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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers23 February 2023Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Data analysis of dark web forums in the fight against child sexual abuse20 February 2023By far the majority of users of child sexual abuse networks (or child porn forums as they are sometimes called) on the dark web do not actively commun...
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A year of war against Ukraine: What now?16 February 2023After a year of war against Ukraine, professors André Gerrits, Antoaneta Dimitrova and Frans Osinga look back at Russian aggression and Western unity ...
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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between ISGA and Fukushima University13 February 2023Last January Jake Wright and Andrea Bartolucci of the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) traveled to Japan and visited some Japanese Inst...
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Two ISGA research projects receive NWO Open Competition grant13 February 2023A total of 21 Leiden researchers have successfully applied for the NWO SGW Open Competition XS. Two of the rewarded projects come from FGGA researcher...
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong appointed as professor International Sustainable Development Law13 February 2023Starting 1 February 2023, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong has been appointed as professor to the new Chair International Sustainable Development Law at the Groti...
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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands03 February 2023BrainTrain: an initiative from Leiden University in which a team of students visit high schools to make adolescents more resilient against disinformat...
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European grant for Ellen de Bruijn: ‘Hormonal fluctuations in women have been ignored for too long in brain research’31 January 2023Psychologist Ellen de Bruijn studies the effects of hormonal fluctuations on behaviour and on the brain over a woman's life course. With an ERC Consol...
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‘Radicalisation is the logical consequence of how we live together’31 January 2023With radicalisation, most people will think of individuals who carry out terrorist attacks as part of a certain ideology. Professor of Radicalisation ...
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Director of the MIVD General Swillens visits ISGA to talk about intelligence cooperation11 January 2023On 15 December, Director of the MIVD General Jan Swillens, visited the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) to give a lecture on internatio...
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Being a guest teacher during master: how do BrainTrain students experience high-school visits?19 December 2022The outreach and engagement platform BrainTrain consists of five enthusiastic students of the masters programme Forensic Family Science. As part of th...
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Anne-Laura van Harmelen about resilience research and public engagement on Dutch radio programme Sleutelstad14 December 2022In a one-hour interview on Dutch radio programme Sleutelstad, Anne-Laura van Harmelen talks about her research into the role friendships in adolescent...
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Lecture on 'Visible and invisible violence against women' by Marieke Liem and Renate van der Zee12 December 2022On Friday 9 December, Renate van der Zee and professor Marieke Liem held a lecture on 'Visible and invisible violence against women' at the Campus The...
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Orange the World: Visible and invisible violence against women01 December 2022On 25 November, the global 16-day campaign 'Orange the World' against violence against women and girls started. Leiden University will also be paying ...