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A shared path to well-being: ‘Someone has to be the first to say: let’s do things differently’ 04 April 2024How do we offer students a helping hand without losing sight of our own well-being? This was the question that study advisers, lecturers, deans and st...
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A quick call with Margaret Gold about citizen science 04 April 2024April is the month of showers and tulip fields but did you know that it is also Global Citizen Science Month? And the future of our Leiden citizen sci...
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A staff exchange with your European peers: ‘Everyone could benefit from this’ 03 April 2024Fancy seeing how your job is done at a university abroad? Project Managers Christina Schlüpen and Jeannette de Wolf from the Leiden Institute of Chemi...
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Floor van Meer receives news Trial & Error Award 28 March 2024Psychologist Floor van Meer won the first Trial & Error Award for her research on the effect of being distracted while eating on eating behavior. This...
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How can we banish racism from education? 28 March 2024A safe haven for students, more bicultural staff and more powers for diversity officers. In a national expert meeting at Campus The Hague, administrat...
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The Top 450 is growing: entry number 50 published 27 March 2024We have reached our first milestone: the 50th Top 450 entry has now been published. In the run-up to the university’s 450th anniversary in 2025, we ar...
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The lessons we can learn from leaders of colour 26 March 2024With diversity and inclusion, organisations too often focus only on cosmetic change. ‘Interview bias training alone is not enough’, says Distinguished...
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Executive Board President Annetje Ottow on fighting racism: ‘It’s the responsibility of all of us’ 26 March 2024‘We may have taken steps together, but there is still much to do in the fight against racism and discrimination’, says Annetje Ottow, President of Lei...
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Digging and tilling at the Hortus botanicus: SEA Community Garden officially opened 26 March 2024Eight university vegetable patches will soon join the display at the Hortus botanicus. The sun shone down on almost 40 enthusiastic students and staff...
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Ronald Giphart writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn 25 March 2024Writer in residence Ronald Giphart will explore a number of his own fascinations with Leiden students.
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Towards a crisis resilient society 25 March 2024Pandemics, terrorist attacks, environmental disasters... These are real threats, which we cannot ignore. In fact: we need to prepare better for the la...
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‘Maybe interdisciplinarity could function as a way to change the university’ 25 March 2024This year, in a three-part symposium series, we are exploring how interdisciplinary collaboration can be promoted at the university. In the second ses...
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Junior multidisciplinary workshop on Migration: three reasons why you should attend 25 March 2024The Economics Department at Leiden University is pleased to announce a junior workshop focusing on The Economic, Social and Political Effects of Migra...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers 25 March 2024The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Leiden University and University of Edinburgh to deepen collaboration 22 March 2024Joint masters and PhD programmes. A research and teaching hub. A delegation from the University of Edinburgh recently visited Leiden University to dee...