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Young Star Maite Boden broadens her horizonAt the beginning of 2020, Maite Boden became the first student ever to receive the Young Star award. She received the award for her contribution to re...
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Master’s thesis prize 2020: the nomineesAs a Leiden University’s master’s student in Political Science you conduct independent research and report your findings to fellow academics and, who ...
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Van den Berg Thesis Prize 2020: the nomineesThe thesis... Revered by some as the crown on their studies; dreaded by others as the final stumbling block. But no matter how you look at it, the suc...
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In lockdown during fieldwork abroadImagine: you are at the end of your fieldwork in Peru and ready to go home when all flights get canceled because of Covid-19. It happened to master st...
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Jeroen Wolbers on Capacity and Network Management Dilemmas during the Corona Crisis in The NetherlandsDecision makers are faced with dilemmas as result of the corona crisis. Dr. Jeroen Wolbers, Assistant Professor Crisis Governance at the Crisis Resear...
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Ann Skelton first holder of Rotating Honorary Chair Enforcement of Children's RightsThis new rotating professorship has been established to offer renowned academics the opportunity to teach and conduct research on international childr...
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How colour-blind is the criminal justice system?Should the media refer to a criminal’s ethnicity? Law students held an online afternoon symposium on discrimination in the criminal justice system – a...
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More skills and higher grades: E-learning skills platform continues to be a successAfter a promising start, also the second pilot of the digital Brightspace skills platform is a success. Third-year bachelor students had thirty new ...
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analysis of the speech from the throne 2020: A woolly speech
This speech from the throne was a little less woolly than last year's, you might think. Gerard Breeman and Arco Timmermans know that for sure. Breeman...
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Daniel Peat Wins European Society of International Law Book Prize 2020The European Society of International Law (ESIL) awarded its 2020 Book Prize to Daniel Peat, an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the...
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‘Let knowledge flow through the neighbourhoods!’Leiden during corona, loneliness in the elderly or making the city more sustainable. Students from Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied ...
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Guest lecturing in Costa Rica from your own home: Early medieval English in Central AmericaWorking during Corona brings along various challenges but also unexpected opportunities. Thijs Porck, university lecturer medieval English at the Leid...
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No evidence for link between depression and dietEvidence that the right diet can prevent or alleviate depression is weak. In literature reviews on the subject, the authors often reach strong conclus...
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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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EP Member Samira Rafaela speaks at opening lecture Master European LawEurope is going to invest billions in those areas where COVID-19 has hit hardest, Ms Rafaela said. ‘And only if we truly show the people that this is ...