Anton Cahyadi is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute.

Anton van Velzen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

Dr. Gerlov van Engelenhoven is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), teaching courses on postcolonial memory, law & culture, and cultural interaction. His most recent book is titled Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences.…

Sanne Rotmeijer works as a postdoc researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) in the ERC-project ARTIVES and as a lecturer in International and Urban Studies at the Leiden University (Campus The Hague).

From forwarding promising calls and arranging budgets to assisting in legal issues and keeping track of important deadlines: to associate professor Roxanne Kieltyka, the research support offered by project managers Inge Rietveld en Christina Schlüpen is fundamental. ‘The combination of our expertise…

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Annida Aqiila Putri is a PhD Candidate at IHE Delft and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Her research focuses on justice in the institutionalization of citizen science towards collaborative environmental compliance assurance.

Alan Palacios is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Lude Rozema teaches statistics and research methods at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University.

Jennifer Doekhie is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

The Countering Syndemic Vulnerability project supports communities by identifying and tackling clusters of social factors and health problems. The project works with residents and professionals in the Moerwijk district in The Hague and the Stevenshof district in Leiden.

Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is a university lecturer at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her background is in Lusophone Studies and in her research on postcolonial cultural identities she combines cultural analysis, in-depth interviews and creative participatory methods.

Paula Kemp is related as a doctoral researcher to the Institute for Private Law of the University Leiden since September 2016.

You may know it by the umbrella term 'citizen science'. You may also use terms such as volunteer mapping, patient co-researcher, or even community engaged learning to describe participatory practices in your research or teaching. No matter what you call it, there’s plenty going on when it comes to this…

Education, Research

Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…

Liesbeth Kanis is Head of the Library, Documentation and Information (LDI) Department at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). She is in charge of collection, strategy, policy and operations.

From February 2021 until August 2025, Lisa Ansems was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. She is currently affiliated with the institute as a guest researcher.

Thomas Willems is a PhD candidate at the Department of Clinical Psychology and his research focuses on the mechanisms and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically, the aim of his PhD-project is to reduce the gap between experimental research that is done in the laboratory, and…

How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.

Yara Abbing is affiliated to the Institute Criminal Law & Criminology as PhD candidate since September 1, 2025.

Stefan van der Vorm did his PhD research at Leiden University in the field of carbohydrate synthesis. He is currently a lecturer of organic chemistry courses in the bachelor and master programmes of the LIC. His research interests are focused on synthetic methodology in organic chemistry and specifically…

Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…

How do our researchers and support professionals work together to ensure that groundbreaking innovations from the lab are given a place in society? Professor Huub de Groot and business developer Serkan Esiner share their experiences on collaborating within an EU-funded project that focuses on converting…

In the complex academic playing field, it is crucial that researchers and research support professionals know how to find each other. At Leiden University, these collaborations are indispensable too, say professor Gilles van Wezel and project manager Mariana Avalos Garcia. ‘Without support, this project…

Eva Schmidt is PhD researcher at the Department of Child Law, Institute for Private Law since the 1st of September 2018.

The quality of the landscape is a good indicator of the health of a society.