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‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’ 21 November 2024If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...
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Antibodies against rheumatic diseases tested directly on patients 20 November 2024Leiden Professor of Translational Rheumatology Hans Ulrich Scherer has one foot in the clinic, where he helps patients, and the other in the lab, wher...
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Valerie Frissen wins Lifetime Achievement Award 18 November 2024On 10 October, Valerie Frissen was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Internet Society Foundation. The professor by special appointment rec...
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UNICEF Student Team Leiden: ‘We all have our own role to play here at Leiden University’ 18 November 202420 November 2024 is World Children's Day. To mark this occasion, the UNICEF Student Team Leiden is organising a lecture on children's rights. We spoke...
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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’ 18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Why cultural anthropology and development sociology? 18 November 2024If you've ever wondered why people behave the way they do or how societies work, studying cultural anthropology and development sociology could be for...
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‘A safe city starts with good education and robust policing’ 14 November 2024It is more myth than reality that people with migration backgrounds commit more crime. Leiden has successfully tackled anti-social behaviour by Morocc...
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Join the protest against the higher education cuts 13 November 2024Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a...
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‘Leiden could raise its profile as an AI expert’ 13 November 2024‘In the field of AI, Leiden is still a relatively unseen university,’ says Thomas Dohmen. The brand-new Director AI Collaboration Center, would like t...
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Recap of the LHSC Knowledge Café on Father Involvement 12 November 2024On 8 October, the Leiden Healthy Society Center organized an inspiring Knowledge Café about the role of fathers in raising their children. Fathers pla...
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Research: Verbal abuse and clip around the ear common in Caribbean Netherlands families 11 November 2024People from the Dutch islands of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius say that violence (mainly verbal) is fairly common in families. This is according to...
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KWF funding for research on culturally sensitive palliative care 06 November 2024Providing good information to patients is crucial, especially in their final phase of life. Not all patients want to receive full details about their ...
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Food as a powerful way to understand social reality and its dynamics 30 October 2024Framing Poland through the lens of post-socialism, as is common in the social sciences, has become outdated. This label no longer captures the rapid c...
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New research to get young people back into reading for pleasure 30 October 2024Young people are more likely to find long texts unappealing to read, particularly with all the digital distractions. To improve young people’s reading...
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Sustainability Monitor 2023: Leiden University substantially reduces carbon emissions 28 October 2024The Sustainability Monitor 2023 shows that Leiden University is taking its sustainability efforts seriously. It is working on a greener campus and to ...