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CWTS is participating in RIPEET, another territorial RRI project09 February 2021CWTS is has been successful in another H2020 SwafS-14 call on territorial RRI. We are participating in a Coordination and support (CSA) project, RIPEE...
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years21 October 2020Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Heste...
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Nature Comment: Research integrity: nine ways to move from talk to walk14 October 2020Research integrity is vital for good research. How to make it an inseparable part of research culture takes more than having rules and procedures in p...
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty?14 October 2020A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serio...
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Initiative for Open Abstracts launched30 September 2020CWTS is proud to be one of the founding organisations of the Initiative for Open Abstracts. This initiative calls on scholarly publishers to make thei...
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LOWI conclusion: former employee did breach scientific integrity18 September 2020On 28 July 2020, the Netherlands Board on Research Integrity (LOWI) concluded that a former employee of Leiden University breached several rules of sc...
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Five principles to preserve social trust in scientific modelling24 June 2020Experts from several disciplines have raised concerns about the use of seemingly precise models to guide policies in matters as complex as the current...
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Paul Wouters on what the Black Lives Matter-movement means for Social and Behavioural Sciences11 June 2020George Floyd's death still leads to fierce protests against police violence and racism on a daily basis in the United States and abroad. We asked Paul...
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‘I miss the fieldwork on the ships’29 May 2020The corona crisis has had a major effect on research. Sarah de Rijcke, Professor of Science and Evaluation Studies, and her group research the effects...
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Network analysis package igraph receives funding28 May 2020Networks play an important role in various studies, ranging from analysing epidemics in human populations to studying connectivity in electrical circu...
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Atlas Award for a CWTS study on research priority setting18 May 2020Tommaso Ciarli and Ismael Rafols received the Atlas Award from Elsevier for their research on research priorities and societal demands.
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Faculty prizes & New Year's speech14 January 2020At the FSW New Year’s reception 2020, the Faculty honoured prize winners Claire Vergerio, Shirley van der Maarel and Camila Espinoza Chaparro raised ...
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SUPER MoRRI Annual event 2020: RRI across Europe: Exploring the science society interface09 January 2020On January 29th, the first annual event of the SUPER MoRRI project will be held in the Lipsius building in Leiden and will be thematically organized a...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’27 November 2019Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the C...
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17 Leiden researchers on highly cited list20 November 2019Seventeen Leiden University scientists appear on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, which was announced on 19 November by Clarivate Analytics.