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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information 05 July 2022
“Your roommate tests positive for COVID but you don’t have any symptoms and haven’t been in close proximity with them, do you still go out with friend...
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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time 04 July 2022
There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study....
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme 28 June 2022
The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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Young Talent Award for Anne Urai 27 June 2022
Psychologist Anne Urai has received the Young talent award from the Dutch Neuroscience society. She was described as a 'talented, promising early care...
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Cheating graphs: a lesson in statistics without arithmetic 24 June 2022
Missing legends, illogical connections or three-dimensional graphs. There are many ways in which data can deceive. Five students took up the fight aga...
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Minister wants to learn from dissertation on veteran policy 23 June 2022
Theo van den Doel received his PhD in January for his research on veteran support. This showed that for long the government learned little from past m...
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Researchers still reluctant to embrace transdisciplinary collaboration 23 June 2022
Without scientific knowledge, we won’t be able to tackle the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change, energy transition, social inequalit...
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Grant for Shelley van der Veek to teach toddlers healthy eating habits 21 June 2022
Shelley van der Veek has received a LUF Gratama grant for a research project that aims to help parents teach their toddlers healthy eating habits by p...
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‘Build resilience in traumatised children and young people’ 21 June 2022
Many children experience trauma and if they are unable to deal with it properly, it can have a huge personal and societal effect. Building resilience ...
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Professor Marja Spierenburg in the House of Representatives of The Netherlands 20 June 2022
On 15 June 2022 Professor Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood Marja Spierenburg was one of the invited speakers at the round table in the Ho...
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The Research on Research Institute (RoRI) embarks on its next five years of research on research 20 June 2022
Today marks the start of RoRI’s Phase 2. With our international consortium of partners, we’re excited to launch another five years of generating, synt...
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Psychology Science Day 2022 20 June 2022
‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day...
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‘Europe actually listens’: three Leiden political scientists about the responsiveness and effectiveness of EU policy 14 June 2022
The image of the European Union (EU) as a remote law-making machine is widespread. Quite often journalists and politicians deliberately depict ‘Brusse...
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The impact of climate change on groups of people 14 June 2022
The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will p...
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Gravitation grant for Berna Güroğlu 14 June 2022
‘I could hardly believe my ears when I heard that we had been awarded the Gravitation grant,’ says Berna Güroğlu, professor of the Neuroscience of Soc...