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University Council chair : ‘You have to be patient but you really can make a difference’
The university elections are approaching. Are you going to represent student and staff interests this coming year? University Council chair Pauline Vincenten gives a peek behind the scenes at student and staff participation at Leiden University. ‘I get so much energy from collaborating with the students…
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Why biology students and teachers value the E-learning skills platform
Students of the Biology minor course Molecular Design have successfully boosted their skills in collaboration, research and writing with the recently developed E-learning Skills Platform. The biology students and their teachers greatly value the initiative. ‘Sometimes I couldn’t believe what progress…
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Change manager Frans de Haas is working on the future of the MI
Frans de Haas started his work at the MI with a clear mandate. Listening and talking are what he will mainly be doing ‘My role is to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in the new situation.’
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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Introducing: Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls
Bruno Allahissem and Luca Bruls recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO-funded project 'Digital warfare in the Sahel: popular networks of war and Cultural Violence', led by Mirjam de Bruijn and Jelena Prokic (LUCL). Below they introduce themselves.
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Assessor talk: Ebrar Kaya succeeds Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens as assessor
Participating in discussions as a student, at an administrative level? Jonatan Wirix-Speetjens has done so for the past two years as assessor of the Faculty of Humanities. Ebrar Kaya will take over the position of assessor starting this September. In this interview we look back and ahead at the asse…
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Michiel and Jort: best friends, political rivals
With the Dutch general elections just around the corner, it’s not always easy when political differences exist within your circle of friends. How do you not lose sight of each other in political discussions? We asked best friends Jort Schaafsma and Michiel van der Velde, both students at Leiden Law…
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery)
Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, scientists, civil servants and other professionals discussed how South Holland can become healthier. The Healthy Society Map makes it clear where there are…
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MIRD student Ricardo: ‘Students can change the world’
During International Student Week, from 14 to 18 November, we would like to put our international students into the spotlight. Ricardo Alexandre de Jesus Vaz (21) from Portugal is in his first year at FGGA and a student in the Master International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD).
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How e-coaching helps people with chronic kidney disease to live more healthily
An e-coaching programme helps people with chronic kidney disease, particularly in areas that patients themselves want to work on. ‘A healthy lifestyle is important for patients with kidney disease: it can slow down the loss of kidney function and there will be fewer complications,’ Katja Cardol explains…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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How Brexit is bringing policymakers and researchers closer together
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This time he…
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An app to help children overcome anxiety
Anke Klein and her team have devised a fun and useful app to help anxious children. In the app, children can upload a video of themselves showing, for example, something that went well for them and share their success with parents, granny or grandad. Developmental psychologist Klein talks about the…
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Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Thinking about Resilience and Adaptation to Digital, Social, and Natural Challenges: responses and ideas from Latin America and the Caribbean
Workshop
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Do societal promises influence patent value? An analysis of inventions in artificial intelligence
CWTS Seminar
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Webinar "THE ATTENTION SWITCH"
Alumni event
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Video screening and dialogue Neurodiversity Pride Day
Video screening
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Just Public Algorithmic Systems – What does it take?
Lecture
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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How to use local talent in standing up for climate solutions?
Roundtable discussion
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Managing group work
Didactics
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Next Generation Bacitracin
PhD defence
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LIBC Colloquium
Lecture
- Kick-off brainstorm: new master’s programme in Environmental Humanities
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
- Get to know the new assessment system Ans
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Booklaunch 'Security Studies: An Applied Introduction'
Lecture, Paneldiscussion
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Rhythms of resilience: Individual differences in genetic and environmental effects on brain development
PhD defence
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Policing in the US: What’s Feminism Got to Do with It?
Lecture
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Book Launch - The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
Lecture
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Filling an Accountability Gap? How a Standing UN Investigative Mechanism Would Further International Criminal Justice
Conference
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Disability Support System workshop
Lecture, workshop
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Exploring Web Archives
Lecture
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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Campus The Hague Career Event 2024
Course, Career Event
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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Prioritizing Global Responsibilities: The Ethics of Global Priority-setting
Lecture
- Liveable communities – Liveable Planet
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Finding Your Way (In and Out of the Art World): A Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Lecture
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The LeiCNS-PK3.0 model development and applications: Healthy-to- diseased CNS pharmacokinetic translation
PhD defence
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Una Europa workshop: help shape the future of doctoral training programmes
Workshop
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, Center of Computational Life Sciences
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NWO Vidi 2023 pre-proposal information meeting
Information briefing
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NWO Veni 2023 pre-proposal information meeting (webinar)
Information briefing
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Violence and Transformation: The Political Economy of Russia’s War against Ukraine
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Teaching in Practice (UTQ module)
Didactics