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ERC Starting Grants for five young Leiden researchers 10 January 2022
Five 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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Honorary doctorate for anthropologist Rosemary Joyce 10 January 2022
American anthropologist Rosemary Joyce will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on its Dies Natalis on 8 February. Joyce has deliv...
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’ 06 January 2022
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minorit...
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"Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals" nominated for PhD publication award 21 December 2021
The Developmental and Educational Psychology unit nominated Jiemiao Chen's paper "Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals. The moder...
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Why we always choose the same songs for the Top 2000 20 December 2021
As the year draws to a close, many music lovers are looking forward to the Top 2000. How high is their favourite song and who is number one? But the l...
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Andrew Littlejohn in podcast Talking Humanitarianism 20 December 2021
In the episode 'Intersecting vulnerabilities of humanitarian disasters' of the 'Talking Humanitarianism' podcast, Andrew Littlejohn talks with host Ek...
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Talent Acceleration Grant of Medical Delta for Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam 17 December 2021
For 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 2021
Neuroscientist 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 2021
Ten 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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Talk and debate: how do we prevent science from harming the environment? 14 December 2021
Sustainability researchers can play an important role in the energy transition. But what if their partners are not (yet) sustainable and science itsel...
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‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’ 13 December 2021
The international conference ‘Lessons from Afghanistan’ touched on many serious issues and raised several reasons for concern. But it also ended on a ...
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Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network created 10 December 2021
Last week, the 'Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network' was created, based on the network event 'Leiden Anthropology of and in Asia' on 8 December 2021. ...
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New Professor Hanneke Hulst is a team player 07 December 2021
Hanneke Hulst has held the new Leiden chair in Neuropsychology in Health and Disease since 1 September. From 1 January she will also be chair of the H...
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Recap of the 2021 Anthropoplogy CADS PhD Conference 06 December 2021
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opp...
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Giving makes you happy 03 December 2021
Receiving a gift is nice, but giving a present also makes you happy. Development psychologist Mara van der Meulen former member of the Leiden Consorti...