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Anthropology students win Speckmann Prize for LGBTQ+ community care researchSpeckmann Prize 16 July 2025Second-year Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students Sonja Weckroth, Leonardo Costa, and Ilse Zwart have been awarded the prestigious ...
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Student protests in Serbia: Evolution, prospects and lessons10 July 2025On June 16, 2025, the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University hosted a panel debate about the ongoing mass student-led protests in Serbia....
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Strengthening Integrity in Science and Data: CWTS and EDI Announce Strategic PartnershipCOLLABORATION 07 July 2025The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Unde...
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Spring for everyone: KCPEG symposium on existence insecurity shows both urgency and solutionsPolicy, science and practice come together in the former orphanage during the Spring symposium 2025. 23 June 2025On a sunny afternoon in early June, the KCPEB Spring symposium ‘Spring for everyone’ was held in Leiden’s former orphanage, organised by the Expertise...
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Time to attend to the itch in psychology23 June 2025Patients with chronic itching often cannot focus their attention on anything else. Psychologists want to help them, but they need more knowledge about...
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From horror to silent strength: Leiden researches emotions at Lowlands23 June 2025This summer, Leiden University will be setting up camp at Lowlands with two research projects. From a spine-chilling haunted house to a silent perform...
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From hormone differences to valid questionnaires: psychology students present their research at the Science Day 202519 June 2025How do you measure over-protective parenting? Why are girls more likely to develop anxiety disorders? And do the social skills of therapists really ma...
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Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
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Honesty doesn’t always pay in negotiations12 June 2025When negotiating a salary or a purchase, negotiators often make strategic use of emotions. Social psychologist Zi Ye demonstrates how one negotiator m...
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‘Don’t let open science degenerate into a data dump’Inaugural lecture 12 June 2025An endless stream of publications, data and software accessible to all. It might sound idealistic, but Professor of Science Studies Thed van Leeuwen w...
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Launch of 'Picturing Scholasticide': Preserving knowledge, culture, and livesExhibition 12 June 2025After nine months of intense collaboration between staff and students at Leiden University and universities in Gaza, the 'Picturing Scholasticide' pro...
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‘We’re already at war – we’re just acting as though we’re not’Just Peace Dialogues 10 June 2025‘Our infrastructure is under attack, elections are being influenced and political assassinations being committed. We’re already at war – it just looks...
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Call for Participants: Researching Migration Policy in Autocratizing CountriesFrom the Desk to the Field 10 June 2025Are you doing research on migration policy in a country that is facing democratic backsliding or breakdown, or that is deepening its already-autocrati...
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“Hope springs eternal”: Protest and social movements in the NetherlandsKIEM grant 05 June 2025Mariska Jung (FGGA), Looi van Kessel (FGW), and Jasmijn Rana (FSW) have received a KIEM grant of €10,000 together with the Institute for Social Justic...
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Two NWO Mosaic 2.0 grants awarded to cultural anthropology PhDs04 June 2025Dilara Erzeybek and Oumaima Hajri, two PhD students in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology received a Mosaic 2.0 grant last week. This NWO...