2,395 search results for “studies” in the Student website
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Many playgrounds unsuitable for children with autism
Playgrounds often fail to accommodate children with autism, according to researchers Carolien Rieffe and colleagues. They have published an essay offering practical advice on how to make all children feel safe and welcome for Autism Week (Dutch) and World Autism Autism Awareness/ Acceptance Day on 2…
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How to communicate: LLP Skills Café
On the menu of the LLP Skills Café no beer and snacks, but communication skills as listening, resolving conflicts, and giving feedback. ‘Once you really learn to listen, you become a better leader and nicer friend.’
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Plant-based party on campus: discover and enjoy during Meat and Dairy-Free Week
Facility, Organisation
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Update Executive Board: 'These are difficult times for us all'
The Schoof cabinet has presented its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly look at the consequences of what it deems an irresponsible policy.
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Pieter Slaman wins 2024 LUS Teaching Prize
Pieter Slaman, Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and the University’s university historian, has won the 2024 LUS Teaching Prize.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’
In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realise the ambitions from the educational vision of Leiden University in education. How is the programme currently doing? We talked to project manager Sanne…
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Debate on painting of cigar-smoking white men
The brief removal of Rein Dool’s ‘cigar-smoking white men’ painting generated a storm of reactions last November. Students, staff and alumni reflected on this at a symposium on Friday 26 May.
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Three Leiden students in the running for an ECHO Award
Three Leiden students are in the running for the annual ECHO Award. This prize is for students from non-Western backgrounds who are actively engaged in society and promote diversity and inclusion. The three Leiden nominees are Gnimdou Yaovi Assih, Husna Jalal and Sohana Jethnani.
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Fenna IJtsma delved into four centuries of Leiden greenery: 'Leiden people have always sought out greenery'
Over the past year, historian Fenna IJtsma delved into 'four centuries of historical greenery'. As part of the Heritage Deal, with input from biologists at Naturalis and others, she looked for inspiration and examples from the past to contribute to a future climate-proof city centre.
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Sigrid Kaag avant la lettre: Women played a significant role in eighteenth-century diplomacy
With her Veni research, investigator Rosanne Baars from the Institute of History aims to demonstrate that women played a role in the eighteenth-century diplomatic circles of the Ottoman Empire. ‘We already know that one woman led the entire embassy.'
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Friendship between people with and without disabilities: ‘Often valuable for both parties’
Despite increasing attention to inclusion, loneliness statistics are not improving for people with intellectual disabilities. University lecturer Paul van Trigt will use an ERC Consolidator Grant to conduct research into friendships between people with and without intellectual disabilities. What does…
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Decolonisation at university: ‘There was a feeling that something new and positive was happening’
Much research into the colonial past of scientific institutions stops as soon as a colony gains independence. In two new projects, university lecturer Anne-Isabelle Richard focuses on the decolonisation period. How did universities deal with the changed reality?
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CareerCollege Working in Research
Career and apply for jobs
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Petrus Camper’s Research on Elephants: Cabinets, Menageries, and the Zoology of Exotic Animals in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch
Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar
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Compass on Purpose - Explore what matters to help you choose (NL/EN)
Career and apply for jobs, Study support, Study support
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Thesis kick-off
Study support, Study support
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Thesis Group Writing Lab, first semester 2025/26
Study support
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Workshop: Academic writing and GenAI
Study support
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Workshop Basic skills in academic writing
Study support, Study support
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Workshop Develop an academic writing style
Study support, Study support
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Workshop Creating a clear structure
Study support, Study support
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Sea of Possibilities (NL/EN): map your next year
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Sea of Possibilities (NL/EN): map your next year
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Thesis Boost Day
Study support
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Workshop AI and Creative Use
Study support
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (online)
Study information
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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
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Career Prep: Panel session and Meet & Greet with alumni (for Psychology students)
Career and apply for jobs
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Guidance group for gifted students
Study support
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Talent & Traps: explore your strengths and weaknesses (NL/EN)
Study support, Study support, Career and apply for jobs
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Daily Dutch (POPcorner FSW)
Study support
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Workshop: Become your own editor - Science
Study support
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Personal Professional Skills market
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Thesis Support Group Leiden & the Hague
Study support
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Thesis kick-off: The design of your thesis
Study support, Study support
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Workshop: Become your own editor - Science
Study support
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BACK ON TRACK - training for international students
Study support
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Thesis kick-off: The design of your thesis
Study support, Study support
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2026
Conference
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague)
Study information
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (Leiden)
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague)
Study information
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Happy Clay Day
Study support
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague)
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague)
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DATE CHANGE: Health and safety information session for students going abroad (online). Now on 3 July - was previously scheduled for 26 June
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Health and safety information session for students going abroad (The Hague)
Study information