News
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New step in development of Humanities Campus: Urban development plan available for viewing 14 December 2022
Leiden University has designed a new Urban Development Plan for the Humanities Campus. This plan incorporates participation from the immediate environ...
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Training for lecturers: making skills more visible in curricula 13 December 2022
On Tuesday 8 November, a workshop for lecturers was held on skills that students acquire throughout their studies. The workshop was organised by KU Le...
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Taskforce calls for more scope for lecturer development: ‘Dare to raise the issue yourself’ 13 December 2022
The quality of academic education depends on good teaching. A taskforce of lecturers, education specialists and HRM experts is therefore calling for L...
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Executive Board column: how can we help our lecturers develop their talents? 13 December 2022
Good lecturers are extremely important to our university. I therefore think it is crucial that we provide them with enough professional development op...
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum 12 December 2022
From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them m...
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard' 08 December 2022
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer...
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An EU with a higher EQ 07 December 2022
How do you increase the EU’s EQ so that citizens and countries feel a greater sense of belonging and safety in the EU, and the countries work better t...
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Old tradition of ‘golden PhDs’ reinstated 06 December 2022
Black-and-white photographs filled with solemn young men and distinguished professors line the walls of the Grand Auditorium. Young women are missing ...
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What Leiden University is doing about gender inclusion 06 December 2022
Leiden University wants to be a safe and inclusive learning and working environment for all its students and staff. In an interview with XperHR HR kno...
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee' 06 December 2022
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversit...
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Sustainability Report 2021: continuing to reduce our CO2 footprint 06 December 2022
Leiden University continued to reduce its carbon footprint in 2021 by being more careful with natural resources and making structural reductions to it...
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Protests in China: Politicians afraid of not the population but colleagues 05 December 2022
That it was students who started the protests in China against its zero Covid policy makes things more dangerous for politicians. China expert Frank P...
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Woman, man or somewhere in between? You decide (and not just your body) 05 December 2022
A female body equals a woman. Nonsense, says Professor by Special Appointment to the Socrates Chair Annemie Halsema. She argues that our sense of iden...
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Lifelong Learning and Development: University launches Academy for Professionals project 01 December 2022
The Academy for Professionals project started in November. The project will focus on further developing existing and new educational programmes for pr...
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Improving student reading comprehension through interactive texts 29 November 2022
The program FeedbackFruits allows you to add online questions and discussion topics to a text. This helps them better understand the course material a...