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High school students from Haarlem visit Babylab Leiden 04 February 2020
Students from the Coornhert Lyceum from Haarlem visited the Babylab Leiden together with their teacher Roos Bannenberg. The 5-VWO students follow modu...
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'Art therapy effective in treating anxiety in women' 21 January 2020
On 22 January, Annemarie Madani-Abbing will defend her dissertation 'Art therapy and anxiety' regarding her research into the effectiveness of anthrop...
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Faculty prizes & New Year's speech 14 January 2020
At 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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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’ 27 November 2019
Students, 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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Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks 13 November 2019
Textbooks in the Netherlands contain significantly fewer female than male characters and relatively few characters from a non-Western background. They...
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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 07 November 2019
Each year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited t...
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Big and small talk at the Young Academy Lunch 31 October 2019
Bring together young academics from all disciplines: that, in a nutshell, is the mission of Young Academy Leiden. And this fledgling organisation is a...
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Social Science Matters: Open Science 12 September 2019
On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open sc...
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‘What is the value of the social sciences?’ 09 September 2019
At the Faculty's opening of the 2019-2020 academic year, the focus lay not just on the vision for the future of the social sciences, and the opening o...
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School's out! But not for head teachers 10 July 2019
Many head teachers will have to try and fill staffing gaps this summer. Assistant Professor Kim Stroet, who is researching pupil motivation, is worrie...
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Municipality and University join forces to help children with behavioural problems 20 June 2019
A Preventive Intervention Team that investigates children with behavioural problems and trains their social skills in order to prevent school dropout ...
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Comenius grants for three Leiden lecturers 01 April 2019
Three lecturers from Leiden University have each been awarded a €50,000 Comenius Teaching Fellows grant to implement an educational innovation project...
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Part-time silence: children with selective mutism 11 September 2018
Livia, aged 7, was in class four. She loved to chat and was good at reading aloud. At least, at home. At school she never read aloud and she hadn't ...
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Effect of peer feedback on academic writing 24 August 2018
Feedback from fellow students on academic writing is as informative as that of teachers. That is one of the findings in Bart Huisman's (ICLON) dissert...
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LUBEC treatment centre: bridge between support and research 11 June 2018
From anxiety disorders to an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. In the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC) children and adults receiv...