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Public Administration students take a close look at societal issues in Multi-Level Governance 30 May 2023
During the course BBO II: Multi-Level Governance, students learn to make the link between theory and society by completing a challenging practical ass...
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men 26 May 2023
The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected...
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Covid graduates sign their names in the Sweat Room 26 May 2023
A graduation ceremony at your laptop in your student room is a huge anticlimax. Many students who graduated during the pandemic were unable to celebra...
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building 25 May 2023
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networki...
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Executive Board column: Fire, power cut, evacuate... 25 May 2023
We take it for granted that water comes out of the tap and electricity out of the socket. But that isn’t always the case. Last Tuesday began like any ...
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Nearly all buildings at LBSP open and operating again from Wednesday 24 May 24 May 2023
Nearly all university buildings at the Leiden Bio Science Park will be open and operating again as of Wednesday 24 May. Last night a team worked hard ...
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Hague TIX ‘To build a European threat intelligence community’ 24 May 2023
The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) is happening on 12 June 2023. Monica Kaminska, Assistant Professor of International Security and Te...
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Ayo Adedokun launches Future-Ready Coaching Academy 23 May 2023
The academy is designed to promote student well-being and to prepare students for the labour market.
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Debunking myths about the secret services 23 May 2023
In her book ‘Diensten met geheimen’ (‘services with secrets’), Willemijn Aerdts uses true stories to cast light on the operating methods of the Dutch...
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A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration 23 May 2023
Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-sca...
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission 23 May 2023
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. ...
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Registration still open: lecture series on crisis governance starts Friday 22 May 2023
The lecture series on the Dutch crisis governance system will start on Friday. Lector in crisis management at the NIPV (Netherlands Institute for Publ...
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Five questions about the StepTalk ‘Policing in the US: What’s Feminism Got to Do with It?’ 22 May 2023
Police killed Eric Garner 9 years ago (‘I can’t breathe’) when he resisted a search. Now everyone will consent to stops and searches. Law Professor an...
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Interdisciplinary research: labour market on the move 22 May 2023
Migration, globalisation, technological developments, climate change: the greatest challenges of our time all affect our labour market. But how exactl...
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Community support officer bows out: ‘My face on a mug got me known’ 17 May 2023
He was a popular face in the Leiden student world and even developed his own merchandise, but all good things come to an end. After seven years, commu...