David Zetland researches the political-economy of water, the environment and the commons. As a university lecturer at Leiden University College, he teaches courses on economics, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and the commons.

Akrati Saxena leads the Algorithmic Fairness (AlFa) research group and is a member of the Computational Network Science (CNS) group at LIACS. Her research interest lies at the intersection of Social Network Analysis, Complex Networks, Computational Social Science, Data Science, and Algorithmic Fairn…

Lecture, LUCL Colloquium

Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People

Dilara is a PhD candidate working on her NWO-funded project Heritage Generations: Home-making, Critical Nostalgia, and Futures of Turkish-Dutch Belonging, for which she was awarded the Mozaiek Grant. Dilara is also part of the AHO (At Home Otherwise) research team on diversifying heritage practices…

Rehana Dole has worked as a Research and Education staff member at the Institute of Private Law's Department of Child Law since 15 September 2022.

Last year, Maaike Swart moved from coordinating the Strategic Plan implementation agenda to joining the Organisational Development team. As Programme Manager, she has been asked by the Executive Board to help shape Leiden University’s strategic development.

“We are proud and happy to receive this grant. It will enable us to do truly innovative fundamental research with a direct link to practical applications.” Michiel Westenberg is looking forward to investigate the effects of age and social anxiety on eye-contact. Together with Esther van den Bos he has…

Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills

Anna Notsu is a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of the Leiden University.

Kiki Spoelstra is a PhD candidate at the CoPAN lab of the unit Cognitive Psychology. Her research focusses on communication, socio-cognitive functioning, and emotional expression in felids. By including species that greatly differ in their degree of sociality, she aims to further investigate how social…

Jinxian Wang is assistant professor at the department of Economics.

Stewart is a PhD researcher in the Industrial Ecology department of CML who is working on developing life-cycle assessments for critical raw material recovery processes. Stewart started as a PhD researcher at the Industrial Ecology department of CML in September 2022.

Koen Caminada (1966) is Professor of Empirical Analysis of Tax and Social Policy at Leiden University, the Netherlands. He is Dean at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.

Festival, Graduation Ceremony

Festival, Graduation Ceremony

Alumni event

Judi Mesman (1974) has been a professor at Leiden University since 2009 and focuses on the study of social (in)justice with special attention to intergenerational issues at individual and institutional levels. Since 2024, she has also been appointed Distinguished Professor of Social Responsibility and…

Study information, Student for a Day

Geert-Jan Will is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie “LEaDing” Fellow in the Clinical Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

De rechtbank van Rotterdam geeft zorghulp Carol Kollmann gelijk in haar rechtszaak tegen het UWV. De zorghulpverlener vond dat ze recht heeft op een WW-uitkering en het meetellen van haar arbeidsverleden voor de WW, nadat ze erachter kwam dat ze daar door de zogeheten Regeling dienstverlening aan huis…

Iris Müller has been working as a PhD candidate at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology since March 2025.

Bart Vogelaar is an assistant professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

With the start of the new academic year, the Social Resilience & Security programme proudly presents their yearbook. In the yearbook, you read about the programme’s interdisciplinary research building bridges between institutes, its educational activities such as the new Minor ‘Violence Studies’ and…

...What does seem clear, though, is that there is a great deal of room for improvement in the process of out-of-home placement. The FSW's social and behavioural scientists give their views.

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

Caroline S. Archambault (Anthropology PhD, Brown University, 2007) is an Assistant Professor at LUC. Her current research focuses on human rights, international development, and demography in sub-Saharan Africa. Topics of interest include: natural resource management, education, pastoralism, urban informal…

My work lies at the intersection of political economy, political geography, development studies, and critical geopolitics. I am particularly interested in South-South relations, China’s global footprint (with a specific focus on China’s engagement in Latin America and the Caribbean), conflict around…

The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the Netherlands were the reason for Anouk de Koning, Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to start working on a Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) application…