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New partnership aims to enhance public sector leadership30 June 2025The newly launched Public Leadership in Collaboration partnership has been designed to enhance leadership within and across public sector organisation...
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A stronghold of freedom: how IncLUsion welcomes refugee students into the academic communityGraduation incLUsion 30 June 2025The incLUsion programme offers refugees who are not yet able to enrol as regular students the opportunity to take part in university education. Simon ...
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Rick Lawson appointed new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human RightsAppointment 30 June 2025Rick Lawson, Professor of European Law and former Dean of Leiden Law School, was appointed as the new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human...
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Leideners find more than 2,000 species in urban biodiversity inventoryBiodiversity 30 June 2025Around 1,300 Leideners found 2,265 species during the Expeditie Stadsnutuur urban biodiversity inventory. ‘It’s been a huge success’, says scientific ...
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What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces30 June 2025Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy...
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René Kleijn joins UN panel on resource use30 June 2025How can we manage our natural resources more sustainably? That’s the key question behind the United Nations’ International Resource Panel (IRP). The p...
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Personalised medicine? Then you’ll need to look beyond genetics30 June 2025Why does a medicine work well for one person, but cause side effects in another? Research by Laura de Jong shows that it’s not just our DNA that matte...
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Supermassive black holes: how do you study something that is invisible?Astronomy 30 June 2025How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you...
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EALCJ conference in Warsaw29 June 2025Gerrard Boot and Yvonne Erkens attended the annual conference of the European Association of Labour Court Judges (EALCJ) which was held from 12 to 14 ...
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Melanie Fink Presents on 'Good Administration in the Age of AI' at the European Ombudsman27 June 2025On 26 June 2025, Melanie Fink delivered a presentation titled 'Good Administration in the Age of AI: Explanation Rights and Human Oversight under EU L...
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and BeyondCall for papers for conference 29-30 October 2025 at Leiden University 27 June 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shap...
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Leiden physicists search for ultralight dark matter using a magnetically levitated particlePHYSICS 27 June 2025Is it possible to measure subtle oscillations caused by dark matter moving through the earth? A Dutch-American physicist team have discovered a new ro...
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Students, staff and alumni to share the stage at Leiden Canal ConcertAnniversary 27 June 2025Music lovers are welcome at this free open-air concert celebrating 450 years of Leiden University, on Sunday 6 July. This special jubilee edition of t...
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Self-scan inclusive leadership: a mirror and conversation starter27 June 2025As society becomes increasingly diverse, public organisations are being challenged to adapt their services to ensure that everyone feels heard and see...
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Growing the Leiden Heritage community: Archaeology hosts 2nd Heritage Open Mic26 June 2025Are you an interdisciplinary researcher working on or with heritage? Do you struggle with faculty fragmentation and finding relevant colleagues to col...