Personal development

Laura Pape is a PhD researcher at the unit of Clinical Psychology. She investigates digital sleep interventions and the role of improved sleep in the prevention of mental health problems.

Renske Gilissen specialises in suicide prevention. Her research and teaching focus on risk factors and protective factors of suicide and on the effectiveness and implementation of suicide prevention interventions.

Are you a Leiden researcher looking for opportunities for interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the fields of local communities, health and disease prevention? If so, Health Campus The Hague is the right place for you. Take a look at these four examples of current research.

Title of research: An Ounce of Prevention: How to Prevent International Crimes. Jennifer Schense is a PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. She is researching the international obligation to prevent crimes and how that obligation may be fulfilled,…

Organisation

The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The projects adress suicide prevention skills and mental health of Ukraine refugees. Both projects will be integrated in the programme with the aim to improve…

Early treatment benefits patients who have not fully developed rheumatoid arthritis but are in the preliminary stages of the disease. This is what researchers from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) have reported in The Lancet. Patients in the pre-arthritis stage who were temporarily prescribed…

Didactics

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…

Nina Komrij works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Developmental and Educational Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Layla van Wieringen is a Researcher/Tutor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs for the research group Physical Violence and Public Order. Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of extremism and other potentially harmful ideologies within a family context.

Olga Bogolyubova is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Her research interests are focused on violence and its impact on mental health, mental health literacy, technology-facilitated violence, and psychology of online behaviors.

As professor of Violence and Policing, I study various forms of violence in public spaces and how violence is used to enforce the moral and legal order. My research focuses on violence between (groups of) youth, threatening and violent confrontations between police and citizens, public disorder,…

Biological agents are micro-organisms such as bacteria, parasites, moulds, viruses and their waste products. This category also includes genetically modified variants (GMOs). These agents may form a risk for your health, which is why we apply a number of legal and other guidelines to prevent people…

Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

Personal development

Who should you contact to set up, move or adjust your workplace?

Any loss of control over stored personal data is a potential data breach. Most cases involve stolen or lost digital files, but a stolen or lost printed list of personal data is also a data breach. It is important to report any data breach.

Together we create a healthy and safe working environment. Should an incident, dangerous situation or needle-stick injury nevertheless occur, please report it immediately. Such incidents are far more frequent than serious accidents. By reporting them we can make sure that they do not lead to serious…

Any loss of control over stored personal data constitutes a potential data leak. In most cases this concerns stolen (or lost) digital files, but a stolen (or mislaid) printed list containing personal data also represents a data leak. It is important that you report any data leak.

Pieter Tops holds the special chair in Organised and Subversive Crime Studies established and funded by the Police Academy.

Monica den Boer is professor by special appointment of Police Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Monica currently holds the Chair on Military Policing Operations at the Netherlands Defence Academy in Breda, a position she has occupied since 2020. Previously, she served as a Member…

Saniye Çelik holds the position of Special Professor of Diversity and Inclusion at the Police, affiliated with the National Police. Her research interests encompass leadership and culture, creating safe and inclusive teams, personnel recruitment and retention, and fostering connections between public…

Merel Sprenger is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), studying femicide in the Netherlands by linking data from the Dutch Femicide Monitor with CBS microdata.

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More and more people are experiencing work pressure due to digital means of communication. Media like e-mail and Signal (WhatsApp) ensure that we can be reached day and night, which can cause an increased sense of work pressure and always being 'on call'. In February 2023, the new digital communication…

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Marieke Liem is professor of Security and Interventions at Leiden University, where she and her team coordinate the European Homicide Monitor. A graduate of University of Cambridge in the U.K., Marieke Liem completed her PhD in Forensic Psychology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Before joining…

If you’re experiencing too much work pressure, talk about it to your colleagues and your manager. This is the only way we can jointly work towards a solution. How do you raise the issue of work pressure? And what can you do to prevent work pressure from getting out of hand?