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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Wrap-ups and recordings of the Leiden University Libraries & Elsevier seminars on Reproducible Research
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in partnership with Elsevier hosted a series of online seminars on the challenges involved in achieving reproducibility in research. The seminars aimed to identify best practices that can help to overcome central challenges around reproducibility, and to convey several…
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Working together in the Leiden Healthy Society Center: ‘It’s only when you make your research visible that you find each other'
As coordinator and lead promoter respectively of the Leiden Healthy Society Center, psychologists Sandra van Dijk and Anke Klein use interdisciplinary collaboration to resolve the major health problems of the present day. How are they going to do that in the coming period?
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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‘Jasper is the dean Leiden Science needs’
Two deans: one leaving and one just arriving. Paul Wouters was deputising at the Faculty from March up to December. As of January he returns to his 'ordinary' role as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. Jasper Knoester is taking over from him, as he will be leaving Groningen for Leiden. How did…
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Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we are also realistic.'
The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.
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How does the government spend taxpayers’ money fairly?
Public procurement is not a hot topic for the average citizen. That’s a pity, says PhD candidate Erik Plas, who did research on the fair spending of public money: 'If a council project goes completely haywire, because it costs more than expected, it could even mean that local taxes will have to be r…
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Educational adventures in the tropics: discovering rainforests in Borneo
Photographing fluorescent flowers, searching for frogs and shooting tropical cucumbers out of trees: this is only a small part of the course Tropical Biodiversity and Field Methods. For this class, master’s students biology traveled to Malaysian Borneo for two weeks to gain experience in fieldwork.…
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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Jonathan Hak on the paramount importance of the truth – and why we shouldn’t always take images at face value
Hak, lawyer, international imagery law lecturer, and adjunct associate professor, talks about his PhD research on the use of images in international criminal prosecutions. He was a public prosecutor in Canada for over 30 years and dealt primarily with the prosecution of homicides and other major cri…
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the police and the municipality. An extremely important issue to students − if the 100 places being claimed as soon as the symposium was announced was anything…
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Andrea Evers’ role in the new Executive Board of PsychologyAndrea Evers’ role in the new Executive Board of Psychology
The new Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology became effective on 1 February 2022. Scientific director Andrea Evers tells us where she gets her energy from.
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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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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Young NeurolabNL community kickoff event
Networking Event
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Christmas Carol Concert at Leiden University
Arts and culture
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Psychology Connected: Work, Pressure or Pleasure?
Conference
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A new impetus for EU enlargement?
Lecture, Seminar
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How to Work for Peace: A Dialogue with Dionysius Mintoff, the ‘Father of Peace’
Debate, Fireside Peace Chats
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force
Lecture
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War
Lecture, China Seminar Series event
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Ethnicity and endogeneity in the welfare state
Seminar
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ReCNTR Launch
Festival
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Migration policy of the European Union: what lies ahead?
Lecture, Seminar
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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LUCAS PhD Alumni Network Event 2022
Alumni event, Job market Preparation for PhD's
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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Neither ‘Revisionist’ nor ‘Status Quo’, both Statist and (Neo-)liberal Institutionalist: China’s Comprehensive Participation Approach in International
Lecture, LPEG research seminar
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How to use local talent in standing up for climate solutions?
Roundtable discussion
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Stability in unstable times: how the European Central Bank handles inflation
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
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A glimpse into my research between Bayesian Optimization and Mechanics
Lecture
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Forces and Symmetries in Cells and Tissues
PhD defence
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International Law and Governance of the Arctic in an Era of Climate Change
PhD defence
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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FGGA Academia in Motion get-together
Debate
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
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International Symposium 150 years New Waterway
Conference, Symposium
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“Mobile” Afterworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao Dynasty
Lecture, also on line with Zoom
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Lecture by Michael Mazarr on 'Deterring China: Challenges and Opportunities'
Lecture