News
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'An international classroom is about opening up to different voices' 26 March 2024
There is a lot of discussion about international students and Dutch universities. The Cultural Anthropology and Sociology of Development programme is ...
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Joop van Holsteyn appointed as member of the Dutch Electoral Council 26 March 2024
Joop van Holsteyn has been appointed as member of the Dutch Electoral Council (Kiesraad). As of 1 april 2024 the Professor in Political Behaviour and ...
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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers 25 March 2024
Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022: Jasmijn Rana with Sec...
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’ 25 March 2024
This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks 21 March 2024
The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students...
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Rhuari'luana Hankinson-Kempf receives Pieter de la Court medal 2023 13 March 2024
The Pieter de la Court Medal is awarded annually by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences for an initiative by a student or group of students...
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Fieldwork NL on au pairs and thesis on public policy win Speckmann Awards 2024 12 March 2024
‘The care of an au pair' is chosen as the best Fieldwork NL report and 'The unruly reality of a new government' as the best master's thesis. Lila van ...
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Six questions about the new minor ‘The (un)just society’ 12 March 2024
The new minor ‘The (un)just society’ will start in September 2024. This interdisciplinary minor will provide an in-depth and applied view of social ju...
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Teaching assistants create space in packed schedules: ‘Finally, I have time to review the course content’ 04 March 2024
In this 'Educatips' column, psychology teachers share their key insights about work. This time: course coordinator Evelien Broekhof received support f...
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research 20 February 2024
In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive b...
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Dehumanising: how students reject candidate housemates 08 February 2024
Being rejected always hurts, but so does having to reject someone. Social psychologists have discovered that at interviews to select suitable housemat...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research 05 February 2024
Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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Students with a connection to Israel or Palestine together in a support group 18 January 2024
Psychology lecturer Sepideh Saadat is leading a support group for students affected by the Israel-Hamas war. In four sessions she brings together stud...
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Thesis on research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma wins FSW thesis prize 2023 17 January 2024
With research on the intergenerational transmission of trauma, Tamara Compagner (right) has won the FSW Thesis Prize 2023. The thesis was written as p...
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy 17 January 2024
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, th...