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New Professor Hanneke Hulst is a team player 07 December 2021
Hanneke Hulst has held the new Leiden chair in Neuropsychology in Health and Disease since 1 September. From 1 January she will also be chair of the H...
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Recap of the 2021 Anthropoplogy CADS PhD Conference 06 December 2021
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opp...
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Giving makes you happy 03 December 2021
Receiving a gift is nice, but giving a present also makes you happy. Development psychologist Mara van der Meulen former member of the Leiden Consorti...
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8 Leiden Anthropologists jointly publish new guide for Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography 03 December 2021
On 30 November 2021 the book 'Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography: A Practical and Theoretical Guide' was published by Routledge. The book resulted fr...
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Podcast: Social Anxiety Disorder 29 November 2021
Have you ever experienced the feeling of awkwardness when attending a party where you didn’t know anybody? Ever felt shy at a party within the first f...
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More focus on skateboarders in academic discourse 23 November 2021
There are approximately 60 million skateboarders worldwide. And yet in the academic world, this culture is not always looked upon seriously. Visual an...
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Cancer patients want a doctor who shows empathy and doesn’t make vague promises 22 November 2021
Patients with incurable cancer want their oncologist to be clear but to show empathy too. They find hard and vague communication harmful. These are th...
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Medical Delta professor Andrea Evers: ‘I find it important to look for new ways’ 18 November 2021
Prof. Andrea Evers is a health psychologist who studies the role of behavioural factors in health and disease. As a Medical Delta Professor, she is no...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle 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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Kira Nijland about her role as a student member of the Institute Board of CADS 17 November 2021
Kira Nijland follows the master programme Policy in Practice and is since October the student member of the Institute Board of Cultural Anthropology. ...
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Navigating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork 15 November 2021
On Friday the 5th of November, members of the CADS Institute engaged in a lively roundtable lunch discussion on navigating boundaries in ethnographic ...
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Autistic children develop social-emotional skills with other children 10 November 2021
Autistic children have indeed potential: most of their emotional abilities improve with age, concludes developmental psychologist Boya Li in her resea...
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Andrew Littlejohn awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 10 November 2021
Dr. Andrew Littlejohn has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The fellowship provi...
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Encouraging secondary school students to think and talk about sustainability and policy 07 November 2021
Anne Veens is on a mission. She wants secondary school students to get acquainted with anthropology, and think about the value it can have in the deve...
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Perspective for people with borderline personality disorder 05 November 2021
‘Raising awareness of the disorder is crucial since borderline personality disorder (BPD) still faces considerable stigma ’, says Anne Krause-Utz (Cli...