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Ukraine, Gaza, climate and migration: Geopolitics increasingly on the municipality’s plateInterview 24 November 2025From cities that sometimes deviate from national foreign policy to the direct influence of geopolitics on local developments, PhD candidate Pieter Jer...
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‘Training the pharmacists of tomorrow is something we do together’Appointment 24 November 2025Martijn Manson became programme director for the Master’s in Pharmacy this month. He is a pharmacist as well as a lecturer and researcher at the LACDR...
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Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 20 November 2025Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNA...
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Inequality in medical science: ‘We need to better understand the flexibility of the female brain’Hormones 19 November 2025During a well-attended Studium Generale lecture at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Professor Ellen de Bruijn demonstrated how hormonal fluctuations influence t...
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'Children are too seldom seen as victims of femicide'Interview 19 November 2025What do we know about the children left behind after (ex-)partner homicide? Director Sara Kolster and professor Marieke Liem joined forces to bring th...
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Hundreds join Leiden Reclaim the Night march19 November 2025‘Let’s get everyone home safely!’ This was the message of an estimated 750 demonstrators as they marched through the centre of Leiden on 18 November. ...
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Get started with a new teacher's guide for transdisciplinary education18 November 2025Transdisciplinary education, in which students work with external parties, is getting more popular. How do you start such a programme as a teacher? Th...
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Gerlov van Engelenhoven and Yanise Zijlstra make short film: 'Intangible heritage you can't put into words'Impact Explorer grant 18 November 2025University lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven was to be a guest in one podcast by culture maker and anthropologist Yanise Zijlstra on intangible heritag...
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Banned almost–prime minister of Thailand: ‘Politics must be moral and realistic’Interview 17 November 2025Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forw...
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Municipalities too eager to digitalise, professor warnsInaugural lecture 17 November 2025Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serv...
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking14 November 2025Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic...
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Working past 60 while staying healthy: grant awarded for Leiden research13 November 2025Many people work less after turning 60 which is not helping the economy. Egbert Jongen, Professor of Economics, will explore with his team how employe...
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LUC awarded NVAO special feature sustainable higher education11 November 2025Leiden University College (LUC) is proud to announce that it have been awarded the Special Feature Sustainable Higher Education by the Accreditation O...
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Aya Ezawa honoured for volunteer work with Japanese-Indonesian war children: 'Recognition of the importance of reconciliation'Japanese award 10 November 2025University lecturer Aya Ezawa has received a Certificate of Commendation from the Japanese Embassy in the Netherlands for her efforts to promote recon...
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Cleveringa Professor Landemore: ‘I want to patch the holes in our democracy’Cleveringa Lecture 05 November 2025Rich, white, urban: Western politicians often represent a small segment of the population. Political scientist Hélène Landemore advocates for a more i...