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University to strengthen collaboration with The Hague University of Applied SciencesLeiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences are going to increase their teaching and research collaboration. They signed a collabor...
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Creating a safer work environmentTwo new studies have shown that university staff can be the victim of harassment from their managers or colleagues. Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker sa...
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ERC President Jean-Pierre Bourguignon visits Leiden UniversityStorm clouds are gathering for the European grants for ‘excellent’ research. Researchers therefore need to explain how important these grants are. Thi...
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Anxiety traits are visible in the brainQuestionnaires or concentration tasks can be used to screen for anxiety, but so too can EEG recordings – at least indirectly. The frequent mind wander...
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Two major teaching grants for Leiden lecturersStudying with an app and exploratory learning in large groups. Two educational innovations that will be possible thanks to the Comenius Programme of t...
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Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC to intensify collaborationErasmus MC, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Delft University of Technology wish to structurally intensify and upscale their academic collaboration, p...
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‘Students describe my module as an emotional rollercoaster’Thanks to Ian Cook’s ‘Who Made My Clothes?’ MOOC, thousands of students have researched where their clothes come from. How does this geographer from t...
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University election resultsThe results of the 2019 University elections have been announced. New representatives will be joining almost all participation bodies – faculty counci...
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Confidential Counsellors for PhD candidates: specific help for a specific groupPhD candidates have a unique role at the University. They spend four years working on their own research, and are supported in this by a supervisor. B...
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Podcast: A plunge into the cesspits of LeidenArchaeologist Roos van Oosten is studying Leiden's medieval cesspits. And on the basis of her work she reaches a surprising conclusion: the Middle Age...
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Canal Run raises over €22,000 for charityA respectable 5,023 runners took part in the Leiden Canal Run on Friday 5 April. They raised the sum of €22,302 for various Leiden charities.
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of EcologyProfessor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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Over 50 citizen science ideasFrom how litter spreads to which languages are spoken in Leiden and The Hague: over 50 interesting, surprising, complex and entertaining questions wer...
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Confidential Counsellors for PhD candidates: how they can helpIt is a fantastic opportunity to spend four years working on your PhD, but you may come up against problems that don't relate to the research itself. ...
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Eleven percent of staff click on fake phishing mailDid you spot our fake phishing mail? At the start of March, over 3,000 staff members were sent an email asking them to log in with their ULCN account....