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Eight researchers to travel abroad on Rubicon grant 21 June 2021
Eight young researchers from Leiden University have received a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will allow them to conduct re...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 2021 16 June 2021
The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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Frederique Visser wins Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize 2020 16 June 2021
This year, the second Hugo Weiland Thesis Prize of the Foundation for Austrian Studies has been awarded. This prize, in honour of the founder and long...
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations' 14 June 2021
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and ...
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KNAW subsidy strengthens cooperation between Leiden religious scholars and secondary school teachers 11 June 2021
Markus Altena Davidsen was 'extremely happy' when he heard that he and his colleagues had been awarded a grant from the KNAW pilot fund for science co...
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize 04 June 2021
Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children,...
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(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics project awarded 1.7 million Euros by Austrian Science Fund 03 June 2021
New research project “(Musical) Improvisation and Ethics”, recently awarded 1.7 million Euros by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)’s Young Independent ...
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Grants for journalistic projects Leiden students and lecturers 21 May 2021
Three projects affiliated with the university will receive grants from the Leids Mediafonds (Leiden Media Fund ed.). The money is to be spend on creat...
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Mattias Brand awarded Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Award 2021 20 May 2021
Mattias Brand’s dissertation, The Manichaeans of Kellis: Religion, Community, and Everyday Life (Leiden, 2019) has been selected for one of the five p...
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Sarah Cramsey awarded a KNAW Early Career Partnership 20 May 2021
Dr. Sarah Cramsey, University Lecturer Judaism & Diaspora Studies, has been awarded an Early Career Partnership by the KNAW.
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NWO grant for four humanities projects 18 May 2021
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has granted four grants to Leiden humanities scholars. They get to spend this money on research on a topic of their c...
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NIAS fellowship for Mike Schmidli 17 May 2021
Mike Schmidli has been awarded a fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). From September 2021, he will spend 5 months at NIA...
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KNAW subsidy for the project ‘Religious studies in secondary education' 12 May 2021
Markus Altena Davidsen and colleagues Michaël van der Meer, Maurits Berger and Kim Beerden received a subsidy from the KNAW-Pilotfund. They will use t...
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Royal honour for Korrie Korevaart 26 April 2021
Korrie Korevaart, a former director and lecturer in Dutch language and culture at Leiden University, has been made a member of the Order of Orange-Nas...
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ERC Advanced Grant for six Leiden researchers 22 April 2021
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established princip...