526 search results for “social change” in the Student website
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2024
Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. What did the university achieve in 2024? A small sample.
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Joris LarikFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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‘Having children is increasingly seen as something that can be planned and managed’
What are the main trends in family life today? Three stand out: young adults living with their parents for longer, people delaying parenthood and widening inequality between families. How did these trends emerge, and what are their consequences? Leiden experts explain.
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Erik de MaakerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Representative from ERC Safe & Sound presents paper at WE ROBOT Europe
On 17 October, a representative from the ERC Safe & Sound project attended the first edition of WE ROBOT Europe in Berlin. At the conference, speakers and participants from the academic world, policy bodies and industry shared and discussed their thoughts on robotics regulation in the EU and the US.…
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Synthetic dataset protects privacy in criminological research
The SENSYN project has found a solution to few public datasets for criminological research: synthetic datasets. Marieke Liem talks about this unique innovation
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Leiden University joins national 113 campaign: ‘It’s okay to feel uncomfortable about talking about suicide’
Talking about suicide is important, but anything but comfortable. To make this difficult subject easier for students and staff to discuss, the university is organising a campaign week in line with the national campaign ‘1K Z1E J3’ (I see you) being run by Stichting 113 Zelfmoordpreventie (113 is the…
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The future is queer and technological. Also human.
The history of the LGTBI+ collective, deeply marked by episodes of violence, repression, and discrimination, is also the history of the struggle for social change and the conquest of civil rights, advances without which contemporary Western democracies could not be explained. More recently, the implementation…
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Legal Tech Challenge: Students harness technology to improve access to justice
On 20 March, the final of the Legal Tech Challenge 2025 took place at Leiden University. After weeks of collaboration, brainstorming sessions and workshops on legal accessibility, five student teams presented their innovative legal apps to a jury.
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Advisory report on unacceptable behaviour published
Today, 13 May 2024, Leiden University’s Executive Board is publishing the advice of the committee that investigated reports of unacceptable behaviour and breaches of academic integrity. These reports were about a professor from the university and their partner (a former member of the university staf…
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The person behind the truck driver
Most people talk about truck drivers rather than to them. That’s an error of judgement, says PhD candidate Anke van der Hoeven, who explains why we should be making their lives easier. ‘People just don’t realise it, but they’re an invisible group that keeps the European economy running.’
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Try-out lecture Law and Society (MSc)
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Victoria NystAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Hans de VriesFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Mayke KaagAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Navigating the Unpredictable: Climate Chaos and the Future of Water
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