Would you like to develop your discussion skills? We provide a variety of training resources for staff members and managers. The topics covered include making a connection, listening, giving feedback and reflection.

GROW: Conversations on Performance, Development and Well-being (Gesprekken over Resultaat, Ontwikkeling en Welzijn). GROW offers the opportunity to speak openly with your manager, several times a year, about your work, development and well-being. This involves both looking back and looking ahead.

The Personal Professional Skills Lab (PPSL) is an elective programme for all FSW bachelor students that enter in 2024 and on. The aim of the PPSL is to encourage students to develop personal and professional skills during the bachelor, that will give them greater resilience and direction: both in their…

Here you can find questions and answers about the employee experience survey.

If you want to travel for work to an area with a security risk country or area with the color code orange and/or red, you need prior permission from the university.

Use this step-by-step guide when you want to (re)design your course, lecture or assignment. SEEDS is here to help you every step of the way.

The Individual Choices Model offers a number of options for buying or saving additional leave days, or exchanging leave days for extra income.

As you are a new Leiden University staff member, a number of things must happen before we can draw up your contract and activate your ULCN account. This is also the case if you are affiliated with the university as external staff, for example if you were hired as a freelancer.

Ans is Leiden University's digital testing platform. It allows you to make digital exams using a variety of questions for summative and formative assessment.

Because she lives the values she stands for in her work, open and trustworthy leadership are central to Jannemieke Ouwerkerk’s approach. ‘It’s important in academia to want good things for each other.’

Do you have to give a presentation for the first time, or do you need support creating a good presentation? We have listed a few tips below that will help you get your story across.

Locking your screen before leaving your desk: it’s so easy to do but we often forget. This quick action protects both you and the university. Do you always lock your screen when you leave to get a coffee, walk to the printer or chat with a colleague in the corridor?

Personal development, Transferable skills

Each department of our faculty has a different way of onboarding new lecturers depending on your experience and type of teaching responsibilities.

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…

training programme postdocs

From the 2026-2027 academic year each programme will record the teaching preparation process in TimeEdit Curriculum (TEC). TEC is the curriculum source system in which data is recorded completely and reliably. From TEC, data can be exchanged with other systems. TEC replaces local Word and Excel files…

Didactics

Anyone who comes into contact with Leiden University should be able to trust that we will act with integrity. The Code of Conduct on Integrity describes how we can work together to ensure that this is the case, whether in relation to research, interactions with students, purchasing or the use of University…

Diversity

If you incur professional expenses, such as professional association fees, you can offset these expenses against your salary, holiday allowance and year-end bonus via the Individual Choices Model.

If you wish to start a project site for a temporary Leiden University project, or if you need a new domain name, please apply to the Functional Web Management department.

The internal auditor appraises the effectiveness and reliability of the internal organisation of Leiden University. We work in close collaboration with an external auditor during the financial audit of project reports and the financial statement. The various audits provide a clear picture of what is…

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master

The JUL board 2025/2026 consists of five colleagues:

If you come to work by car, you can apply for a parking subscription for one of Leiden University’s parking areas. The subscription is simply added to your LU Card. You can then use your LU Card to access the parking area.

Research, Transferable skills

Master

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master

Management, Leadership

Many national and international research funders can provide financing for your research project.

If you travel abroad for your work, you can claim expenses for lodging, meals, minor costs and transport. The amount reimbursed depends on the country you travel to. You must have approval to travel from your manager.

Follow these steps to start a new mailing or newsletter.

For the academic year 2025-2026, nine (teams of) teachers will receive a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. Here you can read about their projects.

Leadership, Personal development, Management

If you work at Leiden University, you automatically accrue pension with the Algemeen Burgerlijk Pensioenfonds (ABP). You can supplement your pension with ABP. In addition to a retirement pension, ABP also offers surviving dependents insurance and a work disability pension. From 1 January 2027, the…

Master, PhD

Would you like to explore the next step in your career, or find out what your future options are? Do you have specific qualities that you’d like to develop further in your work? Or are you wondering whether you’re still in the right place or might like something different, but don’t know what or where…

Visitors to a website want to see immediately if the content is worth reading. The text should therefore be appealing and ‘scannable’.

Do you want access to your mailbox via your webmail? Do you want to share a single e-mail address with a number of colleagues? Read about the different options for email.

Our vision on lifelong development

On this page, you will find more information about what you do as a mentoring coordinator and where you can find more information to help you perform your role as well as possible.

Didactics

Scientific integrity is an important element in the PhD trajectory, and is addressed in several different settings.