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Photo report Bachelor’s Open Day KOG
On 25 February, the KOG opened its doors once more to welcome a large crowd of people looking to find their perfect study programme during the Bachelor’s Open Day. The aspiring students were welcomed in the various lecture halls where they were able to experience the ins & outs of the available programmes…
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Walter Burkard wins the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 with thesis on climate change
On 10 December Walter Burkard won the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020 for his thesis on climate change and children’s rights. The prize for the best master’s thesis in the field of children’s rights is awarded every year by Defence for Children and the Department of Child Law of Leiden…
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Children’s Rights? Win the Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award 2020
The Jaap Doek Children’s Rights Thesis Award is an annual award for the best thesis in the field of Children’s Rights granted by Defence for Children and the Department of Child Law of Leiden Law School.
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Open Position: Sustainability Operations Coordinator
Are you passionate about sustainability? Do you see opportunities to make Leiden University more sustainable? Are you able to inspire, engage and empower both students and staff? This is your chance to contribute!
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Opening Beehive Student Centre in The Hague
The 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 stands for connection, an individual identity, activity and belonging. This meeting place for students is dedicated to improving the living environment…
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38 ditches of Living Lab officially opened
A better environment starts at the Living Lab. Leiden Scientists investigate the effect of chemical compounds on biodiversity in 38 natural ditches. The official opening took place on 8 June.
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Students speaking about this academic year: ‘It’s okay if one day doesn’t go so well.’
Nearly all students have faced many challenges this academic year. Students Nasreen Javanjoo (Religious Studies) and Marcos Cordova (Literary Studies) talk about their experiences of studying in the time of coronavirus.
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Year in review FSW 2023
In this year in review we show you various projects we're very proud of. Driven by our values at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
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The International Labour Organisation: 100 years 1919-2019
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) was established in 1919 based on the premise that social justice is a condition for lasting peace. On February 2019 the ILO celebrated its 100th anniversary with an international symposium to consider the future of the ILO.
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Registration for SAR conference now open
From Monday 22 February, registration for the yearly SAR conference is open
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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‘Be open to other cultures’
This week more than 400 international students are starting their study programme in Leiden or The Hague. Why did they choose to study here? And what is the advice from their mentors?
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FET Open Grant for Many Photon Entanglement
The Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) is the coordinating partner in the Qluster research project, which was awarded a 2,9 million euro FET Open grant by the European Union. The three-year project, which started on 1 December 2019, aims to produce many photon entanglement to aid quantum communication…
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Opening Museum and research center Paläon
One of the highlights during the fieldwork in Schoningen lead by Prof. dr. Thijs van Kolfschoten in 2013 was the opening of the museum and research center paläon on June 24. To the realisation of the museum, the Faculty of Archaeology made a significant contribution. Many of the results of the research…
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Opening of the 'Bob Wessels Collection'
Friday 26 January 2018 saw the festive opening of the Bob Wessels Insolvency Law Collection. This Collection is a most valuable addition to the present prestigious collection on (international) insolvency and commercial law and will be expanded and kept up-to-date in the coming years.
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Research platform in dunes opened
With the sowing of the last experimental plot, new research platform TERRA-Dunes was officially opened on 29 June 2018. The experiment has a fundamental scientific character, but has important practical applications in nature restoration.
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In pictures: Bachelor Open Day 4 November
Prospective students and their parents or carers turned up en masse for the Open Day on 4 November. More than 10,000 visitors enjoyed a talkshow, various 'theme cafés' and browsed around the information market.
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Change in opening hours around Ascension Day
Many University buildings will be closed on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 May in connection with Ascension Day.
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Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied
From the new street language Smibanese to 17th-century manuscripts: the first national Dutch Studies Open Day explores a wide range of topics. The Open Day will take place on Saturday 7 March in Leiden. Frits Spits will broadcast his radio programme ‘De Taalstaat’ (The Language State’) from the Kamerlingh…
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Opening hours over Good Friday and Easter
On Good Friday (30 March) and Easter Sunday and Monday (1 and 2 April) most Leiden University premises are closed. Both the University Library and Wijnhaven Library will be open on Good Friday and on Saturday 31 March.
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Tom Louwerse
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Lotte van Dillen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Wouters
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Laura Steenbergen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Very Well Visited Start of the ILS Lunch Seminar Series 2019-2020
On Thursday 19 September, the first ILS Lunch Seminar of this academic year took place. Clare Fenwick and Ilya Kokorin gave two very insightful presentations in this very well visited edition of the Lunch Seminars.
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Joni Reef at opening Expertise Centre KIND
Joni Reef was among those present at the opening of Expertise Centre KIND in 's-Hertogenbosch on Thursday 22 November 2018. She spoke to Dutch newspaper Brabants Dagblad afterwards.
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interest from prospective students (and their parents) on Bachelor’s Open Day
Presentations, city tours, themed cafés and information fairs − there was plenty to discover on the Bachelor’s Open Day last Saturday. Around 6,000 prospective students and 4,000 parents visited faculties in Leiden and The Hague to soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it would be to study at Leiden…
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Job opening: PhD candidate
PHD POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF EGYPTOLOGY, NETHERLANDS-FLEMISH INSTITUTE IN CAIRO (NVIC) NVIC is looking for a PhD candidate in Egyptology/History to join its team.
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Caribbean Ties international exhibition opens at Museon
The international travelling exhibition Caribbean Ties will open at Museon in The Hague on Saturday 25 May. It tells the untold story of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and their lives before, during and after European colonisation. Caribbean Ties will be on show simultaneously in 11 countries…
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Registration for 'Politicologenetmaal' 2018 is open
From 7 to 8 June 2018 Leiden will host the annual 'Politicologenetmaal'. Political scientists active in The Netherlands and Belgium will convene in and around the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences to discuss important themes and developments in the field. Registration for this conference is…
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Podcast: How open is our governance culture?
A ‘new governance culture’ – a hot topic for a number of years now. What kind of culture of public administration do we have in the Netherlands and how do you change it? This question is the focus of the podcast Het Spel & De Macht (the Game & the Power). Each episode considers one theme related to…
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First academic publication of LAPP
Springer Water series published the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Fundamental decision on breach of academic integrity
A former employee of Leiden University breached academic integrity. This is the conclusion of the University’s Academic Integrity Committee in its recommendation to the Executive Board on 11 January 2019.
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Koen Caminada reappointed Academic Partner CPB Netherlands
The Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) has reappointed Professor Koen Caminada as Academic Partner for the sector Public Finance, and specifically Government Finance, as of 1 January 2017.
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Eiko Fried in APS on Open Science
Although open science reforms have contributed to a more rigorous and robust psychological science, there is still much to improve. In Association for Psychological Science (APS), Eiko Fried points out two norms that open science reforms may have overlooked so far: communalism and universalism. 'Incorporating…
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National platform launched for academics facing abuse
Academics regularly face threats, intimidation and abuse. The Universities of the Netherlands (UNL), the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) therefore launched the WetenschapVeilig platform on 7 November 2022.
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Master’s Open Day: Explore your options!
On 2 November, more than 800 students visited Leiden's Humanities Faculty to explore their options during the Master's Open Day. Read some of their stories here!
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Job openings: assistant professors in International Relations
Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science is looking for four assistant professors in International Relations. Application deadline: 1 March 2017.
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Opening Event Three New Leiden Wall Formulas
The inner city of Leiden has gained three new wall formulas. On Wednesday 22 November at 15:30 in the Klein Auditorium, alderman Robert Strijk will reveal the paintings of Lorentz contraction, Oort constants and electron spin.
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Four Open Positions, Join the LUGO Team!
Are you passionate about sustainability? Do you see opportunities to make Leiden University more sustainable? Are you able to inspire, engage and empower students and staff? This is your chance to contribute!
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Registration open for LeidenGlobal Course 'Discipline & Place'
The LeidenGlobal Course ‘Discipline and Place' for ResMA and PhD students highlights the interaction of the disciplinary theory and the method with realities, representations, and issues of place, with lectures by fourteen LeidenGlobal experts. Registration is open until September 6th.
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Michiel Tjepkema appointed professor at Open University
From 1 March 2023, Michiel Tjepkema has been appointed professor of government liability and mining damage at the Open University in the Netherlands. Tjepkema is a former associate professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law and remains affiliated to this department as a guest…
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ECPR concerned about academic freedom in Turkey
The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) has expressed its concern about reported infringements of academic freedom in Turkey. The ECPR, of which Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science is a member, urges the Turkish political authorities to ensure that all academics can do their…
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Subtle sounds open things in the mind
Distance / Fiction is a sound installation that deals with the ways listening is entwined with processes and techniques of sound mediation.
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The faculty opens her Youtube Channel
As of today, several educational films, lectures and other faculty-related issues can be easily viewed our own Youtube channel! A link to our channel has been placed on our homepage.
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Florian Schneider wins LUS Teaching Prize
Florian Schneider has earned the title of Leiden University Lecturer of the Year. Sinologist Schneider was nominated by his students and crowned winner of the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year by the board of the Leiden University Student Platform (LUS).
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Open Space project: where dance meets cosmology
Until 15 May, Open Space will give room for artistic creation and experimentation in a partnership between artists and astronomers. The project is a collaboration among Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), Korzo and the Leiden Observatory. Starting on 3 May, young dancers of NDT 2, three choreographers, three…
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Official opening of 467 new student flats
Kajsa Ollongren, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, opened a complex of 467 student flats in Leiden on 26 August. This is the (Y)ours development on the sustainable ‘Leidse Schans’ campus at Lammenschans train station.
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A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
As a critical commemoration of its centenary, this book presents a mosaic of one hundred carefully curated fragments by expert authors, shedding light on politics, economy, society, culture, gender, and arts in a hundred years of Turkey.
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Photo Report: Bachelor's Open Day KOG
On Saturday 22 October, the KOG filled up with prospective students looking for their next course of study. The lecture halls were packed to the brim with curious potential lawyers. Between study presentations, information could be gathered throughout the building at the designated information market…