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Femke Bakker wins 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize 01 August 2019
Political scientist Femke Bakker (Leiden University) has won the 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize. According to the European Consortium for Political Resea...
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A matter of life and death: non-state actors and the Right to Wage War 23 July 2019
Claire Vergerio, political scientist at Leiden University, has been awarded a Veni grant by Dutch research organisation NWO. This will allow her to co...
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers 16 July 2019
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden Universit...
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Political scientist Gisela Hirschmann awarded Thyssen research grant 16 July 2019
Gisela Hirschmann, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been awarded a 2-year grant of € 170.000 by the ...
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Leila Demarest receives LUF research grant 02 July 2019
Leila Demarest, Assistant Professor of African Politics at Leiden University, has recently been awarded with a Leiden University Fund research grant t...
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Andrea Evers wins Stevin Prize for knowledge exchange and impact 21 June 2019
Andrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University, has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific awar...
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Wilco van Dijk NIAS-KNAW fellow 28 May 2019
Wilco van Dijk has been awarded a NIAS Individual Fellowship, which allow researchers to work on a project of their own choosing for a 5- or 10-month ...
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Leiden political scientist Tom Louwerse obtains Vidi grant for research on government-opposition cooperation in parliament 28 May 2019
Tom Louwerse, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been awarded a NWO Vidi grant. This will enable him t...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers 23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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Leiden University's nominees New Scientist science talent 29 April 2019
Mathematician Stéphanie van der Pas and psychologist Sandy Overgaauw have been nominated for the New Scientist science talent competition, a prize for...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW 23 April 2019
Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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Mark Westmoreland and Francesco Ragazzi receive a Seed Grant 20 March 2019
Dr. Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) and Dr. Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science) have b...
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ZonMw Medical Inspirator Prize for research ‘Lyme paralyses lives’ 18 March 2019
Together with patient representatives, clinician-researchers from Radboucumc (Internal Medicine) Amsterdam UMC and researchers from Leiden University ...
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Bachelor's and Master's Speckmann Awards 2019 13 March 2019
Bachelor's students Larissa van Beckhoven, Eeke Brussee and Mirjam de Haan were granted the Speckmann award for their Fieldwork NL report ‘Een Tastba...
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds nominated for the Woman in the Media Award - You Go Girl 31 January 2019
Vote now for our psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds to win the Woman in the Media Award 2018 - You Go Girl for her important work standing up for science ...