Transferable skills

Katinka Zeven is a lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. Her research focuses on the impact of translation choices on female and racial stereotypes in literary works.

Koos Biesmeijer, Professor of Natural Capital, and Claire van Megen, an Educational and Child Studies student, are in with a chance of winning Leiden’s Person of the Year title.

By way of appropriate 'Twitter-Vlog thank you's', the Dean of LUC Judi Mesman and FGGA Scientific Directors Bernard Steunenberg (BSK) and Joachim Koops (ISGA) sent their personal wishes and gratitude to Rector Carel Stolker, who will hand over the rectorship to incoming rector Hester Bijl on 8 February…

Jeffrey Fynn-Paul is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Kelly Ziemer teaches several courses in the Bachelors and Masters program and is affiliated with the Developmental and Educational Psychology department.

Esther Edelmann is a University Lecturer in modern and contemporary literature. Her teaching and research activities focus on the intersections between literature and law, literature and political economy, and culture and environmental humanities. She teaches in literature programs, International Studies,…

I specialize in modern Japanese history, with particular expertise in Japanse imperialism and the social and cultural history of the 1920s-1940s.

The Dutch police force has been deliberately storing personal data relating to millions of Dutch people for many years now. In doing so, the institution has been knowingly breaking the law. Bart Schermer, Professor of Law and Digital Technology expressed his concerns on Follow the Money – a platform…

In Dutch magazine Elsevier, Marieke Liem explains the issues with using the term ‘troubled person‘ in reports on homocide.

I am a social anthropologist, trained at Harvard (BA) and SOAS, University of London (MARes, PhD), with a broad interest in urban spaces and the forces that shape our lives in and around them. I have conducted fieldwork in North, Western and East Africa on topics ranging from informal housing, gendered…

Yinzhi Zhang is a Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

A peer educator intervention can give pupils more knowledge and awareness about their LGBT peers, and sometimes also a more positeve view. This is the subject of Marieke Kroneman's dissertation. Defence on 15 September.

It increasingly seems that Elon Musk has taken it upon himself to decide what can and cannot be said on Twitter. He bought the platform with the message that there would be room to say whatever you desired, but he himself is casting doubts on that principle.

With ongoing protests across Iran, many are asking whether the regime is on the brink of collapse. Three Leiden experts share their perspectives.

Markus Davidsen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

How do harrowing war experiences affect different generations? Students have made a video about poignant family stories. They interviewed other students and writer Dubravka Ugrešić. The premiere of the film was on 4 May during the online Hour of Remembrance. Watch this online memorial.

Esther Zwinkels is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

(Anastasia) Chi Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology

My research focuses on science and innovation and in particular the interface between them, integrating various disciplinary perspectives, such as public policy, sociology, economics, and psychology.

Frank Pieke is a Professor Emeritus of Modern China Studies at the Institute for Area Studies.

Tim is Assistent Professor at the department of Business Studies. His research focuses on the (business) economics fundamentals, especially the theory of the firm and the co-evolution of companies and markets in complexity economics.

Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…

Tsolin Nalbantian (MA NYU, 2003; PhD Columbia, 2011) is an Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History. She focuses on diasporas, minorities, and the modern political and social history of Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and the Caucasus.

Alumni event, Lustrum

Charlotte Holt is a second year International Justice student at Leiden University College. She did an internship at Academia Neerlandesa; a language school that offers Dutch language courses to medical professionals. ‘An internship can become very beneficial for those who wants to discover where their…

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André Gerrits is Professor Emeritus of International Studies and Global Politics.

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Cisca Hoogendijk is a guest researcher at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.