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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University 17 July 2024An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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Wouter Kalf and Niels van Doesum win a Seed Grant 19 March 2024To support interdisciplinary research on today's world-scale changes and governing challenges, the GTGC programme awards a number of seed grants to sc...
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Caspar Jacobs, Marta Bielinska Winners of Du Châtelet Prize 2023 08 November 2023The Du Châtelet Prize in Philosophy of Physics is awarded annually for previously unpublished work in philosophy of physics by a graduate student or j...
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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate' 06 February 2023Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does...
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Getting your master's thesis published in a prestigious journal: alumni Matthieu did that 27 January 2023After completing one bachelor’s and two master’s programmes at Leiden University, alumnus in Philosophical Perspectives on Politics and the Economy Ma...
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy 07 July 2022University lecturer in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li has been awarded a Veni grant for her research on feminist theories within the B...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant 11 April 2022Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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Lukas Verburgt wins KNAW early career award 23 November 2021Dr. Lukas Verburgt, guest researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and...
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Suzanne Bloks wins Leiden University MA Thesis Prize 08 March 2021What is the best electoral system for a democracy? First place at the Leiden University Thesis Awards 2021 is for those who have added a cleverly subs...
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Philosophy student Eline van Slijpe wins J.C. Baak Prize 16 February 2021Eline van Slijpe wrote her Master of Philosophy thesis on intergenerational justice: does the current generation have obligations towards future gener...
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Lotte Fikkers wins Faculty Teaching Prize 2020 02 September 2020Lotte Fikkers, university lecturer in English literature, received the Faculty Teaching Prize at the opening of the faculty year. ‘She is clearly very...
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Victor Gijsbers new fellow of Leiden University Teachers’ Academy 15 October 2019Victor Gijsbers, university lecturer in Philosophy, has been chosen as a fellow of the Leiden University Teachers' Academy. Over the next five years a...
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Frank Chouraqui wins Faculty Teaching Prize 13 September 2019Frank Chouraqui, University Lecturer of Philosophy, received the Faculty Teaching Prize during the Opening of the Faculty Year in the City Auditorium....
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Tim Meijers receives a Veni for research into obligations to future generations 23 July 2019What do we owe to future generations? And how do we fairly share the costs of complying with these obligations , knowing that the world is full of ine...
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These are the seven Veni laureates of Humanities 17 July 2019No less than seven scholars of the Faculty of Humanities were awarded a Veni grant. Veni grants are aimed at excellent researcher who recently obtaine...