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A future based on Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability, rather than economic growth
How can society let go of its obsession with economic growth and focus on goals as wellbeing, inclusion and sustainability? This is one of the core questions which a new 3 million euro European project will tackle the upcoming four years. Leiden University researcher Rutger Hoekstra is project coordinator…
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Leiden University is travelling to the past and the future for its 450th birthday
Leiden University is celebrating its 450th anniversary in 2025 with a feast for the eyes, ears and spirit. The anniversary year opens with an extra special Dies Natalis on 7 February. Highlights includes an alumni festival, three exhibitions and a canal concert.
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'The bachelor Public Administration made it easier for me to understand complicated topics'
Nienke Weijermars studied Public Administration at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. While doing her bachelor’s, she enrolled in the minor in Journalism and New Media, followed by an internship at Dutch local newspaper Leidsch Dagblad: 'At Leidsch Dagblad, they really had time to teach me…
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique'
Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lecturer Sara Polak has received an ERC Starting Grant to investigate this.
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'Canon of the Dutch Underexposed Past', which…
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Make your research project visible in no time
A webpage for your research project can help with participant recruitment and foster collaboration with fellow researchers or social partners. Creating such a page used to be a time-consuming task, but with the help of AI, the communications team can now build a clear project page much more quickly.
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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Posting preprints: ‘There is no reason not to’
Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been peer reviewed? Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and keen preprint poster Ludo Waltman explains.
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Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’
Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psychology. Their aim: giving the subject a more prominent position in the academic’s mind.
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Eredoctoraten voor Bonnie Honig, Eliot Higgins en Kelly Chibale
Leiden University will be conferring three honorary doctorates in its special anniversary year. They will be awarded to Eliot Higgins, truth finder and founder of Bellingcat, Bonnie Honig, expert in feminist theory and legal theory, and Kelly Chibale, professor of organic chemistry, who works on prevention…
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Rector Magnificus presented with long list of missing Iranians
Hester Bijl, the Rector Magnificus of Leiden University, was handed a ‘shockingly long list’ of names of missing Iranians in her office at the Administration and Central Services department on 13 December 2022.
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'An opportunity to learn new things myself'
Sang-Ah Yoo is a freelance journalist and is following the lateral entry programme Dutch at ICLON Leiden University. She enjoys showing students what language can do for you.
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Communicating about quantum: explanations improve understanding but reduce confidence
Quantum technology has the potential to transform society. But how can you effectively inform the public about such complex and enigmatic science and technology? PhD candidate Aletta Meinsma explored this.
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Lespakket over sterren en hun vele betekenissen
Gratis te downloaden voor het onderwijs: een inspiratie- en lespakket over stervormen hun symbolische betekenis en hun rol in verschillende culturen en godsdiensten.
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Shift in scientific consensus about demise of Neanderthals
It is still unclear how the Neanderthals died out. For long, one theory seemed most likely: the emergence of the highly intelligent Homo sapiens, or modern humans. This competition hypothesis is no longer the dominant theory among scientists, research among archaeologists and anthropologists has shown.…
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Roeland Merks runs a gallery from his home: ‘Science also begins with intuition’
By day, Roeland Merks works on mathematical models that describe cells and complex systems. In the evenings, he opens the door to a different world. In his home and art space De Spelonk, contemporary art, experimentation and curiosity come together — right at the intersection with his scientific per…
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Connect & Visualise: Data journeys in popular science
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Iran at a Crossroads: Protest, Repression, and Europe’s Response
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Social Mobility and Integration of Amsterdam Jews: The Ethnic Niche of the Diamond Industry, 1850-1940
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Robotic reconstitution of cytostatic drugs and monoclonal antibodies: transforming aseptic drug compounding in hospital pharmacies
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Braver Together
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Quantitative Research Assessment and its Unintended Consequences
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Dutch Investment in French: Colonial Resources in the Eighteenth Century
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When and Why People Do Not Make Financial Decisions: Definition, Measurement, and Implications of Financial Inertia
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Quantum computing, norms and polynomials
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Trichome mimics: Sprayable plant-based adhesives for crop protection against thrips
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Extracellular Matrix Mechanics in the Regulation of the early steps of the Metastatic Cascade
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
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Striving for Equity in eHealth
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Faster X-ray Computed Tomography in Real-World Dynamic Applications
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Autism and Family Health: Stress, Eating Behavior and Health in young Children with ASD and their Parents
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Towards a theory of militant constitutionalism
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Towards a universal law governing the international civil service?
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International Law and the Challenge of Disinformation
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De kunst van het vrij zijn: Alexis de Tocqueville en het democratisch ideaal
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Blueprints of Disease: Precision Platforms for Modelling Breast Cancer
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The social ties that bind
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Increasing public perceived legitimacy of the European Union through the integration of psychological insights into law
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization:An International Institutional Law Perspective
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A multifaceted approach to understand cognitive impairment in MS: Exploring the nonlinearity of cognition
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A chemical biology approach to explore lipid metabolism in neurological disorders
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Towards responsible and resilient mineral supply chains, with case studies on cobalt, antimony, and zinc
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To affinity and beyond
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Nanoparticles and Microfluidics for Future Tuberculosis Vaccines
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Teaching, curriculum and purposes of education: Connecting theory to practice
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Collaborative Meaning-Making
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Becoming and Belonging?
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Afforesting with microbes: disentangling the effect of soil biotic and abiotic characteristics on trees using soil inoculation
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