How do you ensure a healthy work balance when the workload increases exponentially overnight due to a pandemic? Head of IT and Facilities Marjana Rheb...

The challenge: take three hundred students from vastly varying disciplines and teach them the basics of academic thinking in twelve lessons. Impossibl...

Alumna Tiziana Lippiello became the first female rector magnificus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last year. In this way, she hopes to contribute...

In the space of seven weeks, the staff of the LUMC and Leiden University have left home more than 35,000 times for a short walk, or an Ommetje as it i...

The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a ...

From interview training and competence tests to internships and contact with alumni. At Leiden University there are many ways for our students to prep...

After having been cancelled in 2020, this year the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is going online. From 12 – 23 July, language and linguis...

Working for a social client during your studies: this is what happens at Urban Studies. For the course Urban Studies in Practice, third-year students ...

In 2022, Leiden will be the European City of Science. University lecturer Jaap de Jong has created special assignments for the journalism master's stu...

In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncov...

The BA Religious Studies programme has been awarded the label 'Topopleiding' (Top Education) in the Keuzegids 2021.

Particularly during this time of social distancing and remote learning, it is important to carry on meeting new people – even if you don’t always feel...

The students from the Leiden University Green Office have big ambitions and have outlined their recommendations in a new Green Paper. Like being the m...

In the research for her upcoming book, Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts, author and academic Nadine Akkerman stumbled upon a little-known portrait of...

Diversity and inclusion are core values for Leiden University, and our aim is to offer all staff and students equal opportunities. As the University l...