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New Year’s reception 2022: towards a new kind of social science 12 January 2022On 11 January 2022, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences opened the new year during a livestreamed reception. Dean Paul Wouters and Executiv...
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European Grant for Jörg Gross to explore how groups deal with social dilemmas 11 January 2022'I hope to contribute to a better understanding of social dilemmas we constantly face, like those that arise with climate change or the current pandem...
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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers 10 January 2022Five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of on average 1.5m euros...
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"Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals" nominated for PhD publication award 21 December 2021The Developmental and Educational Psychology unit nominated Jiemiao Chen's paper "Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals. The moder...
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Talent Acceleration Grant of Medical Delta for Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam 17 December 2021For the Train your Brain project, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam received the Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Grant. 'My pilot project does not focus on ...
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Anne Urai on her Veni subsidy and open science 16 December 2021Neuroscientist Anne Urai has been awarded a Veni subsidy to further develop her ideas over the coming four years on how the brain makes choices. Why d...
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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers 14 December 2021Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
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Andrew Littlejohn awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 10 November 2021Dr. Andrew Littlejohn has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The fellowship provi...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors 03 November 2021On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 27 October 2021In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021 25 October 20212021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solid...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors 14 October 2021Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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CADS alumna wins Glazen Globe for best youth geography book 12 October 2021CADS alumna Ruth Erica has won the Glazen Globe with her book The Tree with the White Leaves. This is a biennial prize for the best geography-related ...
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A Community of Practice in responsible research across Europe 05 October 2021Sarah de Rijcke has been awarded Wellcome funding to study and promote responsible research practices
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‘Family situations are never black and white’ 01 October 2021She bridges the gap between research and practice, has excellent research skills and is pleasant to work with: these words of praise were lavished on ...