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Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association 22 June 2023
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class...
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Five questions on the new annual appraisal 22 June 2023
No more ones, twos or threes, but focusing on development opportunities. This summer, the Faculty of Humanities will start a pilot for the new Perform...
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SSH labs: a place to be inspired by your colleagues 19 June 2023
The new SSH labs will offer great opportunities for FSW and FGW staff engaged in experimental research. The labs will be a place of inspiration, not o...
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The Teaching Fair: from downtime to teaching about research methods 19 June 2023
One more week, then the Teaching Fair will start. For a whole afternoon, all the Faculty of Humanities teaching staff will be able to gain inspiration...
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University concerned about minister’s plans to curb internationalisation 16 June 2023
Leiden University is concerned about the plans presented by Minister of Education, Culture and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf to limit English-taught cours...
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Leiden through the student lens: Student Loïs de Jong wins Leiden Media Contest 15 June 2023
A TikTok by student Loïs de Jong from Leiden University in which Leiden sparkles as a student city won the final of the Leiden Media Contest on 13 Jun...
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Conference unravels the mystery of collecting, preserving and displaying 15 June 2023
Why and how do people collect things? Why does a museum display one object and not another? These questions are at the heart of the interdisciplinary ...
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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience? 15 June 2023
Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on th...
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Leiden University to study historical links to slavery and colonialism 14 June 2023
The Executive Board is launching a one-year preliminary study conducted by a postdoc into Leiden University’s past ties with slavery and colonialism. ...
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Executive Board column: Working on internationalisation with European universities 13 June 2023
Our university recently joined the European university alliance Una Europa. Staff from the 11 affiliated universities met in Leiden last week to discu...
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Stronger together: the Leiden Research Support Network 13 June 2023
The academic playing field is becoming more complex all the time, making a strong research support network crucial. Over 100 research support professi...
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Rein Dool painting to move to more public space in the Academy Building 13 June 2023
The Rein Dool painting depicting board members of Leiden University will be moving soon to the Reception Room in the Academy Building, where more peo...
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections 13 June 2023
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collecti...
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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’ 13 June 2023
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to ...
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How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? 13 June 2023
We can accrue pensions, reinforce dykes and make our homes more sustainable. But how do we make our higher education fit for the future? And what skil...