News
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More focus on skateboarders in academic discourse 23 November 2021
There are approximately 60 million skateboarders worldwide. And yet in the academic world, this culture is not always looked upon seriously. Visual an...
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Cancer patients want a doctor who shows empathy and doesn’t make vague promises 22 November 2021
Patients with incurable cancer want their oncologist to be clear but to show empathy too. They find hard and vague communication harmful. These are th...
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Medical Delta professor Andrea Evers: ‘I find it important to look for new ways’ 18 November 2021
Prof. Andrea Evers is a health psychologist who studies the role of behavioural factors in health and disease. As a Medical Delta Professor, she is no...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Navigating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork 15 November 2021
On Friday the 5th of November, members of the CADS Institute engaged in a lively roundtable lunch discussion on navigating boundaries in ethnographic ...
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Autistic children develop social-emotional skills with other children 10 November 2021
Autistic children have indeed potential: most of their emotional abilities improve with age, concludes developmental psychologist Boya Li in her resea...
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Andrew Littlejohn awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 10 November 2021
Dr. Andrew Littlejohn has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The fellowship provi...
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Encouraging secondary school students to think and talk about sustainability and policy 07 November 2021
Anne Veens is on a mission. She wants secondary school students to get acquainted with anthropology, and think about the value it can have in the deve...
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Perspective for people with borderline personality disorder 05 November 2021
‘Raising awareness of the disorder is crucial since borderline personality disorder (BPD) still faces considerable stigma ’, says Anne Krause-Utz (Cli...
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Visit the virtual Gold Matters exhibition 03 November 2021
The virtual Exhibition Gold Matters is now live and can be explored online. This exhibition is the result of collaborations between artists, members o...
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Five Leiden professors installed as Medical Delta professors 03 November 2021
On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology...
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‘Heart rate and skin conductance predict romantic attraction’ 02 November 2021
Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some ...
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Caught in the middle? Beer and policy in a Leiden neighbourhood 01 November 2021
For my Policy in Practice research project, Elise van Dansik engaged with a problem that Leiden ‘Social Domain’ policy officers saw themselves confron...
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The field is on your doorstep: the challenges of policy research in Leiden 01 November 2021
Conducting fieldwork against a backdrop of public policy interests and professional reputations in your own place of residence adds a whole new level ...
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‘Colourblind parenting is a myth’ 01 November 2021
We should mention differences in skin colour to our children because only then can we talk openly about prejudice and racism – and how to prevent them...