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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchersThe European Research Council has awarded ERC Consolidator Grants to four researchers from Leiden. These grants of up to 2m euros will enable them to ...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’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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Peace through meditation? Femke Bakker wins grant for research on the influence of meditation on political behaviourPolitical scientist Femke Bakker (Leiden University) is going to investigate whether meditation affects political behaviour. Bakker has been awarded a...
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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural SciencesEach 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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Commissie-Van der Staaij presenteert revisie Reglement van OrdeOp 30 oktober presenteerde de Commissie tot Revisie van het Reglement van Orde, onder voorzitterschap van Kees van der Staaij (SGP), haar bevindingen ...
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Is Europe ready for the next financial crisis?With Brexit looming, stronger economic governance of the European Union is more essential than ever. It’s high time for action, says Amy Verdun, Profe...
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Who wrote the best master’s thesis in Political Science? Here's the shortlist!All master’s students in Political Science conclude their studies with a thesis, showcasing their academic skills and personal interest. For some, it ...
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Pieters Corner: Open ScienceOn 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?’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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Political party in crisis reacts like an institutionWhat does a political party do in the wake of a disastrous electoral defeat? Martijn van Nijnanten researched this and discovered that parties turn to...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from LeidenThe ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is fr...
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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 2019Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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‘The question is more important than the answer’Francesco Ragazzi loves to talk about international relations. But what makes him really happy is if his students question the discipline. This has wo...
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Femke Bakker wins 2019 Jean Blondel PhD PrizePolitical scientist Femke Bakker (Leiden University) has won the 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize. According to the European Consortium for Political Resea...
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A matter of life and death: non-state actors and the Right to Wage WarClaire Vergerio, political scientist at Leiden University, has been awarded a Veni grant by Dutch research organisation NWO. This will allow her to co...