The Covid pandemic has had a considerable impact on academics’ work and well-being. They have had much less time to spend on their research. The Young...

Last week Annemarie Montulet and several of our colleagues attended an online fair in China to talk to Chinese PhD candidates. ‘I had some very good d...

Two Leiden students stand a chance of winning the ECHO Award for Higher Education. Deniz Rana Kuseyri (Rana for short) and Ruşen Koç are two of the si...

Only 27 per cent of Dutch households are financially healthy. This appears from a joint study conducted by Deloitte, ING, NIBUD and the Department of ...

The Minister has requested urgent advice from Sombroek-van Doorm in relation to the vaccination of children aged between 5 and 12 years against COVID-19.

In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...

The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...

Social media are playing a key role in calling for resistance to the corona measures. Online, agreements are made about where and when people will gat...

It appears from a study conducted by Independer and Q&A Research that at least one in five Dutch people think you can be refused basic health insuranc...

At least 27 migrants died on 24 November after their boat capsized in the Channel between France and England.

The Executive Board has appointed Olaf van Vliet as Professor of Economics at Leiden University, specialising in social security and labour market pol...

Prof. Marcel Reinders is a data science specialist at Delft University of technology. Using smart algorithms, he searches for links in complex data. F...

The Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory is pleased to launch the Spanish version of the website. This new feature of the website is a result of the p...

Soil ecologists Emilia Hannula (Leiden) and Elly Morriën (UvA) received the Golden Medal of Teylers Tweede Genootschap on 5 November. They received th...

Last weekend, all university buildings were closed and the university systems were unavailable. The reason for this was the major maintenance of the u...