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Juan Masullo receives APSA Alexander George Best Article Award16 September 2025Assistant Professor Juan Masullo of the Institute of Political Science has been awarded the 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award for his work on i...
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Podcast: Self-Love Beyond the Social Media Hype15 September 2025Bubble baths and face masks: that’s what we often see on social media when discussing self-love. However, is this a true reflection of what self-love ...
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Toddlers, apes and Japanese people helped reveal how we expressEmotions 14 September 2025An orangutan will rarely burst out in laughter when watching a video of another orangutan doing the same. A toddler will do so more than an adult, whi...
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How do you decide on the future of a child placed in care?Research project 12 September 2025When a child is placed in care, the assumption is always that the child can return home again. But there are still many questions about how this proce...
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Understanding far-right communities on alternative platforms: Jonathan Collins on his PhD researchPhD dissertation 12 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Jonathan Collins will defend his dissertation A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the ...
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbersPhD dissertation 11 September 2025On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt ...
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Managing chronic pain? ‘With a data driven approach you can tailor treatment to the individual’Chronic pain 05 September 2025Exercising less, skipping parties and struggling at work: the expectation of chronic pain and itching can lead to avoidance behaviour. But this is by ...
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For the first time, scientists map brain activity across the entire mouse brainBrain research 03 September 2025Over a period of seven years, researchers from the International Brain Laboratory mapped 279 brain regions at the cellular level. Their findings are n...
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contextsPolitical Theorist Tom Theuns’ new collaborative monograph The Sciences of the Democracies 26 August 2025A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of ...
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Katharina Natter receives IMR Book Review Award26 August 2025Katharina Natter of the Institute of Political Science has been awarded the 2025 IMR Book Review Award for her book on migration politics in Morocco 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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Translating medical anthropological academic insights to policy recommendations24 July 2025How do we balance policy critique with constructive policy recommendations? How do we navigate power relations between policy makers and (disadvantage...
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Does your smartwatch say you’re stressed? It may often be wrong23 July 2025Consumer grade smartwatches may not be as accurate as promised when measuring tiredness or stress. That is the conclusion of researchers Björn Siepe a...
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LDE GMD Seed Grant for research on diasporic aid and care in crises21 July 2025Cultural Anthropologists of Leiden University and Development studies researchers of ISS-EUR have been awarded funding to explore how diaspora communi...
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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 ...