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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 2019 02 September 2019
Lecturer 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’ 08 August 2019
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 Prize 01 August 2019
Political 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 War 23 July 2019
Claire Vergerio, political scientist at Leiden University, has been awarded a Veni grant by Dutch research organisation NWO. This will allow her to co...
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Political scientist Gisela Hirschmann awarded Thyssen research grant 16 July 2019
Gisela Hirschmann, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been awarded a 2-year grant of € 170.000 by the ...
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Leila Demarest receives LUF research grant 02 July 2019
Leila Demarest, Assistant Professor of African Politics at Leiden University, has recently been awarded with a Leiden University Fund research grant t...
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Leiden political scientist Tom Louwerse obtains Vidi grant for research on government-opposition cooperation in parliament 28 May 2019
Tom Louwerse, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science, has been awarded a NWO Vidi grant. This will enable him t...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers 23 May 2019
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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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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Mark Westmoreland and Francesco Ragazzi receive a Seed Grant 20 March 2019
Dr. Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) and Dr. Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science) have b...
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Rick van Well wins Thesis Prize 2018 Research Master Political Science and Public Administration 13 November 2018
Rick van Well has won the 2018 Thesis Prize of the research master’s programme Political Science and Public Administration. Offering an insight into t...
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Teba al-Samarai wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2018 12 November 2018
Teba al-Samarai has won the Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2018. Teba’s study deals with the distinction between ‘allochtoon’ and ‘autochtoon...
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Tom Louwerse awarded ORA grant for political representation research 22 October 2018
Political scientist Tom Louwerse (Leiden University) and a team of international researchers have been awarded a NWO ORA grant. They are going to inve...
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Social Science Matters: Housing 22 October 2018
Students, first-time buyers, parents with stay-at-home children, migrants in need of a house; the problems in the housing market affect many layers wi...
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New Jean Monnet seminar series: Europe and the World 16 October 2018
In view of its aim to aim to promote and strengthen teaching and research in European Studies, the Jean Monnet chair ‘Europe and the World' organises ...