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Sleutelbos vast als je alleen over straat loopt? ‘Veel vrouwen zijn altijd alert’ 08 December 2022A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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An EU with a higher EQ 07 December 2022How do you increase the EU’s EQ so that citizens and countries feel a greater sense of belonging and safety in the EU, and the countries work better t...
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What Leiden University is doing about gender inclusion 06 December 2022Leiden University wants to be a safe and inclusive learning and working environment for all its students and staff. In an interview with XperHR HR kno...
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Sustainability Report 2021: continuing to reduce our CO2 footprint 06 December 2022Leiden University continued to reduce its carbon footprint in 2021 by being more careful with natural resources and making structural reductions to it...
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' 06 December 2022It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversit...
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Call for Papers 'Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds' 05 December 2022We are living through an age in which social media platforms have given way to entirely new forms of politics and politicking. It is no exaggeration t...
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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues 05 December 2022That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body) 05 December 2022A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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Lifelong Learning and Development: University launches Academy for Professionals project 01 December 2022The Academy for Professionals project started in November. The project will focus on further developing existing and new educational programmes for pr...
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Improving student reading comprehension through interactive texts 29 November 2022The program FeedbackFruits allows you to add online questions and discussion topics to a text. This helps them better understand the course material a...
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Executive Board column: Spui building is a magnet for interdisciplinary collaboration 29 November 2022This month the University and several partners signed the rental contract for the brand-new Spui building. What will this location mean for the future...
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‘If you want to resolve the big challenges in healthcare, you have to work across disciplines’ 29 November 2022Marieke Adriaanse is Professor of Behavioural Interventions in Population Health and researches behavioural science issues in health. She advocates fo...
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’ 28 November 2022As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey,...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa 25 November 2022‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia 25 November 2022A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...