An important question being asked, both in the academic world and in society, concerns the impact of our research and education. By providing a well-supported answer, we not only create a strong position for our research, we also increase our chances of success in applying for research grants and retaining…

As a PhD candidate, you are expected to follow certain courses and training programmes in the context of your training as researcher.

Your funding needs might change as you advance through your career. Below we detail the opportunities available for every career stage.

If you’re experiencing a problem at work, you may want support in resolving it. Perhaps you feel that your manager is never satisfied with your work, or you’re unhappy with certain decisions. The confidential advisor for personnel affairs can help you find a solution.

Didactics, Career development

How can you ensure that your research hits the headlines? How can you bring your research output, such as PhD research or a publication, to the attention of the public?

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Congratulations on your awarded grant. Here is a checklist of what to do next and who you will need to involve to get your project started.

When moving to the Netherlands, it is important to know whether you are considered resident tax payer or non-resident. Both residents and non-residents are taxed on their taxable income. A number of criteria help determine your status as resident or non-resident.

An ORCID iD is a unique code that identifies you as a scientist in a reliable and consistent way, much like the social security number in a passport. DOI does the same but for a scientific publication instead of a person. DOI and ORCID iD are examples of persistent identifiers.

Communication, Personal development, Diversity

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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…

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).

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What distinguishes a documentary from other formats is that it uses people and situations in real life to give voice to different opinions, provide a statement on a societal phenomenon and/or give insight into a world that is not easily accessible. If you want to record a documentary, it is important…

Career development, Working effectively, Leadership

If you wish to share files with colleagues within or outside the university, you can save these files in the cloud. You can do this with Office 365 or OneDrive. If your files are too large to be send by e-mail, you can use SURFfilesender.

Career development, Leadership

Studying with a disability often costs additional time and energy. Leiden University wants to do all it can to offer equal chances to students with a disability. What can you do to support a student with a disability?

You can apply for an exemption from parking fees when you demonstrably disabled or when you have to park on different parking lots for your commute.

Do you want advice with the ICT that supports your lectures? Or do you need help using Brightspace? Your ICT & Education Coordinator is available for all your questions.

If you have business contacts, you may at some point be offered a gift: a physical object or a service or advantage. What gifts can you accept without allowing your integrity to be called into question?

This toolkit provides practical tools to contribute to open communication and a safe working environment. You will learn how to effectively connect, speak up and actively listen to understand each other's interests. In addition, the tools help address issues, make agreements and give and receive constructive…

Didactics

Are you looking for a contact person, because you for instance have a question about privacy, or you need a ULCN guest or uSis account? Or do you need a manual or application form? Below you will find more information.

From workplace to Wi-Fi, from changing your password to using Microsoft 365 and OneDrive: Here you will find the University's ICT information.

Leiden University strives to accommodate research talent, which is why it does its best to create an inspiring environment for PhD candidates. Therefore, we offer a training program for PhDs that is both complete and challenging. That is why we offer a training program for PhDs that is both complete…

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Standard software is provided through the Software Centre.

Here you will find questions and answers about GROW, the types of interviews, the GROW tile and more.

Brightspace is Leiden University's digital learning environment. With Brightspace you can share course materials, grades and updates with your students. You can create and evaluate assignments and quizzes, perform plagiarism checks, provide personalised feedback and peer-feedback, and start discussi…

Within our university, we believe it is important to remain in dialogue with each other, to hear what is going on, and to take steps together. This allows us to build an environment in which we can work and grow together.

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Did you forget your password and do you want to request a new one? Do you want to modify storage for a workgroup, including access rights? Or do you want to submit another request for our ICT services or products? Please use the forms below.

The GROW toolkit provides you with all kinds of tools that make it easier to participate in the GROW interviews. In addition to useful documents for preparing the start interview and annual interview, it also contains a wide range of training courses and workshops that help you with participating in…

Research, Transferable skills

The Events Office is happy to help organise an online event, but you can also do it yourself. You will find resources and support for this on this page.

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…

Leiden University Scholarly Publications is a database of publications by academics from and institutions affiliated to Leiden University. Researchers and PhD candidates use LUCRIS Publication Management (PM) to add publications (except for doctoral theses) to the Repository. Wherever possible, publications…

University Leiden encourages its employees to use and develop their talents. We do this by supporting you in your career and in your personal and professional development. We try to ensure that you get the opportunity to realise your full potential.

Do you want to see the salary scales? Do you want to know what your basic leave entitlement is? Or do you want to submit an expense claim? Below you find information about terms of employment, salary and allowance.

As a standard, your workplace comes equipped with a limited amount of disk space. We offer a number of options for extending your disk space. In addition, ISSC can help you recover lost files. You can also securely store your files in the cloud via OneDrive and Teams. Whichever storage you use, be aware…

Arts and leisure, Personal development, Language, Arts and leisure

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