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Two Van Bergen Prize winners: bringing Dutch and international students together 22 January 2020
The Van Bergen Prize was awarded to not one, but two initiatives at the Diversity Symposium on 22 January. ‘Leiden City Safari’ is a fun city tour tha...
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‘There’s a difference between inclusion and change’ 20 January 2020
If you want to talk about inclusion, you have to bring up the subject of race. This is what Kamna Patel said at Leiden University’s annual Diversity S...
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Saniye Çelik on the diversity policy of the Dutch central government 18 December 2019
Saniye Çelik, senior programme manager at the Centre Professional Learning (CPL) at Leiden University: The diversity policy of the Dutch central gover...
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Saniye Çelik in ScienceGuide on discrimination and inclusiveness in the Dutch police force 12 December 2019
Saniye Çelik, senior programme manager at the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL), has been invited by the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Jus...
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Relatively large number of female professors at Leiden University 12 December 2019
Leiden has the second-highest percentage of female professors of all the Dutch universities. These are the results of the annual Women Professors Moni...
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Daniela Kraft wins Athena Prize 2019 10 December 2019
Daniela Kraft will be awarded the NWO Athena Prize 2019 in a ceremony at the CHAINS Chemistry Conference on 10 December. The prize recognizes excellen...
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‘Diversity doesn’t appear at the wave of a magic wand’ 02 December 2019
If universities want to open their doors to more students and staff from minority groups, good intentions alone will not suffice. That is what Frank T...
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Jorinde van de Vis wins For Women in Science Rising Talent prize 21 November 2019
Jorinde van de Vis wins the For Women in Science Rising Talent-prize for women in science, for her PhD thesis in cosmology and particle physics.
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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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A matter of dark matter 14 October 2019
Is our universe built up out of warm or cold dark matter? The standard model assumes cold dark matter particles, but astronomer Sylvia Ploeckinger is ...
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Leiden student wins ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award 27 September 2019
Leiden Business Law student Raz Ahmad has won the ECHO Loyens & Loeff Law & Tax Award 2019. The ECHO Awards are presented each year to excellent stude...
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‘An inclusive university begins with which books you choose’ 24 September 2019
Sociologist Aya Ezawa is the new Diversity Officer at Leiden University. What is the University doing well and what could it do better? ‘It’s taken mu...
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‘It’s a real balancing act for doctors at gender clinics’ 16 September 2019
Do young people who want to change gender have the unconditional right to medical treatment? Pediatric Endocrinologist Martine de Vries, who is also P...
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Four years of women's network at the Faculty of Science 12 September 2019
A valuable community of female researchers, providing solicited and unsolicited advice to the Board of the Faculty of Science. Those are the strengths...
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Photo reportage: international students get to know Leiden 03 September 2019
At Orientation Week Leiden, a record 1,378 new international students got to know the city and one another. From a cracking karaoke party to fishing p...