News
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Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks 13 November 2019
Textbooks in the Netherlands contain significantly fewer female than male characters and relatively few characters from a non-Western background. They...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival 12 November 2019
It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...
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School absenteeism: A universal problem in need of solutions 01 November 2019
The International Network for School Attendance launched an inaugural conference in Norway, playing host to 14 countries, 254 participants. Lead of th...
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Donations for research projects with relevance to society 20 October 2019
Psychologists Marieke Tollenaar, Anne Miers and Esther van den Bos received donations from the Leiden University Fund and Stichting Praesidium Liberta...
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Recalling good memories together 18 October 2019
Recalling positive memories can help you feel better about yourself. Charlotte van Schie is aiming to use this fact to help people with a borderline p...
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The healing power of light 15 October 2019
Light makes us flourish – in this respect we humans are just like a rose or an azalea. Light can also be used to treat people who are ill. In Leiden, ...
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Alfons Chorus, founder of the Institute of Psychology: who was he really? 14 October 2019
Alfons Chorus was the ‘founding father’ of Psychology in Leiden. His son Rogier Chorus recently obtained his PhD at Leiden University based on his bio...
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3 October University: big science for small people 07 October 2019
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning someth...
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Rianne de Kleine using Veni grant to study post-traumatic stress 01 October 2019
Can we improve the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Our young and promising psychologist Rianne de Kleine receives a Veni grant to ...
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap 27 September 2019
Zsuzsika Sjoerds seems to be busy with her research, her teaching, and open science advocacy. She will also take over the Twitter account for Dutch sc...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’ 26 September 2019
The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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Four perspectives on smoking and the tobacco lobby 23 September 2019
Doctors are entering the fray, court cases are being filed and smokers are becoming more of a pariah. From lobby expert to medical biologist: four Lei...
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School's out! But not for head teachers 10 July 2019
Many head teachers will have to try and fill staffing gaps this summer. Assistant Professor Kim Stroet, who is researching pupil motivation, is worrie...
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Andrea Evers wins Stevin Prize for knowledge exchange and impact 21 June 2019
Andrea Evers, Professor of Health Psychology at Leiden University, has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific awar...
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Municipality and University join forces to help children with behavioural problems 20 June 2019
A Preventive Intervention Team that investigates children with behavioural problems and trains their social skills in order to prevent school dropout ...