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Jeroen Romeijn wins Best Paper Award at ECPR 201811 October 2018The Convenors of the Standing Group on Interest Groups and the ECPR 2018 Section Chairs, have announced the winners of the best paper awards.
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From ideals to actions at the international One Young World summit09 October 2018Thinking up solutions for global issues such as environmental pollution and poverty. This is what young people from all over the world will be doing a...
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Criminologen plaatsen vraagtekens bij beroemde levenslooptheorie08 October 2018How do perpetrators of notorious crimes integrate in society after their imprisonment? Marieke Liem and Daan Weggemans investigated this in in-depth i...
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The Hague scientists on the foiled Russian hacker attack05 October 2018The Military Information and Security Service (MIVD) prevented a Russian hacker attack on the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OP...
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‘Woolly’ King's Speech reflects broad coalition19 September 2018
The 2018 King's Speech was a string of statements containing little or no substance. It was obvious that, in an attempt to keep all the coalition part...
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What makes peace sustainable?17 September 2018‘Realising we have shared ancestors and that our past is dynamic makes us more accepting of others.’ Sada Mire is an archaeologist at Leiden Universit...
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‘More microplastics in the environment than stars in the Milky Way'11 September 2018Microplastics are everywhere: in the ocean, in cooking salt and even in animals. Should that worry us? 'Yes,' said environmental scientist Thijs Bosk...
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Meet & Greet with Mayor Krikke06 September 2018Thursday 6 September mayor Krikke came to Leiden University to have a dialogue with students. Mayor Krikke thinks students bring a special atmosphere ...
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New BA Urban Studies: How to keep cities liveable04 September 2018By 2050, 70 per cent of the world's population will live in cities. This has major consequences for the lives of city-dwellers and for the environment...
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Festive opening of the college year in The Hague: strong ambitions for the new year31 August 2018How can we make sure that The Hague becomes even more of a city of education and knowledge? This was the theme during the festive opening of the colle...
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‘I now know where the locals eat in The Hague’21 August 2018During the HOP week, new students in The Hague get to know the city, their study programme and - most important of all - one another. In 2018, The HOP...
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Opening Beehive Student Centre in The Hague16 August 2018The new student centre in The Hague, the Beehive, will be opening its doors in stages starting from 1 October. The name Beehive was chosen because it ...
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‘A politician doesn’t always have to hold the moral high ground’16 August 2018Politicians, public servants and administrators are increasingly expected to be holier than the Pope. This is not necessarily a positive development, ...
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‘I take my students with me up the mountain’14 August 2018It's good to have high expectations of your students, says public administration lecturer Maarja Beerkens. ‘But I don't stand at the top of the mount...
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Bringing an album full of photos to Leiden University College13 August 2018Leiden University College is buzzing with life again. On 13 August, this year’s new crop of students moved into their rooms. For more than two hundred...