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The lessons we can learn from leaders of colour 26 March 2024
With diversity and inclusion, organisations too often focus only on cosmetic change. ‘Interview bias training alone is not enough’, says Distinguished...
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Kind, clever and hardworking: school reports are not without bias 16 November 2023
White girls receive significantly more positive comments from their teachers in their primary school reports than white boys and children from migrant...
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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time 04 July 2022
There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study....
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Grant for Shelley van der Veek to teach toddlers healthy eating habits 21 June 2022
Shelley van der Veek has received a LUF Gratama grant for a research project that aims to help parents teach their toddlers healthy eating habits by p...
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Spinoza and Stevin Prizes for three Leiden professors 14 October 2021
Three Leiden professors have recently been awarded the most prestigious scientific accolade in the Netherlands: Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Marc Koper have...
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Judi Mesman awarded Stevin Prize for research on upbringing and diversity 03 September 2021
What influence do children’s upbringing and education have on their world view? This is the question Professor Judi Mesman is trying to answer. For he...
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Parental role self-regulation in Western and non-Western context 22 April 2021
PhD candidate at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group Wei Li examined longitudinally the role of parents in self-regulation of yo...
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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...