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Opposing the French participle clause 10 February 2022
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perha...
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Diversity and inclusion: ‘Don’t avoid the subject' 08 February 2022
The new online diversity and inclusion dossier combines all faculty initiatives on this topic. But what is the situation on diversity and inclusion at...
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund 04 February 2022
The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclu...
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‘People are equal but not the same’: diversity and inclusion from a legal perspective 18 January 2022
What is written in law and what equality, inclusion and diversity mean in practice is not always the same. This was the focus of this year’s D&I sympo...
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Visit our new faculty webpage Diversity & Inclusion 11 January 2022
The webpage Diversity & Inclusion for the Faculty of Law is live. On this page, you will find everything about the faculty activities and plans in the...
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From in-person lectures to a first-class degree: our year on social media 21 December 2021
Covid year 2021 might have felt somewhat less strange than the year before, but the virus still left its mark on University life and our students and ...
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Equality as a driver for diversity: ‘Seek out contradiction and the unknown’ 19 December 2021
The freedom to be who you are – woman, man, homosexual, heterosexual, transgender, religious, atheist, and so on – is perhaps the Netherlands’ greates...
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Meeting place for and by all students: That is POPCorner, The Hague 13 December 2021
The POPCorner The Hague festive opening week has been postponed due to the more restrictive corona measures, but the website is online, its’ employees...
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Percentage of female professors rises to over 30 percent 09 December 2021
The percentage of female professors at Leiden University has risen to 30.2%. These are the results of the Women Professors Monitor 2021, which was pub...
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Leiden project wins international astronomy engagement award 02 December 2021
The online summer programme Space in Your Living Room by Leiden Observatory has won the first prize ‘Most Innovative Event’ of the Astronomy@Home Awar...
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Students Ruşen and Rana fight for diversity in higher education 29 November 2021
Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...
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Law graduate Jiska Ogier speaks from experience: ‘The Netherlands should be much more accessible for people with disabilities’ 18 November 2021
Jiska Ogier studied notarial law, which wasn’t always easy because she went to lectures in a wheelchair. As a student she pushed to make society acces...
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Aline-Priscillia and Ruşen nominated for an ECHO Award 14 October 2021
Working towards a more inclusive and diverse society, next to your studies. Humanities students Aline-Priscillia Messi and Ruşen Koç devote a consider...
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A wheelchair in the Old Observatory 05 October 2021
Yesterday marked the start of the National Accessibility Week. How accessible is Leiden University for people with a disability? We asked Lucia Langer...
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Frustrated scientists convince astronomy journal to implement trans inclusive name change policy 10 September 2021
A group of united astronomers have successfully convinced Europe’s leading astronomy journal Astronomy & Astrophysics to institute a name change polic...