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CML talents receive Stans Award 202623 April 2026CML grants three Stans Awards each year, for the best student thesis, best PhD paper, and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated st...
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Magic tricks reduce stress, pain and anxiety during vaccinations23 April 2026Injections can be a source of stress and anxiety for children. The Willem-Alexander Children’s Hospital is exploring ways to improve the experience. T...
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How should we measure progress? Rutger Hoekstra nominated for prestigious Frontiers Planet PrizeSustainability 22 April 2026Well-being economist Rutger Hoekstra has been named as one of the 26 National Champions of the international Frontiers Planet Prize. He is receiving t...
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Helen Duffy appointed to Spanish Truth CommissionAppointment 21 April 2026The Spanish government has established a truth commission to address human rights violations committed during the Spanish Civil War and the subsequent...
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PhD Supervision 2.0: Investing in social safety within the universityFunding 20 April 2026Social safety in PhD trajectories is high on the agenda both nationally and at Leiden University. In practice, however, it can be challenging to embed...
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Study explores new tobacco control measures within EU legal frameworkResearch 16 April 2026Tobacco use in the Netherlands is no longer declining and is instead increasing, raising concerns among public health experts and policymakers. Partic...
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School of Democracy 2026The basics of Democracy, Storytelling and messaging 15 April 2026
The School of Democracy is an initiative of several Dutch political foundations aimed at engaging and empowering young people who are eager to strengt...
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How sustainable is the new Dutch ‘Schijf van Vijf’ Five questions for environmental scientist Joran LammersEnvironmental sciences 14 April 2026The ‘Schijf van Vijf’ is the Dutch official dietary guideline, similar to a food pyramid, that shows what a healthy daily diet looks like. The updated...
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No ordinary sea: who governs the Strait of Hormuz?Law of the sea 14 April 2026Which law governs the Strait of Hormuz? Under international law, both Iran and the US are expected to comply with the ‘Constitution for the Oceans’. I...
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies13 April 2026“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter ...
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organisedPhD defence 13 April 2026‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young wor...
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Yung Lin receives Young Scholar Award 202613 April 2026Researcher Yung Lin received the Young Scholar Award at the annual conference of the European Association for Taiwan Studies (EATS). She obtained her ...
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Between street culture and care: young people in hybrid worldsInterview 13 April 2026Young people in forensic practice navigate between street culture, digital networks and care; worlds that are increasingly intertwined. This calls for...
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Voice of the Child: Unique film project to advance child-friendly justice09 April 2026At the end of March, the Voice of the Child conference launched three films on children’s hearings in European family law courts to support judicial t...
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When criminal law works unfairly against people in vulnerable positionsInaugural lecture on social inequality 07 April 2026Criminal law can reinforce social inequality. ‘People at the lower end of society are hit harder by criminal law in a range of different ways’, says P...