Career development, Working effectively, Leadership

Career development, Leadership

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

From the start of your PhD you make agreements with your supervisors concerning your personal development and the supervision you receive. These agreements should be recorded in a Training and Supervision Plan. This plan contains agreements concerning your research, supervision, training, and potential…

Communication, Personal development, Diversity

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Brightspace is Leiden University's digital learning environment. With Brightspace you can share course materials, grades and updates with your students. You can create and evaluate assignments and quizzes, perform plagiarism checks, provide personalised feedback and peer-feedback, and start discussi…

Career development, Personal development, Working effectively

Communication, Outreach, Transferable skills

Study support

Career development, Leadership

Most employed and contract PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities follow a 4-year PhD trajectory.

Are you about to start your new job at Leiden University? Or did you just start? Below we have summarised the most important information for new employees.

PhD candidates who register on or from 1 September 2024 onwards will be charged an annual fee to contribute to the costs of their PhD trajectory. If you have started your PhD trajectory before this date, please read the information below.

Starting in January 2026, Leiden University will transition to a new, future-proof software system: BAS InSite. Using the checklist, you can go through all the necessary steps to ensure you're fully prepared for a smooth transition to the new administration system.

Are you moving to the Netherlands with your partner and looking to build your own career here? Whether your partner will be working at Leiden University or elsewhere, this page is for anyone relocating to the Netherlands and exploring job opportunities. Here you’ll find useful tips, resources, and links…

Communication, Working effectively, Transferable skills

On this page you can find tips & tricks to get started today on create better work balance.

Starting five years before your AOW (General Old Age Pensions Act) retirement age, you are allowed to submit a request to reduce your working hours per week by one or two days. You forfeit a portion of your salary, but you retain your original pension accrual. This arrangement is known as the Vitality…

For your commuting days, you can apply for a supplementary kilometre allowance in the Terms of Employment Individual Choices Model. You will not be reimbursed in full for your commuting expenses, but by offsetting your gross income, you will benefit from a tax benefit.

Your funding needs might change as you advance through your career. Below we detail the opportunities available for every career stage.

Arts and leisure, Personal development, Language, Arts and leisure

Read which conditions apply when registering for an event.

Workshop

Career development, Transferable skills

Before you start creating text and visual content for your educational video, make sure you have a clear picture of your learning objectives and how you are going to assess these. When you have established these, you can further develop what you want to teach. Keep in mind that there is already a lot…

Integration of research and teaching is one of the ambitions of our vision on teaching and learning (Learning@LeidenUniversity).

The Compulsory Identification Act (WID) stipulates that employers must establish the identity of employees when they enter their employment. This also applies for employment agency staff and interns. When you start work at the University, you therefore have to show a valid identity document. A copy…

In order to realize our lifelong development ambitions, we distinguish four action lines, with various actions under them.

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Further development

If you wish to come to the Netherlands there are certain immigration procedures you need to follow. The Service Centre International Staff will help you with all of these. We will provide you with checklists, an immigration wizard and an overview of all immigration formalities. This way you will be…

Working in a laboratory is different from working in an office. Some of the rules that apply when working in or around a laboratory are given below.

Our Research Funding Community continuously gathers intelligence that helps with preparing proposals efficiently and to give them the necessary competitive edge. All grant advisors are happy to share this information, and to guide you throughout the process. For quick reference, this page summarises…

The Terms of Employment Individual Choices Model gives you some freedom to select your own terms and conditions.

Our Research Funding Community continuously gathers intelligence that helps with preparing proposals efficiently and to give them the necessary competitive edge. All grant advisors are happy to share this information, and to guide you throughout the process. For quick reference, this page summarises…

You have chosen to do a PhD track at the Faculty of Humanities. Doing a PhD's no small feat, what do you need to know when your start conducting research for a PhD?

Education

Festival

Festival

Whether you’re giving a course for the first time or aiming to update your learning objectives or teaching formats, effective education starts with good course design. This step-by-step plan will help you create or innovate your course: from learning objectives to teaching formats.

If your research project involves collecting private or otherwise sensitive data, you must ensure adequate data protection measures are taken. Research must be conducted in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In terms of patient data, for instance, when used for research carried…

Every member of staff at Leiden University is given a ULCN account. You can use this ULCN account to log in to your computer, the wifi network and various other ICT systems.

Bachelor, Master, Short Course, PhD

Diversity

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure