Anton Cahyadi is an external PhD candidate at the Van Vollenhoven Institute.

Anton van Velzen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.

Dr. Gerlov van Engelenhoven is an assistant professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), teaching courses on postcolonial memory, law & culture, and cultural interaction. His most recent book is titled Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences.…

Sanne Rotmeijer works as a postdoc researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) in the ERC-project ARTIVES and as a lecturer in International and Urban Studies at the Leiden University (Campus The Hague).

Annida Aqiila Putri is a PhD Candidate at IHE Delft and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Her research focuses on justice in the institutionalization of citizen science towards collaborative environmental compliance assurance.

Alan Palacios is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Arts in Society.

Lude Rozema teaches statistics and research methods at the Institute of Education and Child Studies at Leiden University.

Jennifer Doekhie is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues is a university lecturer at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her background is in Lusophone Studies and in her research on postcolonial cultural identities she combines cultural analysis, in-depth interviews and creative participatory methods.

Paula Kemp is related as a doctoral researcher to the Institute for Private Law of the University Leiden since September 2016.

Research into our history of colonialism and slavery, heart-to-heart conversations at a Keti Koti table, exhibitions, lectures and podcasts that establish the link between present and past. Staff and students participated in the national Slavery Memorial Year in many different ways. What have we learned…

Liesbeth Kanis is Head of the Library, Documentation and Information (LDI) Department at the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL). She is in charge of collection, strategy, policy and operations.

From February 2021 until August 2025, Lisa Ansems was a postdoctoral researcher and assistant professor at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology. She is currently affiliated with the institute as a guest researcher.

Thomas Willems is a PhD candidate at the Department of Clinical Psychology and his research focuses on the mechanisms and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Specifically, the aim of his PhD-project is to reduce the gap between experimental research that is done in the laboratory, and…

How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.

From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…

The complete Johan Huizinga, the single most important historian of the Netherlands, is now available worldwide through the new Huizinga Online website. Huizinga’s scholarly archive, his Verzamelde Werken and his correspondence have been made digitally accessible by Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…

On January 13, Prof. mr. Rick Lawson, dean of the Faculty of Law, handed over to Prof. mr. Carel Stolker, Rector of Leiden University, a binding with rare law disputations. The book is a present of the Law Faculty to the University on behalf of its 440th anniversary (1575).

The Dutch universities will give Open Access an extra boost from 2019 by starting a pilot titled ‘You share, we take care’ to make publications available after six months in collaboration with researchers.

Yara Abbing is affiliated to the Institute Criminal Law & Criminology as PhD candidate since September 1, 2025.

Stefan van der Vorm did his PhD research at Leiden University in the field of carbohydrate synthesis. He is currently a lecturer of organic chemistry courses in the bachelor and master programmes of the LIC. His research interests are focused on synthetic methodology in organic chemistry and specifically…

Eva Schmidt is PhD researcher at the Department of Child Law, Institute for Private Law since the 1st of September 2018.

The quality of the landscape is a good indicator of the health of a society.

Linda Breeman’s research focuses on promoting health behaviour and lifestyle changes, specializing in (eHealth) intervention development and intervention implementation in complex systems.

Rehana Dole has worked as a Research and Education staff member at the Institute of Private Law's Department of Child Law since 15 September 2022.

Natalia is a lecturer and researcher. Her research interests lie at the intersection between business management and data science.

In the past few decades, LGBTQ+ acceptance has come a long way. Coming out, however, is still a difficult experience for many people on a personal level. Everyone’s story is different and not everyone belongs to a clear denomination within the LGBTQ+ spectrum. That is why learning about the personal…