News
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Leiden helps refugee researcher make a new start 18 August 2020
What happens if you are an academic forced to flee your home country and find yourself here in the Netherlands with practically nothing? The Hestia sc...
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Black Lives Matter - New network of Dutch museums 30 June 2020
How are people of color represented in art collections? And do young people of color feel that museum collections reflect their norms and values? Deve...
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Paul Wouters on what the Black Lives Matter-movement means for Social and Behavioural Sciences 11 June 2020
George Floyd's death still leads to fierce protests against police violence and racism on a daily basis in the United States and abroad. We asked Paul...
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Fabiola Diana and Liza Cornet win FameLab Leiden pre-round 30 April 2020
The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...
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‘Could the slide have coronavirus on it?’ 17 April 2020
What do I do if Mum or Dad gets the virus? Could the slide at the playground have coronavirus on it? Can children die of the virus too? On 15 April, t...
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for children 02 April 2020
A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short...
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Webinar: societal acceptance of new climate technology 30 March 2020
Psychologists Emma ter Mors, Christine Boomsma and other research partners will share results from their work on the crucial issue of societal support...
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How can families weather the corona crisis? 24 March 2020
Suddenly everyone is at home, but this is not a holiday – far from it. Because work and school are ‘simply’ carrying on remotely. How can parents and ...
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Even stockpiling can be social behaviour 23 March 2020
The Netherlands has also announced special measures to fight SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. These measures have at times caused questionable behaviour, such ...
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career 03 March 2020
Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experience...
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Children in court proceedings should be heard at much younger age 02 March 2020
On 2 March 2020 the report Kind in proces: van communicatie naar effectieve participatie (Children in proceedings: from communication towards effectiv...
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Lively debate at public symposium on sustainability 21 February 2020
A public symposium was held at Leiden University on 20 February on a hot topic: renewable energy. This is the second time in a year that the Universit...
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‘You end up in a completely different world’ 17 January 2020
What did psychology student Jessie learn while working at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia? And why is Noman from Yemen now studying political sci...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’ 27 November 2019
Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the C...
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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...