Simone Rijksen is participating as a dual PhD Candidate in the Leiden University Dual PhD Centre The Hague programme. Working title dissertation: 'Kenmerken en condities van reflectieve dialoog in de context van samenwerkende en samen lerende docenten in het Nederlandse basisonderwijs'. (Characteristics…

Webinar

De Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA) heeft een facultair team opgesteld om invulling te geven aan Academia in Motion (AiM).

Conference

The Faculty of Humanities’ On-Campus Master’s Experience Day was a pleasantly busy event. The information sessions and corresponding information market went down well with interested undergraduates.

Conference

Conference, Exhibition

The Faculty's Academia in Motion (fAiM) Roadshow has embarked on an inspiring journey across our institutes. The goal? To work together with all the expertise within the faculty towards a cultural transformation focused on Recognition & Rewards and Open Science.

What began as a PhD project has grown into a website with 120,000 unique visitors each year. With the platform OpenML, researcher Jan van Rijn is contributing to open science, aiming to make machine learning more transparent, accessible, and fair.

Felix Smits is dedicated to energy research using plasma technology and radio waves. Since climate change cannot wait for nuclear fusion to become commercially viable, he combines his broad experience to develop the TECH microwave plasma reactor, which is the missing technology link in a circular power…

Carbohydrates, the most diverse and complex class of biomolecules in Nature, are the focus of the research of Jeroen Codée, who aims to unravel their mode of action through the design and synthesis of well-defined glycocojugates as well as inhibitors and probes.

Exhibition

Paul Gobée (LUMC), Kirsty Rolfe (Humanities) and Frank Takes (Science) have been nominated for the Leiden Teaching Prize 2023.

Lecture, Open Mic

PhD defence

PhD defence

You may know it by the umbrella term 'citizen science'. You may also use terms such as volunteer mapping, patient co-researcher, or even community engaged learning to describe participatory practices in your research or teaching. No matter what you call it, there’s plenty going on when it comes to this…

As of 1 December 2024, Uta Wehn is professor by special appointment of the chair 'Citizen Science and Sustainability' within the Focal Area Engagement and Inclusion at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. The new chair has been established jointly by CWTS and IHE…

Workshop

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) and the Ethical Data Initiative (EDI) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at fostering a collaborative partnership to advance responsible data initiatives and enhance communication within the realms of…

Lecture

Working title: 'Peer education for promoting positive attitudes towards LGBT students in pre-vocational schools'. Dual PhD candidate at Leiden University Dual PhD Centre.

From sponsored runs to festivals and from open days to concerts: Leiden University hosts lots of events each year. We are highlighting six of them for 2023.

Lecture, Booklaunch - CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press

Open Mic

For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers from Leiden cast doubts on this certainty. We spoke to researchers Andreea…

Mariëlle Bruning is a Professor of Child Law at Leiden Law School.

I am an assistant professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and Principal Investigator of the Social Intelligence Modelling [SIM] lab. I am a lecturer in the Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) and Creative Science & Technology (CrIT) programmes. In 2023…

Workshop

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,’…

April is the month of showers and tulip fields but did you know that it is also Global Citizen Science Month? And the future of our Leiden citizen science community looks rosy, says coordinator Margaret Gold. She is happy to come and tell you all about this − and to exchange knowledge and ideas. ‘See…

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture