NewsThree Leiden researchers have been awarded a grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within the Social Sciences field. The grants can be used to appoint a full-time PhD candidate for a maximum of three years. A total of 42 of the 206 applications submitted were honoured.
‘Universities’ contribution to the economy is so effective precisely because it is not our primary objective,’ was the message of keynote speaker Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at the 10-year anniversary conference of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), on 9 and 10 May.
Children who have less sleep underperform at school, they exhibit more behavioural problems and have more difficulty with complex tasks. The journal Psychological Bulletin published an analysis of a hundred years of research into the importance of sleep among children. The research was carried out by researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences (NIN) and Leiden University.