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Democracy under pressure worldwide: 'Türkiye is a textbook example of how countries become autocracies' 05 April 2024
What is the state of democracy in developing and transition countries in 2024? Terrible, according to the BTI Transformation Index: only 63 out of 137...
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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’ 04 April 2024
How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and st...
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A quick call with Margaret Gold about citizen science 04 April 2024
April is the month of showers and tulip fields but did you know that it is also Global Citizen Science Month? And the future of our Leiden citizen sci...
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A staff exchange with your European peers: ‘Everyone could benefit from this’ 03 April 2024
Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemi...
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Coffee with Gert Renkema: ‘We are the fastest growing faculty at Leiden University’ 02 April 2024
Twice a year, Gert Renkema, Head of Financial and Economic Affairs at FGGA, offers us an insight into all that is going on around FGGA's finances. Wit...
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How can we banish racism from education? 28 March 2024
A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrat...
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The Top 450 is growing: entry number 50 published 27 March 2024
We have reached our first milestone: the 50th Top 450 entry has now been published. In the run-up to the university’s 450th anniversary in 2025, we ar...
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024
It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...
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The lessons we can learn from leaders of colour 26 March 2024
With diversity and inclusion, organisations too often focus only on cosmetic change. ‘Interview bias training alone is not enough’, says Distinguished...
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‘I think an internship is the best way to prepare yourself for a professional life’ 26 March 2024
Luis from Germany is a third-year bachelor’s student Security Studies. During his elective space, he did an internship at the German Ministery of Labo...
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Executive Board President Annetje Ottow on fighting racism: ‘It’s the responsibility of all of us’ 26 March 2024
‘We may have taken steps together, but there is still much to do in the fight against racism and discrimination’, says Annetje Ottow, President of Lei...
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Digging and tilling at the Hortus botanicus: SEA Community Garden officially opened 26 March 2024
Eight university vegetable patches will soon join the display at the Hortus botanicus. The sun shone down on almost 40 enthusiastic students and staff...
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Ronald Giphart writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn 25 March 2024
Writer in residence Ronald Giphart will explore a number of his own fascinations with Leiden students.
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’ 25 March 2024
This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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Junior multidisciplinary workshop on Migration: three reasons why you should attend 25 March 2024
The Economics Department at Leiden University is pleased to announce a junior workshop focusing on The Economic, Social and Political Effects of Migra...