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Pieter Slaman moved by the LUS Education Prize: ‘The most beautiful prize there is’ 07 October 2024‘What more could I want?’ University and education historian Pieter Slaman is still deeply touched to have been awarded the LUS Education Prize for be...
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Why rules don’t work for some of the population 16 September 2024Excessive regulatory burden causes economic harm and can undermine trust in government. Policymakers wishing to ease this should be more mindful of pe...
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‘As a government official, you are one of those buttons to turn’, according to researcher Mathilde Witkam 12 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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‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’ 27 May 2024Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always rema...
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How the United States used threats to influence foreign nuclear programmes 18 April 2024Presenting Saddam Hussein’s fate as the future or raising sanctions to unprecedented levels; these are just some of the threats the United States used...
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Surprising results of research on counterterrorism: ‘Assumptions surrounding Trump may be wrong’ 27 March 2024It was pouring rain when Alexander Gallo received his diploma from West Point Military Academy. A bad sign, people said back then. It was June 2001, t...
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FGGA in 2023: This was the year of our faculty 13 December 20232023 was another year full of highlights and special moments for the faculty of Governance and Global Affairs. Find out what the year was like in this...
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Fifteen years of Dual PhD Centre: ‘The programme is solid as a rock’ 05 December 2023December marks the 15th anniversary of the Dual PhD Centre (DPC). Director Johannes Tromp and associate professor Mark Dechesne look back and ahead. D...
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‘Think what you want to do about international students before developing your housing policy’ 09 November 2023Students used to live with a landlady or even with the professor whose course they were taking. Student accommodation has since become more profession...
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FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty 22 December 2022We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and ...
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Being able to host international organisations by taking that extra step 22 November 2022The number of international organisations has increased over the last decades. As has the number of cities interested in housing these organisations. ...
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Conversation leads to understanding: influence of peer-educators on thoughts about LHBT persons 09 September 2022A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the...
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Video: Is the hypersonic rocket system the new super weapon? 01 June 2022Missiles that travel at approximately six thousand kilometres per hour, up to 5 or 6 times the speed of sound. Has Russia used those against Ukraine a...
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No one knows if regulation makes the chemical industry safer 24 March 2022The government spends millions regulating companies that work with large quantities of hazardous substances. But we don’t know whether this is making ...
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education 15 February 2022Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti wer...