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Anthropology students win Speckmann Prize for LGBTQ+ community care researchSpeckmann Prize 16 July 2025
Second-year Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students Sonja Weckroth, Leonardo Costa, and Ilse Zwart have been awarded the prestigious ...
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European Proof of Concept grants for two Leiden researchers14 July 2025
Two Leiden researchers have been awarded ERC Proof of Concept grants. These grants, each worth EUR 150,000, will help the grantees in their efforts to...
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Leiden scientists join national effort to advance nanomedicine10 July 2025
A Dutch consortium has received €6.7 million to accelerate the development of nanomedicines together with patients. Researchers from Leiden University...
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Additional funding for five experimental and innovative research projects04 July 2025
Five Leiden research projects in history, law and AI have received SSH Open Competition M 2024 funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The rese...
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Rick Lawson appointed new president of the Netherlands Institute for Human RightsAppointment 30 June 2025
Rick 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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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’Interview 26 June 2025
How did people in the past deal with change? And how did such change influence personal and collective identities? For her research on these questions...
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Video labs and narratives of future conflicts: two lecturers receive a Comenius GrantInnovation in education 24 June 2025
Lecturers Marjo de Graauw and Malte Riemann have both received a Comenius Teaching Fellowship. The €50,000 grant will enable them and their project te...
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Two researchers from FSW receive the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025
Researchers 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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Bleda Düring investigates social inequality in Cyprus with ERC Advanced Grant17 June 2025
Archaeologist 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 2025
From social inequalities in prehistory to placebo effects in medical treatments. Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a prestigio...
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Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions13 June 2025
A KIEM grant was recently awarded to a diverse group of Leiden researchers, aiming to organise an interdisciplinary conference with the title ‘Ancient...
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NWO Open Competition grants for two projects with Leiden researchers05 June 2025
Two research projects with researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition Domain Science-M progr...
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“Hope springs eternal”: Protest and social movements in the NetherlandsKIEM grant 05 June 2025
Mariska Jung (FGGA), Looi van Kessel (FGW), and Jasmijn Rana (FSW) have received a KIEM grant of €10,000 together with the Institute for Social Justic...
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Carla van Baalen awarded Thorbecke MedalAward 04 June 2025
Carla van Baalen was awarded the Thorbecke Medal on 4 June. She received the award in recognition of her remarkable and varied oeuvre in the field of ...
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Two NWO Mosaic 2.0 grants awarded to cultural anthropology PhDs04 June 2025
Dilara Erzeybek and Oumaima Hajri, two PhD students in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology received a Mosaic 2.0 grant last week. This NWO...