6,227 search results for “leiden” in the Staff website
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Building on a healthy, engaged and learning community’
Over 200 staff from Leiden University discussed student well-being with one another and students at the Staff Symposium on Student Well-being. In various workshops and lectures, lecturers, student advisers, student counsellors and other staff members discussed how they could contribute to our students’…
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Greater job satisfaction thanks to a career coach: ‘All the puzzle pieces fell into place’
You need not be completely miserable in your current job to start a discussion about your professional development. And if internal career coaching still feels like too big a step, you can take a look at the university’s Career Platform instead.
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other projects will receive funding from the JEDI Fund in 2023.
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Executive Board column: Let’s be alert to unacceptable behaviour
This is a difficult time. Above all, for all those directly involved in this horrible case – unacceptable behaviour by a professor and his removal from the University – the case we went public about on 18 October and that has been reported in the media. This is painful and tough for the complainants…
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Podcasts as assessment method? 5 tips from the educational testing ground
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: pioneering with podcasts. What are the do's and don'ts? Two teachers and a student share their thoughts.
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Renske Janssen is the winner of the LUCAS Dissertation Prize 2021
The LUCAS Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Dr. Renske Janssen for her PhD thesis Religio Illicita? Roman Legal Interactions with Early Christianity in Context.
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The long-awaited UN Summit of the Future has ended − what are the results?
Many saw the UN Summit of the Future as the moment of truth for the United Nations and its plans for the world. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law, explains the results.
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Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
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Rector Hester Bijl on education in times of corona: ‘We have high hopes, but we are also realistic.'
The Dutch universities as a whole are lobbying for a 'normal' academic year from the end of August, where on-campus teaching will be possible. It's a view that Leiden University shares. Rector Hester Bijl talks about what teaching will be like then. She also looks back on a year of lockdown.
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‘Media appearances are less scary than you might think’: Researchers share their top tips
As a researcher, it can be fun and useful to talk to the media about your work. But on what terms should you agree to do an interview or appear on a talk show? And how do you tell an engaging story? The Media Guide for Researchers is here to help. Three colleagues share their top tips.
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New: Teaching staff need to log on and log off in lecture rooms
Education, ICT
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Timo Kos: ‘We want our buildings to be as open and safe as possible’
Speaking for the Executive Board, Timo Kos reflects on the university’s security policy and what lies ahead. ‘We want to keep our buildings open, but we also need to be able to guarantee the safety of everyone there. It’s a real balancing act.’
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Interdisciplinary minor ’Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits from this approach? Students and lecturers evaluate: ‘This minor’s a goldmine’.
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Annetje Ottow on a safe (and unsafe) environment: ‘An open dialogue is crucial’
Revelations about unacceptable behaviour and sexual misconduct in the TV and sporting world have rekindled the public debate about a safe environment. At Leiden University we are coming together to prevent unacceptable behaviour and provide proper care and support for victims. According to President…
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Staff symposium on student well-being: ‘Let’s talk more about adversity’
How can we help our students build resilience and prevent unnecessary stress? And how do we break the taboo on failure? These and other questions are what study advisers, lecturers, deans and student support staff discussed at the staff symposium on student well-being at PLNT.
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Exploring educational experiments: pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law
How to innovate education? In this series, the Honours Academy highlights examples from their educational testing ground that aim to inspire. Today: the liberating effect of pass/fail and ‘unessays’ at Honours College Law.
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The University in the time of coronavirus: from working at the kitchen table to a livestream PhD defence
The outbreak of coronavirus has radically changed our life and work. We have had to work, teach and conduct research from home. How has coronavirus changed your work? What do you miss most? And what is keeping you going? We asked a few colleagues.
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What should be done differently at the University? Three lead candidates respond
From the workload to sustainability: the University Council helps decide on important topics. In the University elections – from 9 to 13 May – you can vote for who will represent you on the Council. Three questions to the three lead candidates of the staff parties: PhDoc, Universitair Belang and Leidse…
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Japanese Literature Reading List
From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.
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Demonstration, security and university ties: Executive Board answers University Council’s questions
The University Council meeting on 2 June was largely dominated by the demonstration, occupation and policing in The Hague last month.
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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‘Having children is increasingly seen as something that can be planned and managed’
What are the main trends in family life today? Three stand out: young adults living with their parents for longer, people delaying parenthood and widening inequality between families. How did these trends emerge, and what are their consequences? Leiden experts explain.
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Economic and fiscal policy of Member States: is the EU tightening or loosening its grip?
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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From War on Drugs to Criminal Governance: Mexico’s Security Dilemmas
Lecture
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NINO Postdoctoral Research Fellow 6th Annual Conference
Conference
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Painting summer landscapes
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Theater (acting) & Improvisation
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Botanical lino printing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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From Peacemaking to Dealmaking? Transitional Justice in a New Era
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Painting with techniques inspired by old masters
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- XR ERA Meetup: 'Developing Practical Virtual Field Trips for Engineering Students on Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing'
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Sympathy, Professionalism, and the Law: Medical Ethics in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Skill issues: conceptual metaphors and the etymology of Vedic r̥tá
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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AI and education: what does it mean for your course?
Course
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General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Intercultural and inclusive communication in an academic context
Communication, Personal development, Diversity
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Codecheck
Workshop
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European strategy and the quest for resilience in global supply chains of semiconductors
Lecture
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Asia Academy #20: 75 Years of Korean War: The Long Shadow
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Modelling Social Dynamics on Social Media: Networks and NLP
LUCDH Lunch Lecture
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[NEW DATE AND ROOM] Women, gig work, & Techno-Fixes in the Gulf Platform Economy
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Tonal reflexes of topic and focus in Heiban languages
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Book Publishing for Junior Scholars 2025
Conference, Workshop
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Middle-Class Conundrum: Its Growth and Stagnation in Indonesia
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar