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Professor Maarten Kunst’s coronavirus year: ‘Stressful, but more efficient’ 18 March 2021
In mid-March 2020, the global coronavirus outbreak changed everything in the Netherlands. Staying at home as much as possible and the 1.5 metre rule b...
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The coding sociologist John Boy developed Textnets: software to make large amounts of text visually comprehensible 17 March 2021
Software development is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sociologist. Three years ago, John Boy began developing hi...
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Research Team Globalizing Palliative Care complete 14 March 2021
The project officially started in September 2020, but with the enrolment of PhD students Hanum Atikasari and Shajeela Shawkat the research team of the...
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Alice Twemlow named professor by special appointment of the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at University of Amsterdam 11 March 2021
Alice Twemlow has been named professor by special appointment in the Wim Crouwel chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visu...
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Femke van de Griendt: ‘Dutch is so much more than just spelling the letters d and t’ 05 March 2021
Femke is a third-year student of Dutch Language and Culture. She was a board member for a year, did an internship in times of COVID-19, and above all ...
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High level appointment for EIBL alumnus Martin Richardson 04 March 2021
Martin Richardson, who graduated in 1997 from what was then the Leiden LLM Programme in European Community Law (now: Leiden Adv LLM European and Inter...
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New tenure track: understanding and engineering microbial metabolism for health and sustainability 01 March 2021
On 1 March, Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski will start on a tenure track position at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). With a focus on the natura...
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Maintaining Order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia 16 February 2021
On 21 January 2021, Fachrizal Afandi defended his thesis ‘Maintaining Order: Public Prosecutors in Post-Authoritarian Countries, the case of Indonesia...
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ACPA appoints new academic director 16 February 2021
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who hel...
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Martijn Ridderbos reappointed vice-chairman 11 February 2021
Martijn Ridderbos has been reappointed vice-chairman of the Executive Board of Leiden University by the Board of Governors.
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KHMW appoints five new Leiden members 10 February 2021
The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) has appointed five new members from Leiden. Annetje Ottow, Carsten de Dreu, Pancras Hoogen...
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Building land tenure systems: The political, legal, and institutional struggles of Timor-Leste 10 February 2021
Bernardo Almeida will give a webinar on Building land tenure systems in Timor-Leste on February 18, 2021, from 15.30 - 17.00. This webinar is organise...
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa 09 February 2021
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two...
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New Executive Board at Leiden University 09 February 2021
Leiden University has a new Executive Board. Since 8 February 2021, Annetje Ottow has been the new President and Hester Bijl the new Rector Magnificus...
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis 08 February 2021
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies ...