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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies05 April 2023Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much ...
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world04 April 2023Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those...
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’02 March 2023Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes ...
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OPZIJ-editor-in-chief Marleen Hogendoorn: ‘I was already a budding feminist at the age of eleven'19 January 2023Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ. How does she...
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Secondary school students grapple with Dutch texts: ‘I liked the feminist part best’22 December 2022University lecturer Olga van Marion invited pupils from Ashram College in Alphen aan den Rijn to take part in a series of Dutch workshops organised at...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'19 December 2022Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum12 December 2022From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them m...
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words26 September 2022Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the developm...
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Dutch people should stop ‘politely’ switching to English26 September 2022Endangered languages can survive if they are taught properly to new speakers, such as people with a migrant background. This is what Professor by Spec...
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’10 May 2022Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Du...
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European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’26 April 2022Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, com...
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’25 April 2022How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect rec...
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?19 April 2022
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language ...
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience07 April 2022A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge...
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all24 March 2022For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent...