News
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Executive Board column: ChatGPT, threat or opportunity? 07 February 2023
ChatGPT, the text-generating chatbot, has recently become available for anyone to use. Some people are thrilled, but others less so. In the past few w...
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Bruno Verbeek: 'If your teaching is going well, you have to innovate' 06 February 2023
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Qualification in Education (SKO) this year. University lecturer Bruno Verbeek is one of them. What does...
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Adolescents experience how susceptible they are to fake news with VR glasses and rubber hands 03 February 2023
BrainTrain: 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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Saxion students visit the Faculty of Archaeology 02 February 2023
The end of January arrived together with welcome guests from Saxion University of Applied Sciences. As a part of their two-day-long visit to South Hol...
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Tom Groot Haar works for Foreign Affairs: ‘every important issue comes by our desks’ 31 January 2023
Working as a diplomat for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: for many students it would be their dream. Alumnus Tom Groot Haar is busy making it a reali...
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance' 31 January 2023
Applications 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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Thesis prizes for Bettina Schmiedler and Till Steinkamp 30 January 2023
Leiden Law School has awarded two students from the Van Vollenhoven Institute’s Master in Law and Society prizes for best thesis.
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Daniël Vredenberg: ‘You can really make a difference as intern’ 30 January 2023
Daniël Vredenberg did his master’s internship at the communications department of the Rijksvastgoedbedrijf. In this interview, he talks about his inte...
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From politics to psychology: the power of games and play 25 January 2023
The Bachelor Honours Class 'Homo Ludens: Why We Play' combines games, theory, and practice. Students dive into all aspects of humanity in which games ...
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Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’ 19 January 2023
It is the largest database for space ice yet: The Leiden Ice Database for Astrochemistry: LIDA. Created by astrophysicists at the Leiden Observatory, ...
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Students remain ‘very satisfied’ with their degree programme in 2022 18 January 2023
Almost 3,000 students from the Faculty of Humanities completed the National Student Survey (NSE) in the spring of 2022. With a response rate of 38%, t...
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Honours Class on inequality: 'Focus on the big issues’ 17 January 2023
At the end of December, the concluding lecture of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Policy and Politics: struggling to combat social inequalities' took plac...
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How to create a balanced lobby register? Researchers develop assessment framework on behalf of Ministry 17 January 2023
How to represent and assess legitimate interests? On behalf of the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations, Caelesta Braun and Bert Fraussen ...
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Final project of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (minor CSSC) 17 January 2023
On 14 December 2022, students of the course Social and Ecological Activism in the Visual Arts (as part of the Creative Strategies for a Society in Ch...
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Ten lecturers obtain Senior Teaching Qualification 17 January 2023
On 12 January ten driven lecturers obtained their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO). Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them in the Academy...