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Inaugural lecture: facts and myths about resilience after childhood adversity 13 June 2022
Anne-Laura van Harmelen, professor Brain, Safety and Resilience will give her inaugural lecture ‘Resilience does not exist’ (in Dutch) on Monday 27 Ju...
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Healthy Society Event: lots of inspiration exchanged about societal wellbeing and social sciences 13 June 2022
How can social scientists contribute to a healthier society? That question was central to the Healthy Society Event on 9 June 2022, which successfully...
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Annual Report 2021 published 13 June 2022
Leiden University’s Annual Report 2021 has been published. In this report, which consists of a general section and a financial section (the financial ...
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New book reflects on power and normality 10 June 2022
Who determines what is wrong with children and how they develop? Educator and sociologist Annemieke van Drenth wrote a book about this that will be re...
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Cultural Anthropology and Healthy Society 10 June 2022
A Healthy Society is one of the main pillars of the Leiden Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences' Strategic Plan. A Healthy Society is concerned ...
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Social Science Matters: Out-of-home placement 08 June 2022
It was recently revealed that an estimated 1115 children of parents who are victims of the childcare benefits scandal were forcibly taken into out-of-...
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Serge Rombouts: ‘It is important to have attention for other people’ 08 June 2022
‘There’s so much going on, and it’s hugely interesting.’ Serge Rombouts, professor of Methods of Cognitive Neuroimaging, is describing his new positio...
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food 07 June 2022
How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karl...
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Jojanneke van der Toorn on challenges and benefits of LGBTIQ+ employee networks 07 June 2022
On 19 May 2022, Jojanneke van der Toorn and Workplace Pride organised the symposium 'LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups: Benefits, challenges and opport...
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Dissertation Prize for Developmental Psychologist Michelle Achterberg 02 June 2022
For her research on social-emotional regulation in children Michelle Achterberg on Wednesday, May 25 2022 received the Dutch Association of Developmen...
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance 31 May 2022
Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta have received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate chan...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice 31 May 2022
What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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The person behind the murderer 26 May 2022
Are all murderers calculating psychopaths with an obscene predilection for bloody chainsaws? Yes, if Hollywood is to be believed, but in the real worl...
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European Grant for Mariska Kret's Virtual Reality emotion training tool 24 May 2022
Teaching people to recognize subtle, real-world expressions will help them understand and trust others better. The aim of Mariska Kret is to develop a...
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Unlocking Diversity Awareness at FestiWell – through an Escape Room Game! 18 May 2022
A group of postdoc and PhDs at our Focus on Emotions lab organized an escape room for staff and students to increase their awareness of diversity and ...