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Fieldwork in Leiden 16 June 2021
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, stud...
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The power of compliments for young people, by young people 16 June 2021
After receiving positive feedback from peers, socially anxious young people feel as confident about themselves as their non-anxious counterparts. 'The...
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Call for Participation: Winter School Digital Visual Engagements in Anthropological Research 15 June 2021
The ERC consolidator project "Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale" will organise...
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‘Teaching a robot to fry an egg isn’t as easy as you’d think’ 15 June 2021
‘AI can’t do half as much as people think,’ says computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn. He tries to teach robots seemingly easy things, an...
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Psychology lab embraces open science 14 June 2021
‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...
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Developing your own self-image and choosing the right study programme 14 June 2021
How you think about yourself is important for the choices you make. Adolescents are faced with choosing a study programme that will determine their fu...
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Call for Participation online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures 07 June 2021
Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic i...
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CADS student contributes to SOMO research report that is being picked up by international media 02 June 2021
Doing an internship at a research organisation and contributing to a report that is subsequently picked up by the national and international media. Wh...
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Why the western world was too late to respond to Covid 01 June 2021
Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook 31 May 2021
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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Five questions about the research programme Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations 28 May 2021
The research teams have been set up, collaborations have been initiated, projects kicked off, the first start-up grants have been received and the web...
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What you see is not what you get: things that are not visible are worth studying 26 May 2021
Things that are not visible are also important and worth studying, according to cultural anthropologist Sabine Luning, cultural historian Paul van de ...
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3 tips for creating a fabulous science pitch 25 May 2021
Are you interested in creating a fabulous science pitch? Neurospyschologist Liza Cornet - winner of the National Famelab Science Pitching Competition ...
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Test certificate could help reopen society, but at what cost? 19 May 2021
On 11 May the House of Representatives voted in favour of a law that will enable some sectors to reopen sooner than planned with the aid of test certi...
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New Owada chair in Leiden and Tokyo 17 May 2021
The universities of Tokyo and Leiden are installing a rotating chair named after Professor Hisashi Owada. The Owada chair will focus on interaction be...