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Marja Spierenburg about the importance of the EuroScience Open Forum 07 July 2022
From Wednesday 13 July 2022, for four days, Leiden is at the epicentre of European science, as it hosts Europe's largest interdisciplinary conference,...
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information 05 July 2022
“Your roommate tests positive for COVID but you don’t have any symptoms and haven’t been in close proximity with them, do you still go out with friend...
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Professor Marja Spierenburg in the House of Representatives of The Netherlands 20 June 2022
On 15 June 2022 Professor Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood Marja Spierenburg was one of the invited speakers at the round table in the Ho...
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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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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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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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Nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean 16 May 2022
A sense of security plays an important role in the decision to contribute to nature conservation. Stacey Mac Donald conducted four years of research o...
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Include local communities in policymaking 09 May 2022
Forest degradation has limited the Orang Rimba's access to forest resources. As a result, they've had to make significant cultural modifications and a...
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Erik de Maaker and team awarded grant for research on the impact of ‘green farming’ 20 April 2022
Charisma K. Lepcha (PI, Sikkim University), Pradyut Guha (co-PI, Sikkim University), Rajib Sutradhar (co-PI, Christ University Bangalore) and Erik de ...
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Speckmann Awards 2022 for Simay Çetin, Nova Folkersma, Marta Mas Castella, Iris Molenaar and Emma van der Plas 19 April 2022
Alumna Simay Çetin received the award for her Master thesis: ‘Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexuality am...
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Looking ahead to the next ten years at LDE anniversary celebration 13 April 2022
The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2022. At the ‘The Next Ten Years’ anniversary celebration...
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Professor Carola Hein appointed in Leiden and Rotterdam: 'Making new connections for a sustainable future' 10 April 2022
Carola Hein, Professor of History of Architecture and Urban Planning TU Delft, has been affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and De...
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What works in social work? Large-scale research into social resilience policy interventions 03 April 2022
The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the N...
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Natashe Lemos Dekker awarded Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 24 March 2022
Natashe Lemos Dekker has been awarded the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 2021. This travel grant for female postdocs allows her to spend a period...