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Public Administration students write consultancy report for municipality The Hague 10 June 2024
How do you transition from research to advising an organisation? A new twist on the first-year public administration course ‘Integrative project: the ...
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Earth-Space Symposium: 12-13 November 2024 in Utrecht 10 June 2024
The Earth-Space Symposium is set to take place on 12 and 13 November. This year’s symposium will be hosted by Utrecht University and its theme will be...
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Dutch Association for Criminology celebrates 50th anniversary in Leiden 10 June 2024
On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June, criminologists from across the Netherlands and Flanders descended upon the KOG Building for the sixteenth time. Leide...
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Public leadership in a wider perspective: ‘Leadership is for everyone’ 10 June 2024
The field of leadership suffers from ‘adjectivism’, says Professor Ben Kuipers. He immediately caveats this by saying that he too is going furnish the...
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Music to our ears: How playing an instrument affects the adolescent brain 10 June 2024
What impact does growing up in a musical environment or during the COVID-19 pandemic have on the brain development of teenagers? This was the focus of...
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‘High sensitivity is not a clinical diagnosis, but a personality trait you can harness’ 10 June 2024
Do you often feel drained after a day at the office? The new SPS Monitor measures how sensitive you are to various stimuli. Psychologist Véronique de ...
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These tips (might) help you win the Euro football pool 10 June 2024
Are you keen to beat your friends or colleagues and win the European Championship football pool? Statistician Marjolein Fokkema has some tips that mig...
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Presentation of Greek-Dutch dictionary: ‘In the end, you have to decide what to do’ 10 June 2024
After a process of more than two decades, the new Greek-Dutch dictionary was presented on Wednesday 5 June. University lecturer Lucien van Beek acted ...
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Studying archaeological roads gives insights into connectivity and movement 10 June 2024
Archaeologist Tuna Kalayci investigates roads in a recent edited book. What happens if we think of roads not only as containers of action but also as ...
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‘The sun is dying out’ as a wake-up call for better science communication 07 June 2024
‘Take science communication more seriously.’ This is the message that Ivo van Vulpen, professor by special appointment in Science Communication in Ph...
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Planet-forming discs around young low-mass star differs fundamentally from one around sun-like star 07 June 2024
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers, including Leiden Professor of Molecular Astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck, h...
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Working together on the plastic problem: how to keep citizens engaged? 06 June 2024
What motivates citizens to participate in a citizen science project on plastic pollution? And does that motivation change over time? Liselotte Rambonn...
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Europa Lecture by Iyiola Solanke on ‘A decolonial approach to research and teaching in EU Law’ 06 June 2024
On 24 May, Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law and Fellow of Somerville College, gave the ...
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Twan Huys lecturer Journalism and New Media 06 June 2024
Television presenter and journalist Twan Huys will be a lecturer in Journalism and New Media at Leiden University from 1 September 2024.
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Smart monitoring of test subjects is the future of clinical research 06 June 2024
Knowing whether or not a treatment is working just by wearing your watch? Data scientist Ahnjili ZhuParris has identified a lot of opportunities for t...