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Art and Academia: do they go together?

The PhD students at the Academy for Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University include a composer, an artist and a baroque flautist. Henk Borgdorff, who studied the phenomenon of PhDs in the Arts, says, ‘Artistic research in all disciplines of the Arts is a booming business worldwide.’


Persistence with asylum applications pays off

Requests for asylum that are rejected in the first instance are frequently accepted following an appeal or a second application: the reasons for the original rejection are often difficult to prove. PhD defence Tycho Walaardt 24 April.