psy...
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’ 28 October 2022
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across...
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WARN-D: Your personal code yellow - orange - red 23 October 2022
Imagine getting a notification on your mobile phone with your personal code for impending mental health problems or even depression: yellow, orange, o...
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A new environment boosts your memory (but not for everyone) 21 October 2022
However tempting it may be, as a student, to lock yourself in your room or in favourite library nook in the days running up to an important exam, it's...
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Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems 20 October 2022
Global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments an...
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Ancois de Villiers receives PeerJ Award for Best Student Presentation 20 October 2022
Ancois de Villiers, PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, received the PeerJ Award for Best Student Prese...
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LUF grant for Neeltje Blankenstein: 'I want to study online risk behaviour of young people in its full depth' 19 October 2022
Neeltje Blankenstein receives an LUF grant to conduct research on online risk behaviour among young people. What risks do young people take online and...
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Ramsey Albers wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2022 17 October 2022
Each year, supervisors within the Institute of Political Science are asked to nominate exceptional theses for the annual Thesis Prize. This resulted i...