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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored' 13 March 2023What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lec...
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field' 02 March 2023Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in...
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Alumnus Jonathan works with Ukrainian refugees: ‘They still have a smile on their face’ 24 February 2023When alumnus Jonathan Katzman started his master's programme in Russian and Eurasian Studies, he didn't foresee how useful those skills would be in th...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers 31 January 2023From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war 23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas' 20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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From a second-year project to an academic paper: ‘It was such a cool opportunity’ 17 November 2022It does not happen very often that a research project for a second-year bachelor's course gets turned into a proper academic paper. But International ...
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’ 10 November 2022For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin ...
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns 24 October 2022This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It...
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LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant awarded to two researchers 18 October 2022Anke Smits and Lucien van Beek have been awarded a Praesidium Libertatis Grant this year. Smits is an assistant professor at the LUMC and Van Beek at ...
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Tijmen Pronk creates MOOC: 'It is our responsibility to share knowledge' 13 October 2022What actually goes into the development of a massive open online course, a MOOC? University lecturer Tijmen Pronk developed the course 'Introduction t...
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize 13 October 2022University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’ 07 October 2022Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline rece...
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant 04 October 2022Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on lan...