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Healthy Society Event: lots of inspiration exchanged about societal wellbeing and social sciences13 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...
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch11 April 2022Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers17 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...
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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...
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New interdisciplinary research centre 'ReCNTR' to reflect on multimodal practice08 March 2022Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science), Julian Ross (Center for the Arts in Society) and Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropo...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science07 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...
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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...
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society02 February 2022Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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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...
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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...
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For long, government support for veterans was lacking24 January 2022For long, the government showed little empathy for military veterans with physical or psychological scars. This is what PhD research by Theo van den D...
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’06 January 2022The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minorit...
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‘The Afghan state has collapsed, but the democratic gains of the past 20 years are not lost’13 December 2021The international conference ‘Lessons from Afghanistan’ touched on many serious issues and raised several reasons for concern. But it also ended on a ...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn17 November 2021Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 202127 October 2021In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed b...