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1,294 search results for “civil society” in the Staff website

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  Roeland Spruyt Researcher/lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  r.l.j.spruyt@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.fairclough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Adriaan Rademaker University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.m.rademaker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272677

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  Meehea Park Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.park@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275403

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  Martin Berger Assistant professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.e.berger@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ineke Sluiter Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.sluiter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273311

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Matthew Payne Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.f.payne@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272749

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  Hugo Koning University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.h.koning@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272667

• Matthias Haentjens appointed as Professor of Civil Law News - 4 October 2022

  Starting 1 January 2023, Matthias Haentjens has been appointed as Professor of Civil Law at Leiden University. His expertise lies in the field of property law, insolvency law, and private international law.

• Getting to grips with invisible interests News - 9 September 2022

  With the childcare benefits scandal in the Netherlands, certain interests in society were hidden for long to politics and governance. With the farmers’ protests, on the other hand, the major economic and political interests at stake were hidden for long to society. In her inaugural lecture on 16 September,…

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  Bianca de Kroon Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  b.b.a.de.kroon@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Maria Amjad Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.amjad@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Frans Sonneveldt Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  f.sonneveldt@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marleen Waaijer-Linders PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  m.u.m.a.waaijer@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Floor Veldhuis PhD candidate / PhD fellow

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  a.f.veldhuis@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275310

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  Eline Verhage External PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.n.verhage@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ellen van Beukering-Rosmuller Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  e.j.m.van.beukering@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277400

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  Inge van der Weijden Senior researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  i.c.m.van.der.weijden@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276073

• Interviews with over 100 civil servants under Trump reveal worrying picture News - 23 January 2025

  It was challenging to get civil servants from the first Trump administration to speak about their work experiences, but sociologist Jaime Lee Kucinskas succeeded. The picture that emerged from her findings, she says, is far from positive. 'The more I spoke with them, the more emotions I saw. They were…

• Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy News - 29 February 2024

  Western civil servants openly struggle with their government’s policies on the war in Gaza. During a meeting at Campus The Hague, three former civil servants told their stories.

• Dissertation: The strategic role of ceasefires in civil wars News - 10 May 2021

  The impact of a ceasefire shifts over the course of a conflict, as conflict party leaders learn more about each other’s military and political aspirations and adapt their use of ceasefires accordingly. That’s the key message of the dissertation of Valerie Sticher, PhD-candidate at the Faculty of Governance…

• ‘The battle for sustainability won’t be won in the civil courts’ News - 18 March 2024

  Fossil Free against KLM on greenwashing, municipalities against Chemours on PFAS discharge, climate cases against Shell and ING Bank… There are many examples of recent civil lawsuits on sustainability. But does climate litigation in the civil courts actually have an effect?

• Keuzegids Masters 2025: History and Classics and Ancient Civilizations score well above average News - 31 March 2025

  Two Humanities research masters and one master’s programme score well above average in the Keuzegids Masters: the research master History, the master and research master Classics and Ancient Civilizations.

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  Ludo Waltman Scientific Director / Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  waltmanlr@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275806

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  Silvia D'Amato Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  s.damato@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506

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  Jelle Nijland Lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.nijland@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 'Civil servants seem to have relatively more power than the minister' News - 15 May 2023

  Marlinde Kapteijn studied Public Administration at Leiden University and decided to apply for an internship after her bachelor. While she enjoyed the internship and was able to learn a lot, she also had to get used to it: 'I had not expected the ministry to be so hierarchical.'

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  Caelesta Braun Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  c.h.j.m.braun@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009977

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  Wilco van Dijk Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  dijkwvan@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 0 6 43446432

• Civility, not opinions, was the real surprise in student debate News - 24 October 2025

  The student debate in Leiden’s Stadsgehoorzaal promised to be ‘the key to your vote’. That may sound hyperbolic, but what this well-attended debate did achieve was increased trust in politics. ‘They even let each other finish their sentences’, the flabbergasted students concluded at the end.

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  Casper de Jonge Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272678

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  Tazuko van Berkel Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.a.van.berkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272674

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  Christoph Pieper University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272673

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  Bert van den Berg University Lecturer Ancient Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272680

• “Working together to foster a healthy, happy society” News - 17 April 2025

  Since 2023, Andrea Evers has been the lead for “Health and well-being in a healthy society”, a key theme at FSW and one of the profile areas of the University as a whole. Three new FSW health research themes will shortly be announced at the Faculty’s Health Research Event, where the FSW’s researchers…

• Experiment in Leiden labs: a peek inside a civil servant's head News - 4 June 2024

  Specially for an experiment conducted by Leiden University, public administration experts and water authority officials came together in a laboratory.

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274167

• ‘Scandals mean society is actually doing well’ News - 21 June 2024

  Whereas the Netherlands Court of Audit used to conduct an investigation once a year, the average civil service organisation now has a few per year to contend with. Is so much going wrong nowadays? Not at all, says Professor by Special Appointment Sjoerd Keulen. ‘It’s one of the methods that makes democracy…

• Grant awarded to scale up research into resilience and self-management during waiting times in Youth GGZ News - 28 April 2026

  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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  Anne-Laura van Harmelen Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.van.harmelen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276186

• conversation with Ben Smulders: from Leiden Law School student to top civil servant at European Commission News - 9 February 2024

  Alumnus Ben Smulders has worked for the European Commission for the past 33 years. ‘The discipline and depth that I experienced during my student days has helped me through various stages of my professional career.’

• Leiden Law Cast #1: Child benefits scandal & compassion with Professor A.G. Castermans News - 17 December 2021

  Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.

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  Antje Wessels Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.b.wessels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272681

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  Hoko Horii Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  h.horii@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277260

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  Rachel Plak Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.d.plak@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  To find funding, you first need to define your goal. Do you need to fund your own salary? Go abroad? Start up a collaboration? Buy equipment or do field work? Develop a company based on an invention that came out of the research? Next, find a match between your goal and the many funding opportunitie…

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  Cornelis van Tilburg Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.r.van.tilburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Thomas Kluitenburg PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.p.m.kluitenburg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278530

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  Henric Jansen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.r.j.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271741