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Friendship strengthens mental resilience of adolescents with unpleasant childhood experiences 19 November 2020
As young people’s friendships improve, their mental resilience also increases. This is according to research conducted by Anne-Laura van Harmelen, Pro...
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Liza Cornet wins national final of Famelab 14 September 2020
Neurospyschologist Liza Cornet is the winner of the national final of Famelab. Famelab is an international science communication competition for young...
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‘Don’t just lump together child abuse and child neglect’ 25 May 2020
Child abuse and child neglect are often seen as one and the same problem. But it can be useful to separate the two to gain more insight into the chara...
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Fabiola Diana and Liza Cornet win FameLab Leiden pre-round 30 April 2020
The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...
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Children in court proceedings should be heard at much younger age 02 March 2020
On 2 March 2020 the report Kind in proces: van communicatie naar effectieve participatie (Children in proceedings: from communication towards effectiv...
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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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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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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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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...
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Cooperation is improving autism treatment 02 May 2018
There are effective treatments for people with autism, says Wouter Staal, professor of Autism Spectrum Disorders, in his inaugural lecture on 4 May. H...
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Visit from Prof. Kate Cain 22 November 2016
In context of Anne Helder’s defense of her doctoral thesis, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Kate Cain for a symposium last week.