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Prisoner reentry programmes do not work as they should 20 June 2024
For a successful return to society, incarcerated individuals must work on their reentry during their sentence. But in practice, not all such individua...
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‘Transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations lead to better scholarship and solutions’ 20 June 2024
How can you persuade researchers who are used to conducting research within clearly defined disciplines to adopt an interdisciplinary approach? Newly ...
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means 20 June 2024
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does i...
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John Boy awarded Fellowship Grant at NIAS 19 June 2024
John Boy will be an Urban Citizen Fellow for the next academic year with his research project Urban Citizenship and Emerging Critical Technical Practi...
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Postgraduate training helps lecturers develop 19 June 2024
Jamie Korporaal, who started as a junior lecturer at Leiden Law School during her master's studies and has now joined the faculty as a lecturer, will ...
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Mees Vergouwen wins dissertation prize 19 June 2024
Mees Vergouwen was awarded the ‘Vereniging voor Belastingwetenschap’ dissertation prize on 18 June 2024. He obtained his doctorate in 2023 for his dis...
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From droplets in the freezer to the inception of a potent new antibiotic 19 June 2024
What started as an idea during a social gathering led to an unexpected breakthrough in research on resistant bacteria. Biologists and chemists from Le...
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On barriers and bridges: autoimmune rheumatic diseases and the road to a cure 19 June 2024
Hans Ulrich Scherer is Professor of Rheumatology, in particular Translational Rheumatology. He wants to build bridges between research and clinical pr...
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Alumnus Anne Speckens opened a mindfulness centre in Nijmegen 19 June 2024
Professor of Psychiatry Anne Speckens studied medicine in Leiden and did her psychiatry training there too. She discovered mindfulness in England and ...
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Simona Demkova on ‘Algorithms as Future Decision-Makers’ at the University of Tuscia 18 June 2024
On 13 June 2024, the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) hosted a doctoral seminar in the series 'Law and Artificial Intelligence', organised by the...
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New interview series PARC: composer and sound artist Siamak Anvari 18 June 2024
Siamak Anvari (Tehran, 1981) is a composer and sound artist based in the Netherlands. Three weeks prior to his PhD defence on 25 June and the presenta...
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Professor and Knight: Joke Bouwstra Receives Royal Honor 18 June 2024
A memorable farewell symposium and a royal distinction: Professor Joke Bouwstra could not have completed her career at Leiden with more pleasure. On F...
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Sharing insights about paths and careers as philosophy graduates 18 June 2024
Last month, Symposion, the study association for Philosophy students, organised this year's student-alumni career event. Four alumni joined the event ...
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Nico Schrijver appointed Interim Chair of Netherlands Institute for Human Rights 17 June 2024
Nico Schrijver, Professor Emeritus of Public International Law, has been appointed Interim Chair of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights. He wil...
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Third Congress of Members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration 17 June 2024
Between 12 and 14 June, Professor Larissa van den Herik and Dr Mamadou Hébié participated in the Third Congress of the Members of the Permanent Court ...