This page is helpful if you want to produce knowledge clips, ask your students to work with multimedia themselves or ‘flip’ your teaching with video or audio material.

Images are an increasingly important part of communication, but how do you choose suitable ones for the website and where can you find them? This page offers tips on finding the right image and what to watch out for.

Looking for an easy way to compile, order or view readers online? Then meet ReaderOnline. The instructions below will help you on your way.

The Knowledge Security Committee plays a central role in the decision-making and organisation relating to knowledge security within the university. Internationally oriented collaboration initiatives can be submitted to this committee (via the Knowledge Security Advice Desk) with a request to assess…

The Expat facility is a tax measure for employees from abroad and employees sent abroad by the University. Under specific conditions the employer may provide a maximum of 30% of your income in the form of an allowance for a temporary stay in the Netherlands or abroad. This allowance for so-called extra-territorial…

Would you like to request a training course for your team or meeting? Leiden University offers basic training courses suitable for all employees as well as specific training courses focused on the unique risks within your department or team.

Leiden University College (LUC), an institute of Leiden University in The Hague – the international city of peace, justice, and security – offers the English-taught Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges since 2010. Inspired by the American university college model, LUC combines…

Keep in mind a fellow researcher: someone who knows your area of expertise, but not necessarily as well as you do. Are your files understandable as they are, or do they need cleaning enhancement? Keep the right balance: make sure the metadata is sufficient for reuse, but do not get carried away and…

All the sources (both textual and visual) you use for your educational video or online course need to meet the requirements of Dutch copyright law. Below, you’ll find some guidelines for how to include references and attributions for visual resources in your video work, and where to find usable imagery…

Employees and students of Leiden University have access to Brightspace and other software with their ULCN-account. For others without a ULCN-account, like guest lecturers or teaching assistants, SEEDS can provide a guest account.

The Prospectus contains an overview of all study programmes and courses offered by Leiden University. It is important to keep the information about your course up to date.

As of 6 October 2025, Leiden University has incorporated three key HR processes into a new platform: the Talent and Development Platform.

Leiden University supports lecturers in designing and delivering high-quality education. Here you can find more information about the vision on teaching and learning, didactic tools and regulations, as well as answers to questions such as: How can I make my lectures interactive? Where can I find the…

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The SSH labs accommodate many types of research. The different types of labs were created after close consultation with researchers and offer a wealth of possibilities.

In certain circumstances, you may be entitled to short or long-term special leave. Emergency leave is leave that you may take if you need to take immediate time off from work to deal with sudden emergencies or exceptional personal circumstances.

We all occasionally receive an email from an unknown sender, with content we weren’t expecting or that raises our suspicions in some other way. This is usually a fake email, also known as a phishing email. In fact, there are various types of phishing: it can also be done over the phone.

Team Marketing at Leiden University is the central point of contact for everything related to recruiting bachelor’s and master’s students, both nationally and internationally. Activities are carried out in a data-driven, strategic, and creative way to strengthen the University’s brand and guide prospective…

Leiden University uses Security staff for access control and large or sensitive events.

A web lecture is a lecture that’s recorded on campus and available online. You can decide for yourself whether to offer the lecture via a livestream and/or make it available for later viewing.

Communication, Research, Transferable skills

Personal development, Transferable skills

Do you want to post an announcement or report any content that needs changing? If so, please contact the web editorial team for your faculty or department.

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Here you will find an overview of the remaining professional development opportunities available to you as a lecturer at Leiden University, offered internally and externally.

Research, Transferable skills

Communication, Research, Transferable skills

Communication, Leadership, Management, Personal development

The Expertise Centre for Teaching and Learning (ECOLe) is the go-to place for support for all faculty members at the Faculty of Humanities. We provide assistance with all questions related to didactics, professional development, and the use of digital tools in teaching.

Louie Buana, a PhD candidate at the Institute for History, has been awarded the 5th Philippus Corts Fund grant, together with Wengki Ariando and Adrian Perkasa, for their joint book project 'Whose Nusantara? New narratives on decolonizing Indonesian knowledge and archipelagic futures'. The goal of the…

The Healthy Society Programme (HSP) has selected five scale-up projects for a special acceleration grant, giving successful health initiatives the opportunity to be rolled out more widely across the province of South Holland. One of these projects is StartKracht, led by clinical psychologist Anika B…

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You can suggest topics that need to be addressed in these FAQs. Please contact us at our usual email addresses and phone number(s).

Together we create a healthy and safe working environment. Should an incident, dangerous situation or needle-stick injury nevertheless occur, please report it immediately. Such incidents are far more frequent than serious accidents. By reporting them we can make sure that they do not lead to serious…

We want to make it easy for you to do your work at Leiden University. Find out how to submit queries, get help, log issues or request other services.

When putting together your assessment, it may be useful to use an assessment matrix. This is a table in which you link the learning objectives to test questions and indicate the weight you give each objective in the assessment. It can be requested in the context of a programme accreditation.

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From the start of your PhD you make agreements with your supervisors concerning your personal development and the supervision you receive. These agreements should be recorded in a Training and Supervision Plan. This plan contains agreements concerning your research, supervision, training, and potential…

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Every curriculum and course has to adhere to certain rules and regulations. These are defined in the OER, the Course and Examination Regulations (Onderwijs- en Examenregeling).

During a reorganisation, the University does its utmost to avoid redundancies, regardless of whether these relate to the University as a whole, to an institute or to a department of a faculty or service.

The University image database contains University images for use in printed materials and websites. The purpose of the image database is to create a central distribution source for all University images.

Leiden University encourages international exchange and cooperation. Here you will find more information regarding procedures for staying abroad and establishing partnerships, as well as answers to questions such as: How do I prepare well for a trip? How do I start an international collaboration? And…

Researchers in all SSH labs can count on comprehensive support in their research. Technical support is available on site during office hours. The lab manager will also be present as much as possible.

The digital accessibility expert group focuses on improving the accessibility of the university website, digital learning tools and digital examinations. As a result of the corona crisis many educational activities are now online. The group is therefore working closely with the Centre for Innovation…