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Pascal Haazebroek and Kirsten Buitelaar on lecturers and students new style 10 May 2022
‘You’re in it together,’ says Pascal Haazebroek, Director of Studies of Psychology. ‘You have an influence on your education; you’re part of a univers...
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Stimulating the gut–brain nerve can influence emotion 10 May 2022
Stimulating the vagus nerve, which provides a direct link between the gut and brain, makes people pay less attention to sad facial expressions. This r...
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Owada Chair should bring together nations, cultures and individuals 09 May 2022
Dominique Moïsi, a professor at King’s College London, will be the first holder of the Owada chair. ‘In the present international context of polarisat...
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Include local communities in policymaking 09 May 2022
Forest degradation has limited the Orang Rimba's access to forest resources. As a result, they've had to make significant cultural modifications and a...
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Fact sheet on placement of children in care 06 May 2022
At the request of the Dutch Parliament, Professor Marielle Bruning, Dr Kartica van der Zon (Dept. of Child Law), Professor Lenneke Alink and Dr Sabine...
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood on Day of Empathy 04 May 2022
The tuktuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. In the town center of Oegstgeest, the Empathy Tea...
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers 03 May 2022
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an ed...
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Gravitation grant for research into growing up successfully 02 May 2022
How can young people grow up successfully and contribute to the present and future society? The consortium that is researching this will receive 22 mi...
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Young social scientists network away during the Young Academic Lunch 25 April 2022
Young Academy Leiden wants to bring together young academics. After all, it is not that easy in practice to meet peers outside your field. With inspir...
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Registration open new minor Violence Studies 22 April 2022
In the academic year 2022-2023 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer a new minor for students who are interested i...
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Jam-packed class rooms and plenty of enthusiasm at Campus The Hague Career Event 21 April 2022
Thinking about the next step in your career, networking, preparing for the labour market or possibly meeting your future employer. Over 400 students a...
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Huge advances could be made in the treatment of patients with childhood trauma 21 April 2022
There’s a lot that goes wrong in the treatment of patients with PTSD caused by childhood trauma. Endowed professor Maartje Schoorl wants to resolve th...
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Erik de Maaker and team awarded grant for research on the impact of ‘green farming’ 20 April 2022
Charisma K. Lepcha (PI, Sikkim University), Pradyut Guha (co-PI, Sikkim University), Rajib Sutradhar (co-PI, Christ University Bangalore) and Erik de ...
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Speckmann Awards 2022 for Simay Çetin, Nova Folkersma, Marta Mas Castella, Iris Molenaar and Emma van der Plas 19 April 2022
Alumna Simay Çetin received the award for her Master thesis: ‘Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexuality am...
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain 19 April 2022
It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent bra...