News
-
Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2022: the nominees 04 October 2022Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is c...
-
Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2022: the nominees 29 September 2022The thesis is the Grand Finale for our bachelor students. On their way to the finish, they have gathered considerable knowledge and insights, and acqu...
-
Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
-
‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy 14 June 2022The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brusse...
-
Juan Masullo Jimenez appointed as APSA research methods journal co-editor 14 June 2022Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (Oxford University) and Juan Masullo Jimenez (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) are the new editors of Quali...
-
Healthy Society Event: lots of inspiration exchanged about societal wellbeing and social sciences 13 June 2022How can social scientists contribute to a healthier society? That question was central to the Healthy Society Event on 9 June 2022, which successfully...
-
‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch 11 April 2022Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center...
-
ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers 17 March 2022Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
-
Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion? 17 March 2022Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious gr...
-
New interdisciplinary research centre 'ReCNTR' to reflect on multimodal practice 08 March 2022Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science), Julian Ross (Center for the Arts in Society) and Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropo...
-
Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science 07 March 2022What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
-
Can Russia be stopped? 14 February 2022Tensions are rising between Russia and the West. Can an invasion of Ukraine and an international war be avoided? Political scientist and Russia expert...
-
Social Science Matters: The surveillance society 02 February 2022Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
-
What drives anti-immigrant sentiment among youths in Ecuador? 31 January 2022Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan...
-
New professor calls for more research with a ‘global lens’ 31 January 2022Jan Aart Scholte is the first professor on the new Leiden interdisciplinary programme, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He researches...