Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that ...

It’s often said that citizens have lost trust in their governments. But who exactly are these ‘citizens’? And which aspects of people’s contact with ...

Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of ...

March 21 is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We spoke to Leiden University’s Diversity Officer, Aya Ezawa, and asked h...

Lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, amber from the Baltic and tin from Tajikistan. In the third millennium BC objects and raw materials were transported ov...

She moved from Sydney to London to Washington, but Leiden was there throughout. ‘Leiden is a surprising constant in my life,’ says alumnus Monique Koe...

The rules of play for researchers are becoming increasingly complex. This makes it essential that they receive the best possible support with challeng...

How is interdisciplinary collaboration faring at Leiden University? And has disciplinarity been completely abandoned? I’d like to reflect on some conc...

The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...

The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...

As from April 2023 all students at Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam will start using the eduXchange ...

‘I was very happy and honoured that my thesis was recognised as a valuable contribution to the topic of landscape archaeology.’

The number of women in the Netherlands dying before, during or after childbirth has halved in recent years. This was discovered by Athanasios Kalliani...

Dutch people with a low income are up to 1.5 times more at risk of a heart attack or stroke than their wealthier compatriots. Among Surinamese Hindus ...

Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, sci...