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Stories from women in physics: ‘I want to understand how the world works’ 10 February 2023
For the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, women students and researchers from physics talk about what inspires them about their work. F...
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‘We should stop celebrating diversity. It should be a given’ 24 January 2023
Language matters. It can mean that people feel they do, or do not, belong. How can inclusive communication make people feel welcome? This was the them...
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Language both connects and divides 02 January 2023
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them togethe...
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'Science works better when you are diverse' 09 December 2022
Aske Plaat is the scientific director of LIACS, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Systems. He is also an ambassador for Leiden University's LG...
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Thirty-one per cent of professors at Leiden University are female 08 December 2022
The percentage of female professors at Leiden University has risen to 31.2 per cent. These are the results of the Women Professors Monitor 2021 publis...
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' 06 December 2022
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversit...
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Recap second Night of the Lobbyist: a diverse group of guests and new insights 15 November 2022
On Thursday 10 November, the Night of the Lobbyist was held. During this public event, organised by Leiden University and the Public Affairs Academy, ...
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‘Migration society asks for an interdisciplinary approach’ 01 November 2022
Peter Scholten is one of the four professors that were officially appointed as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor last week. Apart from his appointment at...
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‘When I leave the lecture and students are still discussing, I know I did a good job’ 05 October 2022
‘It was the biggest bunch of flowers I’d ever seen,’ says Emily Strange about the moment she won the Leiden Teaching Prize 2022. The judge praised the...
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’ 04 October 2022
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all student...
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Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’ 04 October 2022
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee bac...
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Launch D&I Calendar 2022-2023 13 September 2022
Following the success of the pilot calendar that was launched earlier this year, a new D&I calendar for the academic year 2022-2023 has been developed...
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eLaw publishes article in Computer Law & Security Review 12 September 2022
In healthcare, gender and sex considerations are crucial because they affect individuals' health and disease differences. Yet, most algorithms deploye...
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Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons 09 September 2022
A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the...
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Ineke Sluiter: ‘Accessibility, diversity and inclusion are a matter of doing the right thing’ 28 July 2022
For two years, Ineke Sluiter was president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Now, she is returning to the university full ...