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Vici grant for Anouk de Koning for research on Prototyping Welfare in Europe 15 March 2022
Across Europe, neighborhoods, schools and community centers are turned into living labs to experiment with “doing” the welfare state differently. Leid...
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers 15 March 2022
Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced on Tuesday. Two of the researchers wor...
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia 09 March 2022
Indigenous communities are often perceived as intrinsically cohesive, cherishing shared values, and united by common interests. The ‘tribes’ of South ...
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New interdisciplinary research centre 'ReCNTR' to reflect on multimodal practice 08 March 2022
Francesco Ragazzi (Institute of Political Science), Julian Ross (Center for the Arts in Society) and Mark Westmoreland (Institute of Cultural Anthropo...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science 07 March 2022
What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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5 universities joining forces with the Netherlands School of Anthropology (NESA) 24 February 2022
Wednesday 23 February 2022 the NESA Netherlands School of Anthropology) has been officially launched with the first Masterclass by Prof. Marja Spieren...
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‘Poorer people often bear the brunt of sustainability initiatives’ 21 February 2022
The effects of sustainability projects on poorer, marginalised people should be considered at a much earlier stage. This is the opinion of Marja Spier...
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’ 16 February 2022
For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can o...
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Can Russia be stopped? 14 February 2022
Tensions are rising between Russia and the West. Can an invasion of Ukraine and an international war be avoided? Political scientist and Russia expert...
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How Google, Facebook and other digital platforms are influencing the work of journalists 09 February 2022
Journalism is a rapidly changing profession. Digital journalism is transforming the way in which information and communication technologies are used b...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University 03 February 2022
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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‘Let pupils actively engage with texts to improve their reading comprehension’ 03 February 2022
Young Dutch people’s reading skills have been declining for years. The main reason for this is that many have difficulty with reading at greater depth...
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Why do we like winners so much? 03 February 2022
Hardly anyone in the Netherlands ever watches skeleton racing. But we’ll soon be glued to our TV sets when ‘our’ Kimberley Bos slides down the track a...
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society 02 February 2022
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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Podcast: Prosocial Behaviour and Exclusion 01 February 2022
In this episode we talk with Mara van der Meulen about prosocial behaviour and social exclusion in children. Van der Meulen also explores the role of ...