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Leiden University College writing project brings students together: ‘I am a kitchen in Gaza, and now it is dark’19 June 2025What happens when students from three very different contexts come together to explore the social determinants of health? This spring, students from L...
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Vulnerability in open-source code has been floating around for 15 years: ‘This shows how complex security really is’18 June 2025Researchers at LIACS have found a vulnerability in open-source code that’s been used around the world for over 15 years. They’ve also developed an AI-...
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'No study is as relevant as Security Studies, you learn about everything that is going wrong in the world right now'18 June 2025Four students who completed the Bachelor's in Security Studies share their experiences. What did they learn? Where did they end up after graduating? A...
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Announcement of Scaliger Institute research fellowship winners18 June 2025With support of several companies, including Brill Publishers, Elsevier and private foundations, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Scaliger In...
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Africa Thesis Award for Baleseng Maeneche18 June 2025Baleseng Maeneche (University of the Western Cape) has won the Africa Thesis Award 2024 with a master's thesis on media representation of male perpetr...
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Religious Studies students combat loneliness: ‘Simply acknowledging the complexity helps’18 June 2025Last semester, bachelor’s students in Religious Studies spent a lot of time in community centres in Leiden. The reason: field research into loneliness...
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How hand gestures and a brief hallway chat encourage policy-makingInterview 17 June 2025What if the real decisions aren’t found in policy documents, but are rather made in the hallway? In international book project ‘Informality in Policym...
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Two researchers from FSW receive the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Researchers Andrea Evers and Diana Suhardiman have been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant,...
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Lights off, sound on: Leiden University opens artificial river to study fish migration17 June 2025On 16 June, Leiden University opens the MIGRADROME: a unique, seven-metre-long artificial river. Researchers will use it to study how light and sound ...
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Bleda Düring investigates social inequality in Cyprus with ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025Archaeologist Prof Bleda Düring has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his research on the emergence of social inequalities in the tran...
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Four Leiden researchers receive ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
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Floris Harm studied Chinese, just like one of his ancestors: ‘We’re both trying to promote mutual understanding’17 June 2025When Floris Harm took up his role as director of the Leiden Asia Centre, he made a remarkable discovery on the university website. It turned out that ...
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More than 100 years of studying South Asia: ‘The view of the area is changing’17 June 2025At the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), scholars have been studying the Indian subcontinent with attention and expertise for more than 100 ye...
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Looking back at the universe’s wild youthInaugural lecture Mariska Kriek 17 June 2025How do galaxies form? Thanks to major technological advances, astronomers are gaining ever-deeper insights, says astrophysicist Mariska Kriek in her i...
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Academic freedom is at risk – what steps can we take to defend it?Research day 16 June 2025At the annual research day (‘toogdag’) of the research programme Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Pluralist World (EPFR), researchers r...