News
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention 08 September 2023
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material show...
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ERC Starting Grants for seven Leiden researchers 05 September 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. This will enable them to start their own project, build their resear...
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Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like? 05 September 2023
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archive...
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit' 01 September 2023
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Dario Fazzi becomes professor by special appointment: ‘We live in an era of tremendous ecological challenges’ 30 August 2023
Historian Dario Fazzi is the new professor by special appointment at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), a strategic partner of the F...
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Leiden Teaching Prize nominee 2023: ‘Every lesson somebody says something I never thought of’ 28 August 2023
Two years ago, university lecturer Kirsty Rolfe was nominated for the Faculty Teaching Prize. Now she is in the running for the university equivalent....
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As old as the road to Rome: 'Fake news was already to be found in ancient times' 21 August 2023
Fake news a new phenomenon? Not according to Rens Tacoma and Indira Huliselan. In an NWO project, the associate professor and PhD student will delve i...
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Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world 11 August 2023
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (X...
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers 03 August 2023
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards off...
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda 13 July 2023
In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry ma...
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers 06 July 2023
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch R...
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These are the nominees for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023 04 July 2023
Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship 30 June 2023
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer A...
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Four Comenius teaching awards for Leiden lecturers 27 June 2023
Two lecturers from Leiden University have received a Comenius teaching award of 100,000 euros as part of the Senior Fellows programme. And a further t...
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Browsing Chinese policy documents with AI: 'There is more public than you might think' 23 June 2023
Corona travel restrictions and increased political pressure: research into China has become considerably more difficult in recent years. University le...