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Documentary film alumna Visual Ethnography on show at Pakhuis de Zwijger02 May 2023Wilke Geurds graduated from the Visual Ethnography master's programme last year with her intimate and vulnerable documentary 'F*ck Endo. More than jus...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’12 April 2023After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both ...
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity04 April 2023The Netherlands and Japan share a long and unique history with knowledge exchange playing a leading role. And knowledge exchange still proved to form ...
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Playing bingo and walking with senior citizens for research into social cohesion03 April 2023Playing bingo and Dutch shuffleboard and going for walks with senior citzens is regular fare for Marieke van der Heijden, a master’s student in Cultur...
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Bart Barendregt on Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity07 March 2023Bart Barendregt explains his new Unesco Chair in Anthropology of Digital Diversity in an interview on the Unesco website. The work of this chair falls...
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Photo report: Bachelor Open Day at the Pieter de la Court Building28 February 2023On Saturday 25 February, the Pieter de la Court Building opened its doors for many future students during the Bachelor Open Day. These potential socia...
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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything’27 February 2023‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting re...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’27 February 2023The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Five years ago, Recep fled from Turkey; he is now a university teacher24 February 2023For fifteen years, Recep Uysal carried out research on positive psychology in Turkey; it is even the subject of his PhD. That was until he had to flee...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes23 February 2023How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Roosmarijn Goldbach and Matija Čuljak win FSW Thesis Prizes 202208 February 2023The master thesis: for many students it is a true crowning glory. Some theses are truly excellent. Those are rewarded with the FSW Thesis Prize. This ...
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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands03 February 2023BrainTrain: an initiative from Leiden University in which a team of students visit high schools to make adolescents more resilient against disinformat...
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'31 January 2023Applications are now open for the Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’ (12 - 23 June 2023) for Master-level an...
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An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?Reportage 20 December 2022The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary natur...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...