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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers 11 July 2022
Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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'The effect of the online world on adolescents' 06 July 2022
How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with incr...
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Cheating graphs: a lesson in statistics without arithmetic 24 June 2022
Missing legends, illogical connections or three-dimensional graphs. There are many ways in which data can deceive. Five students took up the fight aga...
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The impact of climate change on groups of people 14 June 2022
The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will p...
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Healthy Society Event: lots of inspiration exchanged about societal wellbeing and social sciences 13 June 2022
How 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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Social Science Matters: Out-of-home placement 08 June 2022
It was recently revealed that an estimated 1115 children of parents who are victims of the childcare benefits scandal were forcibly taken into out-of-...
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Jojanneke van der Toorn on challenges and benefits of LGBTIQ+ employee networks 07 June 2022
On 19 May 2022, Jojanneke van der Toorn and Workplace Pride organised the symposium 'LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups: Benefits, challenges and opport...
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Video series: Collaboration with China in daily practice 31 May 2022
What are the benefits for us of collaboration with Chinese partners? What sparks off Leiden researchers' interest in collaborating with colleagues in ...
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood on Day of Empathy 04 May 2022
The tuktuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. In the town center of Oegstgeest, the Empathy Tea...
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers 03 May 2022
Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an ed...
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Gravitation grant for research into growing up successfully 02 May 2022
How can young people grow up successfully and contribute to the present and future society? The consortium that is researching this will receive 22 mi...
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Huge advances could be made in the treatment of patients with childhood trauma 21 April 2022
There’s a lot that goes wrong in the treatment of patients with PTSD caused by childhood trauma. Endowed professor Maartje Schoorl wants to resolve th...
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain 19 April 2022
It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent bra...
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Researchers recreate 17th-century perfume by Constantijn Huygens 07 April 2022
A team of researchers from Young Academy and the Huygens ING/NL Lab has brought a three-century-old fragrance to life based on a recipe by Constantijn...
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Knowledge to the neighbourhood about the placebo effect 05 April 2022
The tuk-tuk of the European City Of Science Leiden 2022 sent science on its way to the neighbourhood. On the Vijf Meiplein in Leiden, Andrea Evers' pl...