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Young researchers met this month for the fifth Science Communication Summer School. ‘This is the first time some participants get to meet other researchers who also enjoy science communication. It’s great to see’, says Julia Cramer, one of the coordinators.

Thirteen teams of inventive staff rose to the challenge of creating brand-new AI applications to lighten their workload during the AI Cocreation Lab. At the closing ceremony in the Academy Building, participants showed their pitch films, and an expert jury announced the winning prototypes.

The Ministry of Justice and Security and Leiden Law School are planning to collaborate on a more structural basis. This is the outcome of a meeting that took place at the Academy Building in Leiden on 19 October. Those present at the meeting included the Minister for Legal Protection, Franc Weerwind,…

I am a university lecturer in English-language literature and culture, specialising in the history and development of Gothic, Horror and Science Fiction, and recently also Noir, from about 1750-present. In my research I explore social and ethical questions relating to these genres.

Krista A. Milne researches book history and medieval English and French literature at Leiden University.

Work has begun on an accommodation complex for international PhD candidates and postdocs at the Leiden Bio Science Park.

How do migrants navigate key life events? Researchers from the Living on the Other Side project looked at the experiences of migrants who have settled in Morocco. During a recent tour through Morocco, they shared their insights with respondents and fellow researchers.

Goran Bouaziz is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Benjamin Storme is an Assistant Professor of French linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His main areas of specialization are phonology and experimental linguistics.

Nainunis Aulia Izza is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Irina Ridzuan is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

Jonathan Powell is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC consolidator project FEATHERS at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Zheyu Shang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.

My work focuses on the large-scale representative and legitimising artworks and monuments created throughout Europe and the USA in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My PhD dissertation (forthcoming 2025) discusses the public sculptures that Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany created throughout…

Milan Ismangil is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Albert Logtenberg is an assistant professor at ICLON.

Andreas Krogull is a postdoc at the Centre for Linguistics.

Emmanuelle Radar is Assistant Professor in contemporary French and Francophone literature(s) and culture(s) (20th-21st c.) at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.

Deniz Tat is a Assistant professor at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Anikó Lipták is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Linguistics. She studies syntactic rules in grammar, with special attention to crosslinguistic variation and the interface between syntax and information structure, as well as between syntax and word formation. Currently, her focus is on the structure…

Vivian Kraaij is Associate Professor in Psychology at the Department of Clinical Psychology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Her work at the University consists of a combination of research, course development, teaching and management tasks.

Facility

Since the end of May, the faculty AI working group has set to work under Marije Schneider’s guidance. Drawing on recommendations from the university’s working group AI in Education (AIED), the team is eager to make headway on actual applications in our teaching, research and organisational practices…

Nusantara Capital Authority (OIKN), which is in charge of developing Indonesia’s new capital city entered a Memorandum of Understanding with Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities on 18 March on knowledge sharing and joint research.

Jürgen Zangenberg is professor for the History and Culture of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Reserve a seat, pack a nice lunch and leave a little extra time if you need to change trains. These tips come from colleagues who recently travelled by train for work. They found it a comfortable, productive and greener way to travel. ‘Just give it a try, to me it’s not very different from working from…

Organisation

Jeroen Zwemmer’s student days in Leiden ended in 2023, after completing two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, a student board year, and an exchange semester. Now, he’s a legal policy advisor at a Dutch government ministry.

The international Planetary Health Alliance network is a consortium of more than 450 organisations committed to addressing the health impacts of global climate and environmental change. Planetary Health education coordinator Laura Warmerdam explains why our university recently joined and how this will…

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.

For more than twenty years, Johan Visser has served as a family and juvenile court judge in The Hague where he is also a board member. Once a student at Leiden Law School, he reflects here on his student days and career.

When Dutch company AFAS Software announced that its employees would work four days per week for the same full-time pay, many people asked: how’s that possible? Professor Olaf van Vliet spoke to Trouw and Nu.nl about the challenges of this model.

Willem van der Muur worked at the Van Vollenhoven Institute as a PhD candidate from 2013 to 2019. After completing his doctorate he left for Indonesia to work for the World Bank. There, he is leading a project to register land rights.