Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the right...
A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
Childhood trauma can have a lifelong effect. Many therapists do not dare to confront these vulnerable patients with their past because they are concer...
Minou van der Werf advocates applying insights from social psychology to financial behaviour. Even small practical interventions can help people to ma...
During adolescence, some young people have stable best-friend relationships, while others change best friends frequently. Developmental psychologist L...
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This additional grant is...
She stands out for the moderate tone she takes in discussions on Dutch talk shows. Without judgement you can have an open conversation, criminal lawye...
Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmacy at University College London (UCL). As a female scientist of colour, she was initially reluctant to play an ac...
In 2021 a record number of researchers obtained a PhD at Leiden University. Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the number of PhDs conferred was 448, on...
The Faculty’s traditional New Year’s reception, like everything else these days, was transformed into an online event this year. Dean Paul Wouters as ...
How are you doing in these strange and unprecedented times? This is the question we are asking our colleagues in this series of articles. This time we...
From 22 January on, the video conferencing app Zoom will be available for students and teachers at Leiden University. The University is responding to ...
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. The theses awards go to Robert-Jan de Rooij and Florian Thomas-Odenthal. PhD...
Michiel van Elk talks about his research on the effects of psychedelics, for which he won the Vidi-grant. 'It's the first time in history that the Dut...