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Documentary film alumna Visual Ethnography on show at Pakhuis de Zwijger 02 May 2023
Wilke Geurds graduated from the Visual Ethnography master's programme last year with her intimate and vulnerable documentary 'F*ck Endo. More than jus...
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Alumni meet up in Japan. ‘Finally the chance to speak Dutch again’ 01 May 2023
An impressive 60 alumni recently came to the Dutch Embassy residence in Japan to meet, network, see friends and practise their languages.
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations 01 May 2023
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Sw...
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‘Not everyone has health goals top of mind’ 01 May 2023
Doctors can fix a lot, but preventing or delaying disease is better. This often requires lifestyle changes, which turn out to be difficult. Sandra van...
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Leiden University signs strategic partnership with Asian Development Bank 01 May 2023
Leiden University is going to partner with the Asian Development Bank, a bank committed to regional development. President of the Executive Board Anne...
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'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact 21 April 2023
Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in soci...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023
What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society 14 April 2023
Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour 14 April 2023
Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’ 12 April 2023
After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both ...
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect 11 April 2023
What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocrat...
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023
Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient? 11 April 2023
Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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To what extent does your background and your own physical consciousness influence your experience in VR? 05 April 2023
Neuroscientists Ineke van der Ham (Leiden University) and Anouk Keizer (Utrecht University) regularly use VR in their research. Their experiences with...
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies 05 April 2023
Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much ...