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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days' 19 November 2024
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been...
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KWF funding for research on culturally sensitive palliative care 06 November 2024
Providing good information to patients is crucial, especially in their final phase of life. Not all patients want to receive full details about their ...
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Sophie Starrenburg elected as member of Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture 04 November 2024
In October, Sophie Starrenburg was elected as a member of the Coordinating Committee of the ESIL Interest Group on the International Law of Culture. S...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’ 04 November 2024
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Mehmet Kentel wins the OTSA Yavuz Sezer Prize 04 November 2024
Mehmet Kentel has been named co-winner of the prize, which is given out yearly by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, for his article “Ruin a...
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Rebekka Grossmann awarded Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship for research on the effects of migration on Cold War visual culture 30 October 2024
What does forced migration have to do with the way a humanist aesthetics was forged after World War II? A Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellows...
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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation 28 October 2024
This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almo...
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Sara Polak: 'I want to know if what social media is doing to the political game in the US is unique' 28 October 2024
Political games have existed throughout history, but what is the role of 'play' in the way the American political world has developed? University lect...
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika? 24 October 2024
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of ...
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize 24 October 2024
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
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Vidi grant for The Future of Dying 24 October 2024
Amidst the growing availability of advanced life-lengthening medical interventions, both healthcare professionals and patients are recognizing that le...
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Mark Lindenberg and Ieke van Dam winners of the Metje Postma Awards 23 October 2024
'Echoes of the Silent Roots' by Mark Lindenberg wins the Multimodal Incentive Grant for Alumni of the Metje Postma Awards. His film is a touching auto...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Master’s students Brechtje de Jong and Ilse de Weert win KNMP Studentenprijs 2024 22 October 2024
Brechtje de Jong, a Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences master’s student, and Ilse de Weert, a Pharmacy student, have won the KNMP Studentenprijs 2024. They r...
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Nina Schmal wins Political Science Master’s Thesis Prize 2024 21 October 2024
Successfully completing a master’s thesis in Political Science is no small feat. Not only is this for most students the most extensive and in-depth re...