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‘Liberal American foreign policy was always entangled with illiberal interests’ 25 July 2022
American foreign policy in the period after the Second World War is often characterised as liberal. This is, however, not the full picture, argues uni...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships 20 July 2022
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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Jos Raaijmakers nominated for Huibregtsenprijs 2022 19 July 2022
The research project of Jos Raaijmakers is nominated for the Huibregtsenprijs 2022. The researcher of NIOO, with a guest appointment at the Institute ...
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ERC Award for Mariska Kret bringing science to the zoo 18 July 2022
Mariska Kret, Professor in Cognitive psychology has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Public Engagement with Research Awards 2022. Kret...
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Political scientist Juan Masullo awarded Elise Mathilde Fund/LUF grant for research on public attitudes towards the mafia 14 July 2022
Juan Masullo (Leiden University Institute of Political Science) receives a grant from the Elise Mathilde Fund/Leiden University Fund to conduct his re...
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Leiden research projects awarded NWO Open Competition grants 14 July 2022
Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanitie...
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Halima Bouras goes to the US with a Fulbright grant for research 12 July 2022
Halima Bouras leaves for the City University of New York with her Fulbright scholarship. 'I am very happy with the Fulbright grant and excited to cont...
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Liesbeth van Vliet honoured with Heineken Young Scientists Award 12 July 2022
Leiden health psychologist Liesbeth Van Vliet receives recognition for her research on doctor-patient communication and its influence on quality of he...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers 11 July 2022
Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Vidi grant for Esther van Ginneken for research into violence in prisons 07 July 2022
Why do violent incidents occur in prisons? And how do staff respond? Assistant Professor Esther van Ginneken will use a grant from the NWO Vidi Talent...
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Newscheckers wins European Citizen Award 07 July 2022
The fact-checking initiative Nieuwscheckers has won the Dutch round of the European Citizens Award. This prize is awarded annually to projects and ini...
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Veni grant for research on ‘lost pearl’ in Buddhist philosophy 07 July 2022
University 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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Winners Meijers PhD positions 2022 05 July 2022
Each year, Leiden Law School makes two Meijers PhD positions available to talented researchers. One position is open to participants in the Pre-PhD Pr...
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Antibiotics of the future: looking for a new way to kill bacteria 04 July 2022
Current antibiotics only address very few target proteins in bacteria to kill them. Researchers know that there are more possible target proteins to t...
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins 04 July 2022
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lectur...