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Ramsey Albers wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2022 17 October 2022Each year, supervisors within the Institute of Political Science are asked to nominate exceptional theses for the annual Thesis Prize. This resulted i...
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2022: the nominees 04 October 2022Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is c...
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Bachelor thesis prizes Political Science 2022: the nominees 29 September 2022The thesis is the Grand Finale for our bachelor students. On their way to the finish, they have gathered considerable knowledge and insights, and acqu...
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Five new Teaching Fellows appointed 29 September 2022Max van Lent, Aris Politopoulos, Emily Strange, Claire Vergerio and Astrid Van Weyenberg have joined the Leiden University Teachers’ Academy. Lecturer...
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Researching global inequality in the garment commodity chain 28 September 2022A consortium, led by Erik de Maaker - Associate professor Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, has been awarded 98.000 euro for Localizin...
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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is accompanied by unwanted side...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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Lina van Drunen wins best poster prize at the international Flux Society Congress 21 September 2022At the international Flux Society Congress 2022 in Paris, Lina van Drunen won the prize for best poster with her PhD research on how music influences ...
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Leiden researchers receive Ig Nobel Prize for research into romantic click 16 September 2022Cognitive psychologists Eliska Prochazkova and Mariska Kret from Leiden University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the romantic cli...
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Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau 29 August 2022Emeritus professor Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe received the royal award from the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam for her great contribution to the quality o...
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Psychologists receive grant for social anxiety research 22 August 2022“We are proud and happy to receive this grant. It will enable us to do truly innovative fundamental research with a direct link to practical applicati...
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation 18 August 2022Leiden psychologists receive an Outreach Grant from the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) to talk about facts and fables in their field of research. Marieke ...
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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ 11 August 2022Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral res...
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Mia Thomaïdou with Rubicon grant for research to US 25 July 2022Mia Thomaïdou wants to investigate how criminal courts understand and use the increased knowledge of human behavior. Her Rubicon grant allows for two ...
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Kids become real scientists with Lil'Scientist 25 July 2022Children are perfect scientists: they are bursting with curiosity, they want to know how the world works and they go exploring every day. Yet many chi...