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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library12 September 2024Explore the new Middle Eastern Library, Listen to speed lectures by experts, watch a brand new documentary about the restoration of an 11th-century me...
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Changing power relations and rising starsConsortium secures grant for 18 PhD positions to investigate international role of EU 12 September 2024The norms, institutions and power relations that have defined the last decades of international political and economic relations in the European Union...
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‘As a government official, you are one of those buttons to turn’, according to researcher Mathilde Witkam12 September 2024We spoke with Mathilde Witkam about her research as a dual PhD candidate at the Dual PhD Centre. Her dissertation is about the effect of open governme...
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this11 September 2024Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD ca...
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Erik Bähre on Dutch radio about the last wild Indian10 September 2024An extraordinary encounter took place in 1911. American scientists discovered the last 'wild' Indian, from the Yahi tribe, who had lived in total isol...
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From judge to police officer: a lack of understanding for deaf people in legal proceedings10 September 2024The cultural linguistic minority group of deaf people who communicate using sign language systematically experiences limited access to fundamental rig...
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Social environment can improve investigations into child sexual exploitation10 September 2024The prevention, detection and investigation of child sexual exploitation can be improved by involving neighbours, classmates and other people within t...
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High attendance at Kirchheiner Conference on ‘The Ombudsman & the Rule of Law’10 September 2024On Thursday 29 August 2024, Leiden University hosted the conference on theme of ‘The Ombudsman & the Rule of Law’. More than 100 participants from pro...
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Earlier treatment of PTSD symptoms in women staying in the women’s shelter in Amsterdam at LUBEC Leiden09 September 2024Many women in women’s shelters suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to the expertise center affiliated with Leiden University ...
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Emotions in the courtroom: research into how victim impact statements affect judges09 September 2024In court, victims of violent crime and sexual offences are permitted to comment on the defendant’s guilt and the sentence to be imposed. But legal exp...
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‘Digital services lean heavily on the social infrastructure’09 September 2024Governments worldwide invest huge sums in their digital services and data strategies. Efficiency and effectiveness are key. But these are not achieved...
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Prepared for pain? The impact of the nocebo effect on people with chronic pain09 September 2024People who have negative expectations about a treatment actually experience more pain. Merve Karacaoglu discovered in her PhD research that anxious an...
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‘Our future depends on funding for education research’09 September 2024Higher education research improves the quality of education. And these investments more than pay for themselves in terms of well-being and prosperity....
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During the next pandemic, this mathematical model will speed up the search for treatment09 September 2024Do you recall all those drugs that were hastily proposed as potential treatments for COVID-19? In the event of a future pandemic, the goal is to offer...
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NWO grant for research on new type of global organisation05 September 2024To what extent can global issues be solved by multistakeholder collaboration, a relatively new type of organisation? Jan Aart Scholte, the coordinator...