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‘Technology shouldn’t shape our future; we should’
Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let ourselves be caught off guard. That is the message of Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science in his inaugural lecture on 21 May. ‘We don’t talk…
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Seminar: POPNET Connects with David Schoch
Lecture
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Campus Den Haag hosts 'On Campus' Experience Days
Last Saturday, Wijnhaven Campus and the Anna van Buerenplein were the setting for the first 'on campus' Experience Days in The Hague since the restrictive measures in higher education were introduced in March 2020. Spread over the day, some 200 students visited the campus to delve deeper into the 3…
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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Our government should be more resilient
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many challenges. This makes it all the more difficult to make important decisions about pensions or the climate. Research and good education can help meet the challenges…
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
Lecture
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Supermassive Black Holes and Where to Find Them
Lecture, Oort lecture
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LUC Student Wins Nobel Peace Prize Essay Competition
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…
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CCLS Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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At LUC, the Hague Forest is a classroom
Rain or shine: in the course ‘The Ecology Project’ students of Leiden University College visit the nature of The Hague each week.
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Psychology Lab on Wheels with serious game for recognising emotions
Festival, Citizen Science
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Florence Nightingale Colloquium
Lecture, colloquium
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Liveable planet lecture & drinks - Mobilizing the Dutch climate research community to accelerate system transitions
Lecture
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
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Do we have a standard model of cosmology?
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Hanneke Hulst discusses blind spots and the importance of collaboration
Hanneke Hulst explaines how she is trying to bridge the gap between science and health care. ‘For a neuroscientist to actually contribute to solutions for patients, you have to work across disciplines.’
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Liveable Planet Lunch Series “A Forest of Knowledge – Investigations on foraging cognition in tropical forest foragers”
Lecture
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Zooming in on Black Holes with a telescope the size of planet Earth
Lecture, Kaiser Spring Lecture
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Liesbeth van Vliet honoured with Heineken Young Scientists Award
Leiden health psychologist Liesbeth Van Vliet receives recognition for her research on doctor-patient communication and its influence on quality of healthcare. Van Vliet has been awarded one of four Heineken Young Scientists Award 2022 for promising young researchers working in the Netherlands.
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Zeineb Romdhane: Student and Minister for New Democracy
A shadow cabinet has just been formed. This one consists of students from all the Dutch universities. They will be keeping politicians on their toes in the coming year, and want to show that progress cannot be made without academic research and teaching. Master’s student Zeineb Romdhane is Minister…
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Richard Karlsson Linnér: ‘I expect a future where a genetic test will be as much a no-brainer as getting X-rayed.’
Assistant Professor Karlsson Linnér, who works at the Department of Economics, is one of the recipients of a Veni grant. His research on the accuracy of preventive genetic testing is a fine example of the intersection of economic science and law.
- MoodLift: improve your well-being with free online programmes
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‘The child protection system really isn’t in good order’
Last Thursday the Dutch House of Representatives held a debate on children being put into care when the childcare benefits scandal (toeslagenaffaire) had caused problems for their families. Four Leiden University academics were asked by the House to produce a fact sheet for this debate, bringing together…
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Ineke Sluiter: ‘Accessibility, diversity and inclusion are a matter of doing the right thing’
For two years, Ineke Sluiter was president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Now, she is returning to the university full time. ‘I always carry themes like accessibility, diversity and inclusion with me.’
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Bibliometric Data Sources and Indicators (online)
Research
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New master’s in Population Health Management
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Leiden University will start a new two-year English-taught master’s programme in Population Health Management (PHM) on 1 September 2021. The programme, which has been given the green light by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO),…
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A healthy start for all
Many children have an unhealthy diet and do not get enough exercise. Sanne de Vries wants to help everyone get a healthy start in life.
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant
Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to Maia Casna, enabling her to study respiratory disease in the past. ‘My hypothesis is that the rapid formation of cities in the medieval Netherlands, must…
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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands
How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society Center, a new partnership between the Municipality of Leiden, Leiden University and many other partners in the city.
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To arrange before departure
To arrange before departure
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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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Ministry and Leiden Law School to work together more closely
The Ministry of Justice and Security and Leiden Law School are planning to collaborate on a more structural basis. This is the outcome of a meeting that took place at the Academy Building in Leiden on 19 October. Those present at the meeting included the Minister for Legal Protection, Franc Weerwind,…
- Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2023
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‘I’m like a kid in a candy store with all these disciplines’
Professor of cardiology Douwe Atsma (LUMC) looks beyond the traditional boundaries of hospitals and healthcare institutions for solutions to increasing pressure on the current healthcare system.