4,153 search results for “sociale” in the Staff website
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Better health begins close to home (and not in the doctor’s surgery)
Should we ban snack bars from neighbourhoods where residents are overweight or have diabetes? At the Common Sense about Health knowledge festival, scientists, civil servants and other professionals discussed how South Holland can become healthier. The Healthy Society Map makes it clear where there are…
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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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PhD candidate Sinéad is a Europaeum Scholar: ‘There’s no other programme quite like this’
Sinéad Mulcahy recently started the Europaeum Scholars Programme, a two-year policy and leadership course for a group of thirty talented and committed PhD candidates from universities across Europe. She is already enthusiastic – both about the programme and her fellow scholars. ‘I would like to bring…
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Why International Women’s Day still matters: insights from three experts
The Netherlands is known globally for being a champion of equality. But is it really? On 8 March, International Women's Day, three Leiden experts reflect on this year's national theme: #NietMijnRecht (#NotMyRight)
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IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now
Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports released this week, the panel calls on governments worldwide to develop coherent policies that address biodiversity, climate change, water, food and health.…
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Beyond iced coffee and face masks: ‘True self-care is about emotional awareness and living according to your values’
In hun klinische stage leren Psychologiestudenten mentale steun bieden aan anderen, maar hoe zorgen zij als toekomstige therapeut ook voor zichzelf? Met video’s, podcasts en een panel wil Kelly Ziemer haar studenten de nodige zelfzorg-skills bijbrengen.
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Symposium report: get out of your silo and become a better scientist
How do you set up a successful collaboration between science and practice? That was the main theme of the final meeting of a triptych of symposia on how Leiden University can improve inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration.
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Six projects that have come about thanks to the Quality Agreements
With its ‘Quality Agreements’, Leiden University is working to improve the quality of its teaching. Much has been done since they began at the end of 2018. At a meeting for delegates from all the faculties and the University Council on 11 June, it became clear just how much has already been achieved…
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Grants for AI in healthcare, computing with light and climate-resilient cities
Researchers at the Faculty of Science work at the frontiers of knowledge every day, tackling today’s major societal challenges. Their work is recognised through grants, prizes and other awards. We highlight some of these achievements below.
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Leiden Declaration: AI is challenging the core values of mathematics
In the ‘Leiden Declaration’, an international group of researchers warns that AI is putting fundamental values of the discipline under threat. The rise of AI is forcing mathematics to rethink what makes their field reliable and valuable. This is their proposed way forward.
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Becoming an inclusive university
Conference, D&I Event
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Staff symposium on student well-being 'Today's Students'
Conference
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Imagistic Care: Growing Old in a Precarious World
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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From War on Drugs to Criminal Governance: Mexico’s Security Dilemmas
Lecture
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The Loyalty Trap: Federal Civil Servants Under Trump
Lecture, Event
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Immaterielles kulturelles Erbe, kollektive Identität und Bildung in der Ixil-Region, El Quiché, Guatemala
PhD defence
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LCN2 seminar January 2026
Lecture
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Contested Mobility: Free African Americans and the Law in the U.S. South, 1790-1830s
PhD defence
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Unbefitting healing objects?
PhD defence
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General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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European strategy and the quest for resilience in global supply chains of semiconductors
Lecture
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Opening of Presenting with the City On Tour
Conference, Exhibition
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Book Publishing for Junior Scholars 2025
Conference, Workshop
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Marietje Schaake - Hans Franken Lecture
Lecture
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Developments in local politics research
Lecture
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Forum for Mexican Students
Event
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Convenience and community: How Armenians entered and settled in Venice and Amsterdam, 1650-1730
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- Lecture and Dialogue session "Sustainable Employability"
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
Lecture
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Webinar: Work & Communicate Smarter Digitally and Improve Your Work-Life Balance
Course
- Stone Oil, Strange Rocks, and the Origins of Chinese Geoaesthetics
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Trump’s Effect on Academia and Administration – Panel Talk with Professor Donald Moynihan on 26 May
Lecture
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LCN2 seminar March 2025
Lecture
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PhD Career Event: Finding your career inside or outside academia
Career development
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UnToLD: Unraveling cultural historical dimensions of contemporary experiences of tiredness of life among older adults
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Exhibition: Law of images
Exhibition, Art exhibition
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Open Science Week 2025
Festival
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The Unseen Saints of Islam: Sufi Ritual and Religious Worldmaking in Java
PhD defence
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Suicides in Lithuania in the late 19th − early 20th centuries
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Webinar: Ethical Review of Student Research – Best-practices and future development
Webinar
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate Conference 2025
Conference
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To metaphor or not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Hard bargains: politics of debt and investment in the EU
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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7th NINO Annual Meeting 2026
Annual Meeting
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Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan
Lecture
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Can Neurodiversity be a Lens to Study Sufism?
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Captive Entanglements: Slavery, Medicine, and Natural Inquiry in Early Modern Italy
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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"What Were They Thinking?" Using Open-Text Responses to Validate Constructs in Survey Experiments
Lecture
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When the Rains Came: A Medieval Moment in South Asia
Lecture, VVIK lecture