News
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App on Gender Equality Launched at FGW: 'We have to do it together' 14 February 2024Male scientists owe their position to their brilliance, women to their hard work. Or do they? The Equalista app helps staff and students at the Facult...
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund 13 February 2024From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to div...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ 11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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JEDI Fund: ‘We’re now showing clearly that the community is diverse’ 20 November 2023If you have a plan that could improve the education or the learning environment of the Faculty of Humanities in terms of diversity or inclusion, you c...
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Faculty of Humanities joins 'Hidden Disabilities Sunflower' 05 June 2023A hidden disability can make studying a considerable challenge, partly because of the disability itself, but also because others may not realise that ...
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Depot or place of honour: what to do with Nobel laureates in the museum? 01 June 2023What do you do with a museum collection full of individual white Nobel laureates at a time when diversity, inclusion and teamwork reign supreme? Ad Ma...
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Man, woman and more: 'Why does my passport have to say I'm a woman?' 17 May 2023Protests against textbooks on trans persons in America and against a reading hour by drag queens in Rotterdam: it has been raining protests recently a...
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Martina Vijver wins NWO Athena Award for outstanding female researchers 02 December 2022‘She is an example to young researchers who are beginning to find their career path’, wrote the jury of the NWO Athena Award about Professor of Ecotox...
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Alumna Tessa Schiethart: 'If I could go back to my student days, I’d go right away' 26 October 2022That Tessa Schiethart finished her bachelor's degree in International Studies with a thesis on Indonesian women's reasons for veiling was a coincidenc...
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Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’ 13 September 2022A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard wor...
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Diversity in society: ‘We are looking for a new approach to an existing phenomenon’ 04 July 2022What is the best way for us as a society to deal with all the different forms of diversity? Professor Marlou Schrover will use the EuroScience Open Fo...
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Unlocking Diversity Awareness at FestiWell – through an Escape Room Game! 18 May 2022A group of postdoc and PhDs at our Focus on Emotions lab organized an escape room for staff and students to increase their awareness of diversity and ...
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Feeling safe at Humanities: an all-gender toilet in every building 17 May 2022The university is committed to providing an accessible learning and working environment for students and staff. They should be able to feel at home at...
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A constructive discussion about an inclusive Sinterklaas celebration 18 November 2020How can we make Sinterklaas inclusive as a national holiday? And what does this mean for our University community and Dutch society as a whole? These ...
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Saniye Çelik on Dutch NOS Radio 1 News: Acknowledging racism and discrimination is the first step to a solution 05 June 2020Not only the United States but also the Netherlands are faced with 'systemic problems' to do with racism and discrimination, according to Dutch Prime ...