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Quality of master’s programmes assessed in new guide21 March 2024The Air and Space Law (Advanced LL.M.) master’s programme at Leiden University is among ten ‘excellent master’s programmes’ at Dutch universities. Thi...
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Monica den Boer installed as professor by special appointment Police Studies: ‘The blue line in my life’18 March 2024Ideally, she would like to do everything, but as an academic she feels most at ease. Monica den Boer, who has decades of experience within police and ...
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Reconnecting and Reimagining: The MIRD Re-Connect Gala 202412 March 2024On 17 February 2024, Leiden University's Scheltema building was abuzz with the energy of the annual MSc International Relations and Diplomacy (MIRD) R...
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Six questions about the new minor ‘The (un)just society’12 March 2024The new minor ‘The (un)just society’ will start in September 2024. This interdisciplinary minor will provide an in-depth and applied view of social ju...
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Honours College FGGA kicked off a new year: ‘Students choose Honours because they like the courses’12 March 2024A new batch of students, a grant and a new course: there is much to celebrate for the FGGA Honours College, which welcomed new students on Tuesday 5 M...
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At LUC, the Hague Forest is a classroom: ‘Students develop themselves as local nature guides’01 March 2024Rain or shine: in the course ‘The Ecology Project’ students of Leiden University College visit the nature of The Hague each week. A welcome break from...
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Why do vulnerable groups miss out on benefits? Research nominated for thesis prize19 February 2024Why do vulnerable groups fail to make use of benefits that they are entitled to? This is what Max ten Velde researched in his Master’s in Management o...
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Leah wins FGGA thesis award: ‘I was able to be creative in my research’01 February 2024Every year during the Dies Natalis, the Leiden University Thesis Prizes are awarded. Each faculty selects its best thesis for this purpose. FGGA's bes...
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Exploring Leiden University College: A personal journey with alumna Georgina Kuipers29 January 2024It has been just over a decade since the first students graduated with Leiden University’s unique Liberal Arts and Sciences Bachelor degree. We caught...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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‘My internship changed my view of the public sector’16 January 2024Hidde studies Public Administration and did an internship at the Kennemerland safety region. During his internship, he conducted research effective co...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202319 December 2023Connecting worlds, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdiscipli...
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‘My internship has taught me to look around me a bit more sometimes’12 December 2023Public Administration student Iris did an internship at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. During her internship, she dealt with elec...
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Leiden University College: Another quality seal for one of Europe's top Liberal Arts and Sciences programmes06 December 2023For the eleventh time in a row, Leiden University’s unique Liberal Arts and Sciences programme has been awarded the ‘Top Rated Programme’ quality seal...
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Fifteen years of Dual PhD Centre: ‘The programme is solid as a rock’05 December 2023December marks the 15th anniversary of the Dual PhD Centre (DPC). Director Johannes Tromp and associate professor Mark Dechesne look back and ahead. D...