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Femke Bakker wins 2019 Jean Blondel PhD Prize01 August 2019Political 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 War23 July 2019Claire 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 grant16 July 2019Gisela 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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Leiden political scientist Tom Louwerse obtains Vidi grant for research on government-opposition cooperation in parliament28 May 2019Tom 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 researchers23 May 2019From 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 lecturers01 April 2019Three 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 Grant20 March 2019Dr. 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 Administration13 November 2018Rick 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 201812 November 2018Teba 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 research22 October 2018Political 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: Housing22 October 2018Students, 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 World16 October 2018In 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 ...
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Karolina Pomorska awarded Jean Monnet Chair16 October 2018
Political scientist Karolina Pomorska (Institute of Political Science, Leiden University) has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair. The aim of her chair, ...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers15 October 2018The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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Nicholas Vrousalis wins EURIAS fellowship at Aarhus University28 August 2018Political philosopher Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) has been awarded a EURIAS Fellowship at Aarhus University’s Institute for Advanced Study ...