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‘My internship has taught me to look around me a bit more sometimes’
Public Administration student Iris did an internship at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. During her internship, she dealt with election accessibility.
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Luuk van Roozendaal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2021
In the 2020 presidential elections, voters in several, mostly southern, electoral districts of the United States saw ‘their’ polling stations closed by the local authorities. In order to cast their vote, they had to travel further or use the mail ballot. Media reports and civil rights activitsts often…
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Heritage expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage
Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got caught up in the study of historical vernacular buildings in northeastern Turkey. Now her focus lies on the impact of climate change on cultural heri…
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A quick call about the war in Ukraine: ‘Did Putin underestimate his opponent?’
The war in Ukraine has lasted almost two weeks now. What does Putin expect to achieve with his invasion and how big is the chance that the West will get involved? We phoned André Gerrits, professor and expert on Russia.
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Astronomers see birth cluster of galaxies in early universe
An international team of astronomers has discovered a large reservoir of hot gas in the cluster-in-formation around the Spiderweb Galaxy. Based partly on that hot gas, the astronomers predict that the cluster-in-formation will grow into one of the largest objects in the universe. A step closer to discovering…
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Team with staff from Leiden wins important open science prize
A team including staff from Leiden University won the Open Initiative Trophy on 11 February, a prize for the best open science initiative in the Netherlands. The winners developed Reprohak, a hackathon-like event where participants repeat research to see whether the results were reproducible.
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How do parents’ brains react to feedback about their child?
Parents appear to be extremely sensitive to feedback they receive about their child. Just how sensitive depends on the (‘rose-tinted’) glasses through which they look at their child. All this can be seen in the brain. Neuroscientist Lisanne van Houtum and her Leiden colleagues published on this issue…
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Leiden resident Ewine van Dishoeck wants to give something back to the city
In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. The preparations are in full swing, so we would like to give you a look behind the scenes. This time we talk to Ewine van Dishoeck. She is the driving force behind the annual programme at the Faculty of Science. As far as she is concerned, there…
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Interview with Markus Davidsen on his Comenius project
Assistant professor Markus Davidsen has received the Comenius grant, with which he wishes to improve secondary education on religion. In this interview, he will tell more about the content of his project and its aims.
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Child Friendly Justice European Network and Leiden's Child Law department signs MOU
Memorandum of Understanding Signed Between the Child Friendly Justice European Network and Leiden Law School - Child Law Department
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The environment: victim and initiator of armed conflict
The Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding is set to take place between 19 and 21 June at the Wijnhaven building in The Hague. During the conference, over 400 participants from across the globe will come together to discuss the relationship between the environment and armed co…
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Kate Bellamy: ‘Exciting to put P'urhepecha community in touch with written heritage’
Many members of Chicago's P'urhepecha community did not even know they lived a stone’s throw from some of their own historical heritage. Researcher Kate Bellamy organised a meeting to introduce them to books hundreds of years old.
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Important collection of topographical images of the Netherlands available in Digital Collections
Castles, monasteries and bridges, but also city profiles, history prints and water management works. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) manages one of the most important collections of topographical images in the Netherlands. The collection, bequested to UBL by Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872)…
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Documentation of International Symposium What Methods Do
The International symposium on artistic research methods organized by ACPA and the Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC), in coordination with Fontys Tilburg and SAR– took place on 9th April, 2024 at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. The recordings are now online at whatmethodsdo.com.
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Hopeful insights on climate and biodiversity in LDE white paper
A banker who puts making money second and makes a profit nonetheless. A farmer who stops ploughing and using insecticides but still has a good harvest. A new white paper by Leiden-Delft-Erasmus and Naturalis Biodiversity Center shows how the meeting of disciplines provides solutions to climate change…
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Migrants cost European governments less than their own citizens do
Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. This is the conclusion of research by economists from Leiden University.
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Migrants cost European governments less than their own citizens do
Migrants are far less of a burden on the budget of European countries than is often thought. This is the conclusion of research by economists from Leiden University.
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Our ties with Israeli universities
Leiden University has recently received various petitions from students and staff concerning our ties with Israeli universities. We have also held extensive discussions with the University Council in response to questions raised on the subject. We think it important that our partners and research projects…
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Document your fieldwork for social media outreach
Research
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Ecology PhD student wins Dutch award for investigative journalism
PhD student and research journalist Sebastiaan Grosscurt won a Tegel in May. In the data category, Grosscurt and his colleagues won the prestigious Dutch journalism award. 'For me, ecological research and journalism are two ways of achieving the same thing.'
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area
How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in and around The Hague. The website Sustainable The Hague makes it easy to find a sustainable shop, restaurant or community initiative in your local area…
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Planet-forming discs around young low-mass star differs fundamentally from one around sun-like star
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers, including Leiden Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck, has discovered a palette of hydrocarbons in a planet-forming disc around a young, low-mass star. The results confirm that discs around very lightweight…
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A quick call with Caroline de Ruijter about the Kiem grants for interdisciplinary collaboration
Be it in climate change, public health or artificial intelligence, when different disciplines join forces, science often flourishes. The new small-scale Kiem grants will enable Leiden researchers to explore or start collaborative projects with colleagues from other faculties. ‘So seek each other out…
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Conference ‘Leiderschap onder de loep’
Conference
- SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
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The X Factor: Open Access, New Journals, and Incumbent Competitors
Seminar
- The multi-scale and multi-lingual circulation of knowledge an empirical study of the available data sources in Latin America
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Can predicting the future help us to make better decisions about our health?
Lecture
- Symposium on collaboration and decompartmentalization. How do we connect science and practice?
- Putting the open engagement of societal actors into practice
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Standing up for science workshop
Course
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Fixing the Outcomes of Transparency: Data Context and the Concentration of Explanatory Power.
Lecture, Research Seminar
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LIBC Publieksdag Brein & Recht
Conference
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Jewish families in late antiquity parables
Lecture, Public Lecture
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CEES/ReCNTR Screening: Morality is Good
Arts and culture
- Webinar | City Diplomacy: Framework or Patchwork?
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Does the welfare entitlement of immigrants change the admission preferences of natives?
Lecture
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A Waste of Woodblocks: Publishing Humour in Late Ming China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Do societal promises influence patent value? An analysis of inventions in artificial intelligence
CWTS Seminar
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In the Making #4: Marcel Cobussen, MinJi Kim, Kevin Fairbairn and Nele Möller, Ecology and (Sounding) Art
Lecture, Conversation
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
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In the Making #3: Kristoffer Gansing and Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR), Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Lecture, Conversation
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PrAIa Hackathon Easing Teaching
Course, Hackathon
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2024
Conference
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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Cyber Persistence Theory: redefining national security in cyberspace
Lecture
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PhD Training: How to write for academic journals?
Training
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Connecting the Dots: The Role of Internationally Mobile Scientists in Linking Nonmobile with Foreign Scientists
Seminar