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March 20, 2025

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March 20, 2025

Kamerlingh Onnes Building (Steenschuur 25), Leiden

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On March 20, 2025, we’re bringing together researchers and experts for another engaging edition of the ELS Academy’s midseason event, this time on the topic of research funding. This is your opportunity to gain valuable insights into securing grants, navigating funding opportunities, and learning from other’s experiences, including rejections. Because let’s be real—funding success doesn’t come without setbacks. That’s why we’ll also discuss the challenges of rejections, what we can learn from them, and how to turn them into future opportunities.

This event is free of charge. Sign up below!

During our panel discussion, we’ll delve into the challenges of rejections, what we can learn from them, and how to turn them into future opportunities.

Opening remarks by:

  • Helen Pluut, Associate Professor at Leiden Law School and Director of the ELS Academy.

Panelists:

  • Matthew Canfield, Assistant Professor at the Van Vollenhoven Institute, with a background in socio-legal studies, received the NWO Open Competition SSH XS Grant in the past and recently won an ERC Consolidator Grant.
  • Jaroslaw Kantorowicz, Associate Professor with an interdisciplinary background, recipient of a Horizon Europe grant for a project on the rule of law and recently a KNAW grant for a project on people-centered constitutional law (with Wim Voermans).
  • Vanessa Mak, Professor of Civil Law and Scientific Director of the Institute of Private Law, has been awarded a Vici Grant for her project on consumer identities.
  • Jekaterina Savicka, Funding Advisor at Leiden Law School, with expertise in advising researchers on applying for research grants and finding external funding.

The programme includes presentations from early-career researchers who have received seed money from the ELS Academy. They will discuss the content and challenges of their empirical research projects.

  • Aylin Aydin Cakir (Erasmus University Rotterdam): This project aims to explain how different forms of government attacks against the judiciary affect (a) public trust in the judiciary, (b) public willingness to bring a case to court, and (c) compliance with court decisions; survey experiments are conducted in two European countries where populist governments are in power.
  • Loran Kostense (VU Amsterdam) and Sofia de Jong (Leiden University): This project compares case law analysis (jurisprudentieonderzoek) via rechtspraak.nl with court file studies (dossieronderzoek) to offer in-depth insight into the advantages and disadvantages of both legal methods.
  • Marie-Therese Sekwenz (TU Delft): This project aims to empirically explore the reliability and effectiveness of legal content analysis techniques for assessing risk according to the Digital Services Act (DSA), comparing human coders and large language models (LLMs).
  • Sarah Vahed (Radboud University): This project applies approaches from decision neuroscience, combining behavioural experiments and neuroimaging, to investigate the psychological mechanisms driving social media users’ decisions to report and punish illegal online content.

We’ll kick off the event with a networking lunch and wrap up the day with drinks.

Programme

12:00-13:00:   Lunch

13:00-13:15:   Opening

13:15-14:30:   Panel discussion

14:30-16:30:   Presentations

16:30-16:45:   Closing

16:45-18:00:   Drinks

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