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Paula van den Bergh: ‘You shouldn’t underestimate the strength of a team’ 08 April 2022
The Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology has a new Director of Operational Management. It’s the perfect role for Paula van den Bergh. ‘For m...
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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...
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme 05 April 2022
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the...
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Ten lessons on making an impact: ‘What dilemmas will you face?’ 04 April 2022
In the booklet ‘Research with Windows Wide Open’, eight professors in the social sciences and humanities advise colleagues who want to make an impact ...
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The parallels between quarrelling animals and humans 04 April 2022
The journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences published its theme issue ‘Conflict across taxa’ on 4 April, which w...
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What works in social work? Large-scale research into social resilience policy interventions 03 April 2022
The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the N...
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Podcast: Animals have emotions 01 April 2022
In this episode, we talk with Mariska Kret about the expressions of emotions in humans and animals. Mariska explores the similarities and differences ...
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Autism with borders 31 March 2022
Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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Yung-Ting Tsou wins Poster Prize at Dutch National Autisme Congres 2022 28 March 2022
Developmental psychologist Yung-Ting Tsou's research is part of the Breaking the Cycle project. This project of the Focus on Emotions lab at Leiden Un...
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Natashe Lemos Dekker awarded Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 24 March 2022
Natashe Lemos Dekker has been awarded the Distinguished Women Scientists Fund 2021. This travel grant for female postdocs allows her to spend a period...
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Psychologists participate in high-tech biomarker research in health care 24 March 2022
Next generation immunodermatology (NGID) is a nationwide, large-scale project, funded by a large grant of the Dutch NWO to unravel novel biomarkers fo...
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Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship 23 March 2022
Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Wom...
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NWA grants for interdisciplinary consortia 21 March 2022
Several consortia in which Leiden University is involved have been awarded Dutch Research Agenda funding. Leiden is the coordinator of five of these c...
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NWA grant for Anouk de Koning and consortium for research on social resilience 18 March 2022
A 5 million euros grant from the Dutch Research Agenda allows Anouk de Koning and co-applicants Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to study ...