450 news items found
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The person behind the murderer 26 May 2022
Are all murderers calculating psychopaths with an obscene predilection for bloody chainsaws? Yes, if Hollywood is to be believed, but in the real worl...
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Honours Class tackles climate change head-on 25 May 2022
An international and interdisciplinary collaborative effort, the Honours Class ‘Sustainability Beyond Frustration: Saving the Planet as an Academic Sk...
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Newsletter Student Support FSW June 2022 24 May 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. ...
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Executive Board column: Which parts of online learning do we want to keep? 24 May 2022
Luckily we’ve been able to meet up on campus again for a few months now after two years of mainly online teaching. Alongside the inconvenience, enforc...
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Should intelligence services have a ‘licence to kill’? 19 May 2022
The ‘University of the Netherlands’ is a series of lectures in which academics address topics based on their expertise. In the latest instalment, cult...
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence 19 May 2022
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for...
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The FSW community gives valuable feedback on the faculty vision and strategy plan 18 May 2022
On 22 April, all students and staff of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences received an invitation to join the conversation about the facult...
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Unlocking Diversity Awareness at FestiWell – through an Escape Room Game! 18 May 2022
A 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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Leiden University publishes the titles of seven tainted scientific articles 18 May 2022
In a supplementary decision on 17 May 2022, the Executive Board of Leiden University has concluded that it will publish the titles of seven articles i...
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Students for Palestine panel discussion in The Hague on 24 May 17 May 2022
Students for Palestine – a group of students from Leiden and The Hague – are holding a panel discussion in the Leiden University in The Hague Wijnhave...
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Results of University elections: swing in student representation 17 May 2022
The results of the 2022 University elections are out. The student section of the University Council will be different from how it has been in the past...
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How do we stop homophobia at sports clubs? 17 May 2022
Not all gay and lesbian students feel equally safe at their sports clubs. ‘Homo’ is used almost unthinkingly as a term of abuse and players often face...
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia 16 May 2022
Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, c...
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Detaching students from the idea that everything you read is true 16 May 2022
We expect students to be critical readers. ‘But how?’ they ask. ‘You read an article and it all sounds perfectly logical and convincing, so why should...
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‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’ 16 May 2022
We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecesso...