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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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‘There couldn’t be a better time to launch EUniWell’On 17 November, the European academic community will be a partnership richer, when EUniWell, the European University of Well-Being, is launched. Withi...
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What the refugee crisis teaches us about human connectionWhat if a major world event alters the trajectory of your research project? Tsolin Nalbantian was studying citizenship along the Turkish-Syrian border...
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Campus The Hague expands into Central Innovation District in The HagueLeiden University’s Campus the Hague is soon to expand into the Central Innovation District in the centre of The Hague. Plans are under way for a Cam...
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Caring Universities: students struggling with coronavirus pandemicStudents have experienced more mental health problems such as anxiety, stress and low mood since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic than before....
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Healthy University Week: ta-da and to doDuring Healthy University Week, from 26 to 30 October, staff could choose from 63 workshops, talks and other online healthy university activities. We ...
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New international platform campaigns for children’s rightsFrom the rights of refugee children to the right to a sustainable Earth. The online platform Leiden Children's Rights Observatory makes information on...
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Student mentor Tatum Meijer: ‘Face it together during this challenging academic year'Every year, student mentors are appointed for first-year students at Leiden University. These mentors help new students with getting started. Tatum Me...
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Postdocs unite in representative bodyYoung academics often face uncertainties in their academic careers. It is for precisely this reason that Leiden postdocs recently united in a represen...
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Coronavirus student campaign launched: ‘For student life. That’s why’The National Chamber of Student Associations (LKvV) launched a coronavirus campaign today: ‘That’s why.’ The campaign was launched together with Ingri...
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How does social distancing affect the relationship between population groups?Hardly ever before have different groups in the population retreated into their own bubble as much as they are doing today. Professor of Sociology and...
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WHO KNOWS theme of Leiden European City of Science 2022Leiden will be scientific capital of Europe in 2022. The theme of the festivities was announce on 28 October: Who Knows. After all, does anyone have a...
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Leiden students relatively positive about online teachingThe students at Leiden University are satisfied with the online teaching that they received in the second semester of the 2019-2020 academic year. The...
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The Golden Dawn verdict and the inescapable element of languageOn 7 October, a court in Athens, Greece, convicted leaders of the far-right Golden Dawn party as directing a criminal organization. Marina Terkourafi,...
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‘Safety of Journalism – more urgent than ever’Register now for the World Press Freedom Conference 2020 digital edition (9 – 10 December 2020)!