65 search results for “evidence basis” in the Student website
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Anika BexkensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ellen van Beukering-RosmullerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Valérie PattynFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Scientific breakthrough: evidence that Neanderthals hunted giant elephants
Neanderthals were able to outwit straight-tusked elephants, the largest land mammals of the past few million years. Leiden professor Wil Roebroeks has published an article about this together with his German colleague Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser in the Science Advances journal.
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Johan ChristensenFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gavin RobinsonFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jenneke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
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Wilfried AdmiraalICLON
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Geert-Jan WillFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wilma WentholtFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Gergana Vasileva
ICLON
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Uhlenbeck scholarship research master students
Master
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy?
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).
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Sanne van LuenenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mohammed Raiz ShaffiqueFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marie Schwed ShenkerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Chloe GrosFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Uhlenbeck conference scholarship
Master
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Nadia GarnefskiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Vivian Kraaij
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Eduard Fosch VillarongaFaculty of Law
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Carlotta RigottiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Exemptions and petitions
Do you want to request a change to the academic requirements set by your bachelor's or master's programme? Perhaps you want to be exempted from a particular course, because you think you have already acquired the knowledge elsewhere. Or do you want academic credits earned at another institution to be…
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LUC Financial Support Programme
Bachelor
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Exemptions and petitions
Do you want to request a change to the academic requirements set by your bachelor's or master's programme? Perhaps you want to be exempted from a particular course, because you think you have already acquired the knowledge elsewhere. Or do you want academic credits earned at another institution to be…
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Funding for projects and activities
Learn how your organisation board can request funding for projects and activities.
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.
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Unacceptable behaviour
This page provides information on what to do if you have been subjected to unacceptable behaviour.
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Sophie van RijnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Philip SpinhovenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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DNA study reveals remarkable stability in prehistoric Low Countries populations
For thousands of years, the prehistoric communities of the Low Countries followed their own path, compared with the rest of Europe. An international research team has now published these findings in Nature.
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Court deems unacceptable behaviour by professor likely, ruling on dismissal request postponed
It is sufficiently plausible that the professor from the Faculty of Archaeology exhibited the ‘inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour’ detailed in the advice of the investigating committee. That is is unless the professor provides counter-evidence. This is the conclusion of the Subdistrict Court…
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Leiden University publishes the titles of seven tainted scientific articles
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 in which there is evidence of malpractice. This concerns a former staff member of the Institute of Psychology. The Executive Board considers it to be in…
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Students work on a cold case: ‘We look in a different way than the police’
Sixteen master’s students from a variety of disciplines are helping The Hague Police to find new clues in a cold case.
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Executive Board interview: ‘Trust is a key measure’
A new Executive Board has been leading Leiden University since mid-January. What are their impressions and their plans? An introduction in two parts. Today is the final part.
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the police and the municipality. An extremely important issue to students − if the 100 places being claimed as soon as the symposium was announced was anything…
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Honours Class on inequality: 'Focus on the big issues’
At the end of December, the concluding lecture of the Bachelor Honours Class 'Policy and Politics: struggling to combat social inequalities' took place. Students, under the guidance of former minister Jet Bussemaker, tackled the question of what inequality actually is. "You can't avoid it when you look…
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Corstens Commission concludes in report: no expressions of antisemitism
The Corstens Commission that investigated whether there are any grounds for the rumours of antisemitism at the Faculty of Law has found no indication whatsoever for such expressions. This also applies to the professor in question. This is evident from the report that the commission chaired by Professor…
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Unequal academic freedom: women’s expertise more likely to be questioned
Nadia Bouras will give the Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture on 6 March. She will call for academic freedom for everyone.
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives
In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philosophy, and law discussed how the online world is related to adolescent mental health issues, moral and emotional awareness and children’s rights. In three…
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First photo of black hole at the heart of our Galaxy
Finally we know for sure that there is a black hole at the centre of our own galaxy. Today, astronomers unveiled the first ever photo of Sagittarius A*, a super-massive object at the centre of the Milky Way. This picture could only be taken thanks to the cooperation of telescopes worldwide.
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Hanna Swaab
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Special telescope measures neutrino with highest energy ever
Even with state-of-the-art technology, it is almost impossible to see: a cosmic neutrino. Yet scientists have managed to image this particle with a deep-sea telescope. And that could help to better understand our universe. Leiden particle physicists collaborated on this ambitious project, published…
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Augustinus receives first Student Well-being Award
A growing number of student organisations are focusing attention on the mental, social and physical well-being of their members. This year, the first Student Well-being Award was therefore presented at the annual reception for new student association board members (’omgekeerde constitutieborrel’) in…
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Sempre Crescendo: a close-knit group of musical students
In 2026 bestaat het studentenorkest en -koor Sempre Crescendo 195 jaar.