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ERC Starting Grants for five young researchers from Leiden University 03 September 2020
The ERC Council has awarded Starting Grants to five promising Leiden researchers. With an impressive three laureates, the Faculty of Social and Behavi...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde spends Heineken Young Scientist Award on science vlogs 07 July 2020
She considers herself lucky. She talks about the research projects she has ended up in and a network like the Young Academy Leiden (YAL). Van Duijvenv...
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Margot van der Doef first Leiden psychologist to hold Senior Teaching Qualification 06 July 2020
'Continuing to work on my professional development is inspiring and stimulating, and it’s rewarding to have an influence on how psychology is taught.’...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde receives Heineken Young Scientists Award 29 June 2020
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award 2020 in the Social Sciences to developmental ...
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Shirley van der Maarel and team ‘Samen Verder’ granted Speckmann Awards 2020 17 June 2020
Bachelor’s students Dana Huisman, Marleen Kop, Sam Wichers Schreur and Adriënne de Zoeten were granted the Speckmann Award for their Fieldwork NL repo...
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Dr. Anouk de Koning awarded with Urban Citizen Fellowship 29 May 2020
Cultural Anthropologist dr. Anouk de Koning has been awarded the Urban Citizen Fellowship to carry out research about democratisation of local democra...
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Aspasia grant for promising researchers in psychology 19 May 2020
Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Stefanie Meeuwis, and Eliška Procházková have all been awarded a share of the Aspasia diversity grant obtained by Mariska K...
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Atlas Award for a CWTS study on research priority setting 18 May 2020
Tommaso Ciarli and Ismael Rafols received the Atlas Award from Elsevier for their research on research priorities and societal demands.
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Political scientist Nikoleta Yordanova awarded NORFACE Network research grant 12 May 2020
Nikoleta Yordanova, a political scientist at Leiden University, will lead an international research consortium funded by the European NORFACE Network ...
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Fabiola Diana and Liza Cornet win FameLab Leiden pre-round 30 April 2020
The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...
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Rubicon grant for pain researcher Aleksandrina Skvortsova 14 April 2020
Aleksandrina Skvortsova has been awarded a Rubicon grant by the NWO. She will use it to conduct research at McGill University in Canada into whether m...
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CADS alumna Shirley van der Maarel wins Leiden University Thesis Prize 2020 20 February 2020
Shirley van der Maarel won the Thesis Award 2020 with her thesis 'Terra Incognita'. Van der Maarel graduated summa cum laude for the master's speciali...
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Gisela Hirschmann awarded Harvard research fellowship 28 January 2020
Political scientist Gisela Hirschmann (Leiden University) has been awarded a fellowship at Harvard University. During the 2020 Spring semester she wil...
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Faculty prizes & New Year's speech 14 January 2020
At the FSW New Year’s reception 2020, the Faculty honoured prize winners Claire Vergerio, Shirley van der Maarel and Camila Espinoza Chaparro raised ...
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Three writers win the Peter van Straaten Psychology Prize 10 January 2020
Three novelists have won the first Leiden University Peter van Straaten Psychology Prizes: Esther Gerritsen, Yvonne Keuls, and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld...