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Ab de Jong new academic director of LIAS: ‘Feels like home’Ab de Jong, professor of Comparative Religion, was appointed as the new the academic director of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) with eff...
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Carel Stolker to retire: donate to the Leiden Empowerment FundsCarel Stolker will retire as Rector Magnificus of Leiden University on 8 February. As a retirement gift he is setting up a fund for first-generation s...
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça MachelMozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the right...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and rewardA better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyThijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal H...
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Alumna Natacha Harlequin: ‘When it really matters, I’m a lion’She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawye...
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‘The COVID-19 crisis just goes to show how things can go wrong’Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmacy at University College London (UCL). As a female scientist of colour, she was initially reluctant to play an ac...
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Record number of PhDs despite coronavirusIn 2021 a record number of researchers obtained a PhD at Leiden University. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the number of PhDs conferred was 448, on...
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaireRector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and ...
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Sara Polak: 'We have seen a failed attempt at a revolution'A flood of news reports, push notifications and even extra news broadcasts: on Wednesday, the world was shocked by the storming of the Capitol in Wash...
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Social Advisory Council thinks along with the Faculty BoardOpening doors to society: that is the aim of the Social Advisory Council, which has recently been established by the Faculty of Humanities. The dean a...
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‘It’s a complete stalemate in Belarus’What with coronavirus, the American elections and the Brexit botheration, we had almost forgotten that something miraculous happened in 2020: the repr...
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Work in the time of the coronavirus: ‘I miss the processions'How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we...
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Zoom available for teaching from 22 January onFrom 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to ...
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2020 Hall of fameIn 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.