As coordinator and lead promoter respectively of the Leiden Healthy Society Center, psychologists Sandra van Dijk and Anke Klein use interdisciplinary collaboration to resolve the major health problems of the present day. How are they going to do that in the coming period?

The whole world is waiting anxiously for sufficient supplies of coronavirus vaccines. As Launch Navigator at Pfizer, alumnus Dennis de Mik must help ensure that the Netherlands receives 19.8 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. How is he going about this and how has his Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences…

Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor Arjen Boin, have written a book about the response to the pandemic. ‘Our current system isn’t geared towards identifying and managing a long-term crisis,’…

The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…

Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…

Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forward Party and banned him from politics. He now reflects publicly on the policy values that brought the party to prominence.

After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…

It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.

Jyothi Thrivikraman set up a Virtual International Collaboration project with a university in Myanmar.

What was the year like for the FGGA faculty board & office? A number of departments share what 2021 was like for them.

Meijerslezing, Meijersprijzen en Van Wersch springplankprijs en Nieuwjaarsreceptie 2024

Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.

During Cyberweek, from 17-24 October, the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) highlighted its research and teaching on cybersecurity, digital developments, and their impact on society.

For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can once again go to the office. After a period of working from home, which for some lasted almost two years (with maybe a short break), it can be a big transition.…

As I cycle to work in the morning, along Rapenburg to the Huizinga Building, I sometimes stop and dismount. The early morning silence and the rising sun that casts a spotlight on the Academy Building can be enchanting. On those days, I use the moment to take a photograph. I already have quite a collection.…

The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.

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The dissertation explores the complex interplay between financial scarcity and its psychological effects, shedding light on its impact on decision-making, avoidance behavior, and perceived control. Through a series of experiments, we found that financial scarcity increases temporal discounting,…

While Asian Muslims comprise a majority of the global Muslim community both historically and today, Islam is not often thought of as an Asian religion or tradition. Asian Islam tends to be overlooked, excluded, or considered derivative of a supposedly normative and authentic Islam, defined as Middle…

Book launch

CMGI Brown Bag Seminar

Photo credits: Aminudahiru (via Wikimedia Commons). This event will be held physically in Leiden. For registrees who cannot travel to Leiden a link to an online platform will be sent one day before the start of the event. Despite cultural differences and socio-economic disparities, (other) animals,…

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Symposium

This European Initiative for Security Studies hybrid and online Seminar will discuss Dr. Friso Stevens' forthcoming article Forecasting Finlandization: How will Xi’s China seek to revise East Asia’s regional order?, exploring Xi Jinping's foreign policy doctrine and its implications for China-US…

A livestream for this conference will be arranged. See below for more details.

Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar

Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing Only when three major statements on open access were made, in respectively Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin, science policy and research funding got deeper involved in the open science movement, leading to the development…

Conference

On Monday, 25 September 2023, Professor Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will lead the inaugural session of the Seminar Series on Modern North American History, jointly organized by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg and the Sciences Po Center for History…

All are welcome, however please register in advance at l-peg@hum.leidenuniv.nl to receive a copy of the paper and lunch.

Are you working on, or interested in, doctoral training programmes, doctoral supervision or graduate school administration? Or are you a PhD candidate? If so, please join colleagues from across Europe at this two-day workshop to collectively design a Doctoral Interdisciplinary Methods Training (DIMT)…

Lecture, This Time for Africa series

On this page we've bundled the best practices which will be presented during the Education Market of 19 June 2025.

Prof. Tayelor describes her recent research analyzing existing data and documents to explore the lives and social relations of the growing number of older adults who, in the context of population aging, are without a living spouse or children at the time they develop dementia.

Leiden University is a key player when it comes to research on migration and citizenship. On 17 January 2024 the Leiden interdisciplinary profile area Social Citizenship and Migration will hold its annual symposium showcasing the work carried out in Leiden, as well as our connections…

12.00 Welcome by Bart Barendregt 12.05 Wilco van Dijk Financial stress: from bad to worse 12.25 Erik Bähre Quality in the Market? Perspectives on Healthcare and Insurance in Brazil 12.45 Questions/discussion moderated by Annemarie Samuels 13.00 Afsluiting

Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in Tøyen, a neighborhood in central Oslo, Norway, this book chapter in progress analyzes the ways that various actors discursively define the boundaries of the neighborhood, and the consequences that that work has for the people who live there. Local…

Research

Thinking about applying for a Comenius Scholarship? During this lunchbyte, you will get practical information on how to apply. Furthermore, colleagues who have been awarded the scholarship will tell you more about how they prepared their application and project. Topics that will be covered include:…

Prof. S.J. Truxal Prof. B. Barentsen Summary In the evolving civil aviation market, diverse business models and employment relations have led to a hybrid and complex labour landscape. This complexity results in insufficient labour protection due to factors such as forum shopping, atypical…

Hybrid Book Talk | SSEALS

Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture

The workshop targets PhD candidates who would like to start publishing in academic journals. It consists of two parts: An interactive lecture (theoretical part) and a roundtable with publishers (practice)

Prof.dr. J.B. Gewald Prof.dr. R. Beneduce Prof.dr. W.E.A. van Beek Summary This thesis describes the socio-political dynamics in Dogon country, in central Mali. Since 2015, this region has experienced an unprecedented phenomenon of armed mobilization. Various insurgent (jihadist) and counterinsurgent…