I am a political scientist with a focused research agenda on two interrelated strands: (i) understanding the contextual factors and institutional frameworks that enable politicians and bureaucrats to deliver successful policy outcomes in the Global South; and (ii) decentring Public Administration by…

Lars Dorren is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration (Leiden University), interested in knowledge use in processes of reasoning and decision-making. As an ethnographer, Lars approaches reasoning as a dynamic group activity; a spontaneous practice in which individuals rely…

Henriëtte van den Heuvel is Scientific Director of the Institute of Political Science.

Justin Spruit is a lecturer at the institute of Political Science.

Dr. Joana Cook is a graduate of King’s College London where she completed her MA and PhD in the Department of War Studies (BA University of Regina). Her research more broadly focuses on women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices. More recent scholarly interests…

Dr. Sarah Carthy is an assistant professor in terrorism an political violence at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. She is a graduate of the University of Galway where she completed her BA and PhD in Psychology. Her research mainly focuses on radicalisation, evidence-based approaches to prevention…

Stijn Willem van ’t Land works as a researcher and PhD candidate for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA). His doctoral research focuses on violence committed by lone actors.

Roy Hofkamp is a PhD-researcher at Leiden University - Institute of Security and Global Affairs. His research interests lie, among other things, in governance and responsibilization in relation to close protection. He is involved in the research project Close Protection and Surveillance. He has a background…

George Dikaios is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Political Science.

Jonathan Collins is a PhD candidate at Charles and Leiden University.

Isabelle Frens is a researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University within the research group Terrorism and Political Violence. She has a background in Liberal Arts & Science (BSc) and Social Psychology (MSc).

Ben Schoenmaker was Professor by special appointment of Military History from 2012 to 2024, on behalf of the Netherlands Defence Academy.

This Subject Guide is designed to support students of Korean studies at Leiden University in their research process. For every step of the research process, this guide introduces a number of tips and recommended resources. You can find several sub-guides and contacts in the 'quick links' in the tab…

Inocêncio Joao Raul Zandamela is a deaf PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics. He is pursuing his degree in research on Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Studies. He holds a Master’s degree in Science of Education from College of St. Rose, New York- US and a Bachelor’s degree in Education from…

Olga Nozdracheva is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests focus on second language acquisition, starting from the methodological aspects (how to teach?) and ending with cognitive ones (how do we acquire languages?). Though the current object of her research…

Athan Idul is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Linguistics.

Helen Westgeest is a Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Richard Jansen is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Peter Verstraten is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Dr. Bram Slütter is associate professor at the Division of BioTherapeutics.

Dr Maaike de Waal is Assistant Professor at the Field Research Education Centre of the Faculty of Archaeology.

Overview of databases, reference works and websites for South and Southeast Asian Studies.

Louis Sicking lectures medieval and early modern history at the Leiden University Institute for History and is Aemilius Papinianus professor of History of Public International Law, at VU University Amsterdam.

The UBL holds seven collections recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. Six are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents or Memory of the World Register, one in the Dutch UNESCO register.

The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.