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Skate culture embraced by Olympic Games is now visible in the city 22 July 2024
The skateboarding world was highly enthusiastic about the participation of skaters in the Olympic Games in 2021, although there was also a lot of oppo...
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Anthropological Research Opportunities for Masters Students in Ghana and Morocco 19 July 2024
Costanza Franceschini is working on the Sea-ing Africa project as a project coordinator for Masters students who will be conducting research in Ghana ...
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Political Scientist Matthew Longo wins Orwell Prize for his book 18 July 2024
The latest book by political scientist Matthew Longo came out this spring: 'The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain'. In a...
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Grant worth millions for research on the socio-economic impact of hydrogen transition 17 July 2024
A consortium including economists, psychologists and public administration scholars from Leiden University will study public acceptance of the hydroge...
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Veni grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language 17 July 2024
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she wil...
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Veni grant for Neeltje Blankenstein for research to promote healthy online behaviour in youth 17 July 2024
Taking part in TikTok challenges, online gambling, and forwarding nudes. ‘Why do adolescents take online risks?’, psychologist Neeltje Blankenstein wo...
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Reinoud Kaldewaij awarded Veni grant to measure brain and body reactions to touch 17 July 2024
Part of our social contact is currently online, with no physical proximity. Does digitalisation mean that we are losing an effective way of making con...
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Veni grant for Leiden researchers 17 July 2024
The Veni grant is awarded annually by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). This year, multiple researchers from Leiden University a...
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Kathleen Gregory receives Veni grant for research on the sustainability of open data infrastructures 17 July 2024
Data about COVID-19 were everywhere during the pandemic, but how will all this data continue to be managed and kept open so that it is usable in the f...
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University 17 July 2024
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Veni grant for research on how AI is transforming science 17 July 2024
Artificial Intelligence is changing many fields of science. The project ‘Beyond “Ground Truth”: An Anthropology of AI at the Limits of Scientific Know...
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Want to help develop a Serious Game at Psychology Lab on Wheels? 16 July 2024
Psychology Lab on Wheels makes science accessible for everyone. E-Virt is aiming at being a Serious Game that on its later stages will serve as a tool...
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KIEM grant for 'CARMA: Community Archive and Repository for Multimodal and Artistic Research' 15 July 2024
Andrew Hoffman (CADS), Mark Westmoreland (CADS) and Yasmin Ismail (CADS) have received a KIEM grant of € 10.000 for their project 'CARMA: Community Ar...
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KIEM grant for 'Picturing Scholasticide' 15 July 2024
Matthew Canfield (LAW/VVI), Nadia Sonneveld (Law/VVI), Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela (CADS) and Elisa Da Vià (HUM) have received a KIEM grant of € 10.00...
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KIEM grant for 'Making up Migrants' 15 July 2024
Wiebe Ruijtenberg (Law/VVI), Nadia Sonneveld (Law/VVI), Paul van Trigt (Institute for History) and Jasmijn Rana (CADS) have received a KIEM grant of €...