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736 search results for “social sciences contact” in the Staff website

• Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more News - 27 November 2023

  When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that Dutch people are labelling events in increasingly broad contexts as violent.

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  Femke Reidsma Postdoc / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  f.h.reidsma@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Chris Verhoeven Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  verhoeven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274069

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  Patrick Degryse Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.a.i.h.degryse@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aleksandrina Skvortsova Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.skvortsova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• OSCoffee: From Paywalls to Precedent - Open Science for Law Event - 21 May 2025

  Lecture

• Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives News - 20 September 2022

  In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…

• Bart Custers discusses fake news on facial recognition at Jumbo News - 9 September 2024

  Misleading social media posts are falsely claiming that the Dutch supermarket chain Jumbo uses facial recognition at self-service checkouts. Jumbo denies this, although it has launched trials with AI cameras to combat shoplifting without using facial recognition.

• Bart Custers comments on Telegram’s catalogue of crimes News - 13 September 2024

  Instant messaging app Telegram is not faring well in the news – the reason being the illicit activities occurring on the platform. Professor Bart Custers helped Dutch current affairs programme ‘EenVandaag’ respond to questions about the platform.

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  pnieuwenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271983

• OSCoffee: Enabling Open Science through research data management support Event - 18 June 2025

  Lecture

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  Carlijn Bergwerff Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.e.bergwerff@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Mandy de Wilde Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.de.wilde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ruthie Pliskin Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.pliskin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276762

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  Brenda de Groot Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.de.groot@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Floor van Meer Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.f.van.meer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Verena Ly Senior policy adviser

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  v.ly@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Franz Wurm Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.r.wurm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jeshua Tromp Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.j.tromp@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xiaochen Zheng Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  x.zheng@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jaap Corthals Duale promovendus

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.corthals@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589

• University working hard to create a safer work and study environment News - 26 November 2024

  Since the demonstration over a year ago on the Wijnhaven campus, Leiden University has developed plans and initiatives to create the safest possible work and study environment for our university community. The Executive Board would like to explain what has happened since and what else we can expect…

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  Zsuzsika Sjoerds Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  z.sjoerds@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275437

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  Rodrigo Ochigame Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.ochigame@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

• The danger of unregulated online communications News - 8 July 2025

  Social media gives people a voice but also fuels online hate, especially against marginalised groups. PhD candidate Eva Nave: ‘While end-to-end encryption protects activists, it also enables criminal activity, creating a more accessible version of the Darkweb.’

• Junior multidisciplinary workshop on Migration: three reasons why you should attend News - 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 Migration, which will be held Friday 19 April 2024, at the Gravensteen in Leiden.

• ‘You get the impression that Elon Musk is acting based on personal motivations’ News - 20 December 2022

  It increasingly seems that Elon Musk has taken it upon himself to decide what can and cannot be said on Twitter. He bought the platform with the message that there would be room to say whatever you desired, but he himself is casting doubts on that principle.

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  Katharina Riebel Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

  k.riebel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275149

• Open Science Week at FSW: Think before you submit Event - 25 September 2025

  Festival

• Hub for Impactful and Engaged Research launched News - 24 February 2026

  The Hub for Impactful and Engaged Research is a new collaboration that brings together five leading educational institutions in the province of Zuid-Holland: Leiden University, the LUMC, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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  Niels van Willigen Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  willigen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• New publication on fairness, AI and recruitment News - 18 April 2024

  Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga have published a new article that offers an insightful and critical literature review on fairness and AI in the labour market as part of the BIAS project.

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  Juan Masullo Jimenez Assistant professor/guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.masullo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ News - 27 February 2023

  The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.

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  Femke Bakker Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.e.bakker@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276188

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  Francesco Ragazzi Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  f.ragazzi@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jan Melissen Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  j.melissen@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009581

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  Charles Berger Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  c.e.h.berger@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Karsten Lambers Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  k.lambers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Bart Custers about extremists on Telegram News - 19 December 2024

  Extremist users of Telegram are moving en masse to other chat apps, such as the anonymous SimpleX. In this way, they hope to avoid detection, now that Telegram founder Pavel Durov is going to share personal data of criminal users with authorities.

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  Iman Goudarzi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

• Weekend of Science Event - 4 October 2025

  Festival

• Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers News - 23 February 2023

  Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.

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  Simon Otjes Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  s.p.otjes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273946

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  Aleksandra Khokhlova PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.khokhlova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Jelena Belic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.belic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Tom Theuns Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.j.h.theuns@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275069

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  Denny van der Vlist Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.m.d.van.der.vlist@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Hilde van Meegdenburg Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  h.van.meegdenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275093

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  Nikoleta Yordanova Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.yordanova@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003843