Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Langu...

Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a ...

Leiden students are fairly satisfied with their degree programme. This is clear from the first results of the National Student Survey 2021, which was ...

Stéphanie Noach, PhD within LUCAS, received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for her PhD project 'Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contempor...

In the coming years, Hilde De Weerdt gets to spend over three million euros. She received grants from both the European Research Council (ERC) and the...

Simon van Hoeve is a student of the master’s degree programme International Relations. Every week, he makes a podcast episode for his study associatio...

In the new Annual Report 2020 we report on not only the research and teaching, but also the knowledge transfer, operational management and general pol...

The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep poppin...

With its ‘Quality Agreements’, Leiden University is working to improve the quality of its teaching. Much has been done since they began at the end of ...

The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...

How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, stud...

The LUF International Study Fund (LISF) will make changes to its allocation process following an investigation into diversity in its grants policy. Th...

‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and ...

On 3 June, Annetje Ottow (chair) and Hester Bijl (rector magnificus) met the Humanities faculty. Although a physical introduction was preferred, this ...