News
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From Leiden to Japan: ‘As a news correspondent, I really get to know the country’ 17 May 2023
It was a family friend who told him to quit his self-destructive work in IT: ‘Go do something with your life!’ So at the age of 23, Anoma van der Veer...
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A quick call with Corinda van Bohemen about the SteunLeiden.nl crowdfunding platform 16 May 2023
From an emergency fund for Ukrainian students to a golf tournament for cancer research at the LUMC: the Leiden University Fund (LUF) crowdfunding plat...
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3 reasons why you shouldn’t miss ‘Interdisciplinary Collaborations – Food, Sustainability & Health’ 16 May 2023
On Friday June 2, the Liveable Planet event 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations - Food, Sustainability & Health' will take place. Here, researchers can ...
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Our Earth is becoming unliveable. Can we still turn the tide? 16 May 2023
We have crossed six of the nine boundaries within which human life on Earth will still be possible for future generations. That is not good news. Can ...
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Organising an event about AI? Ask SAILS for help 15 May 2023
AI has applications in all kinds of fields. Would you like to organise an event on the possibilities of AI in your research field? The Leiden interdis...
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Psychology-colleagues are raising money for MS-research: ‘Most of us take their cognitive skills for granted’ 11 May 2023
Running, walking or horseback riding: colleagues from the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology unit are each working up a sweat this month to raise mon...
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10,000 euro interdisciplinary call: visit our event on 17 May 10 May 2023
In the coming months, the university will make funds available to young Leiden researchers who want to start small-scale interdisciplinary initiatives...
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New SSH Sylvius labs: ‘The basis should be good’ 10 May 2023
Before the SSH labs in the Sylvius building will open their doors in the new academic year, there are still some obstacles to overcome. But when every...
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Cabinet proposal for binding study advice: not a wise plan 09 May 2023
On 9 May, Minister Dijkgraaf of Education, Culture and Science (OCW), announced his plans for amending the Binding Study Advice (BSA). If the Minister...
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‘Nearly every research study has a governance dimension, but academics know very little about it’ 08 May 2023
The annual conference of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme will take place in The Hague...
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New course Experimentation I: Programming Psychological Experiments developed with Grass Shoots grant 04 May 2023
Last year, Henk van Steenbergen received a Grass Shoots grant to completely redevelop the research master's course 'Experimentation I: Programming Psy...
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry 04 May 2023
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem l...
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What do you do if your professor winks at you? 03 May 2023
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the poli...
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Freedom: International students and staff tell us what it means to them 03 May 2023
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that cannot be taken for granted in many countries. We asked international students and staff what ...
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Liveable Planet present at LUGO Sustainability Day 03 May 2023
Liveable Planet, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme on sustainability, has a full presence at the LUGO Sustainability Day on Tuesday 9 Ma...