1,075 search results for “activity” in the Staff website
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Let’s talk more about adversity’
How can we help our students build resilience and prevent unnecessary stress? And how do we break the taboo on failure? These and other questions are what study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff discussed at the staff symposium on student well-being at PLNT.
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Exploring educational experiments: pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.
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Change manager Frans de Haas is working on the future of the MI
Frans de Haas started his work at the MI with a clear mandate. Listening and talking are what he will mainly be doing ‘My role is to make sure that everyone feels comfortable in the new situation.’
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What should be done differently at the University? Three lead candidates respond
From the workload to sustainability: the University Council helps decide on important topics. In the University elections – from 9 to 13 May – you can vote for who will represent you on the Council. Three questions to the three lead candidates of the staff parties: PhDoc, Universitair Belang and Leidse…
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‘It doesn’t feel like work’: what it’s like to be a mentor for Pre-University College
Guiding high school students as a mentor at Pre-University College: what is that like? And what does it all entail? As part of the 20th anniversary of PRE-College Leiden, we asked two experienced PRE-mentors about their job - and what makes their work so meaningful. ‘You really see them grow.’
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Interfaculty theme leads gather at kickoff meeting
The leads for our new interfaculty themes recently met for the first time. We asked three of them what opportunities their theme presents to society, the university and individual staff?
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Leiden Research Support: ‘We aim to be the one stop where researchers get their questions answered’
From forwarding promising calls and arranging budgets to assisting in legal issues and keeping track of important deadlines: to associate professor Roxanne Kieltyka, the research support offered by project managers Inge Rietveld en Christina Schlüpen is fundamental. ‘The combination of our expertise…
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Online training - writing and pitching for The Conversation
Online training
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LCN2 seminar January 2026
Lecture
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Tap dance intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Musical (Singing/dance/theater) | Intermediate/advanced
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Botanical lino printing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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AI and education: what does it mean for your course?
Course
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Qualitative Methods for Social Scientists
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Knowledge utilisation
Research
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Tail Regeneration in the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)
PhD defence
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LCN2 seminar November 2025
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
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Online training - writing and pitching for The Conversation
Online training
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: De geologie van het zonnestelsel: de prachtige planetaire paralellen van tastbare gesteenten en inspirerende landschappen
Lecture
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Managing group work
Didactics
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Night of the Lobbyist 2026
Evenement
- Meijerslezing 2025 en Nieuwjaarsreceptie
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Quantitative Empirical Research Methods in Law
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Tap Dance beginners
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Lorentz Lecture - Why study islands?
Lecture
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Bake Initiative
Study support
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Botanical drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Discover Leiden's Relief
Staff Association
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We are Science Week
Festival
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Mutation-Driven Modulation of GPCR Pharmacology: Insights from Adenosine and Serotonin Receptors
PhD defence
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Musical (singing/dance/theater) | beginners/intermediate
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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RISE Network Lunch: Career Stories & Choices
Conference
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Investigating lipid formulations for efficient RNA delivery using zebrafish models
PhD defence
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A university conversation on Israel/Palestine
Debate
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Qualitative Empirical Research Methods in Law | Introductory Course for PPP-students
Research
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From Atoms to Asteroids: How Chemistry Governs the Birth of Planets
Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture
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Open Science Week at Archaeology: Let's talk about publishing
Festival
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From a Biased Perspective: Quasars, Mergers, and Planet-Forming Discs
PhD defence
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Explore! Career Opportunities Beyond Academia
Research, Communication
- Orange the World 2025 – Campaign Against Violence Towards Women
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When Deafness Enters the System: Family Dynamics and Psychosocial Functioning of Preschool Children
PhD defence
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Staff symposium on student well-being: Resilience through connection
Conference
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Twenty-five lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Twenty-five passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 12 January. Five of these lecturers talk about how the SKO has benefitted them and what they think ‘good teaching’ is.
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‘Universities are changing, but they remain essential to society’
From academic freedom to security and medical breakthroughs: during Leiden University’s 451st Dies Natalis, the speakers reflected on the role of universities in a world of social and geopolitical tensions.