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From street harassment to abuse of power: social dynamics of gender-based violence23 September 2025From street harassment to coercive control: gender-based violence has many faces. Assistant professor Mischa Dekker has studied street harassment in t...
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Join us at 3 October University and the Weekend of ScienceEvents 22 September 2025Are you brave enough to enter a haunted house? Curious about how the human skeleton works? Discover this and more on 3 October at the Science Market i...
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From entrepreneur to Director of Operations: ‘I’ve grown along with the institute’New in the CML’s leadership team 22 September 2025He started out as a temporary staff member at the CML’s education office, and now – eight years later – Jasper Williams is the institute’s new Directo...
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Lennart Kruijer returns to Archaeology: ‘It’s good to be back!’22 September 2025After a three-year absence, Lennart Kruijer has returned to the Faculty of Archaeology. He previously completed his PhD within the VICI project Innova...
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How minority governments could benefit the NetherlandsPhD defence 22 September 2025Minority governments only become an option when attempts to form a government collapse. PhD candidate Corné Smit explored why such governments have be...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2025: the nominees22 September 2025The thesis is the ‘pièce de résistance’ in all the programmes offered by the Institute of Political Science. Students are requested to give their all ...
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Pre-registering your research: Extra effort, but what's the pay-off?Open Science 22 September 2025Registering your hypothesis and analysis plan online before starting your study – why should researchers bother? Henk van Steenbergen, a researcher in...
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From tulip to quantum: Leiden discoveries revisitedLeiden Discoveries 22 September 2025To mark the university’s 450th anniversary, the Leiden Discoveries science route has been updated and was relaunched on the Night of Discoveries. New ...
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Atte Ahola wins Global Undergraduate Award 202522 September 2025Atte Ahola, who graduated last year from the bachelor’s programme in Urban Studies, has won the award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Europe in the c...
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Inclusive leadership beyond polarisation22 September 2025Polarisation is pervasive: in the workplace, within teams, and even at the top of organisations. Discussions become entrenched, emotions rise, and col...
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NATO Chief Rutte in conversation with The Hague students: ‘I’m glad about Trump’19 September 2025Wearing All Stars and ‘just’ a pair of jeans, with a backpack slung over his shoulder. It was an informal Friday afternoon with Mark Rutte, NATO Secre...
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Word from the LUCSoR Chair: September 202519 September 2025The academic year has kicked off—and how! On 2 September, Dr. Yves Menheere opened our year with a lecture on “The What and Why of Chinese Religions”....
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Open Science Survey launched to map awareness and needs across Leiden University19 September 2025A new university-wide survey is now open to all involved in conducting, teaching, advising on, or supporting research related activities at Leiden Uni...
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Kirsten Sandberg appointed as Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s Rights 2025/202619 September 2025Leiden University is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Kirsten Sandberg as the Rotating Honorary Chair in Enforcement of Children’s R...
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Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman in Wijnhaven: 'American men have real problems'18 September 2025In a packed lecture hall at Wijnhaven, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman succinctly summed up the essence of his argument on Wednesday 17 September: ‘Ru...