PhD, Staff

How do you teach? Every teacher has their own style, and often an arsenal of tricks, lessons learned and insights. In every Education Newsletter, a teacher shares a personal tip. Here's an overview.

The Faculty of Science believes it is important that you are stimulated, inspired and supported in your development as a teacher. In this section, you can find out more about the support and opportunities to work on your teaching skills.

Leiden University has high-quality research facilities and laboratories for education and research.

This website provides an overview of the organisational structure of Leiden University. Here you can find contact details of secretariats, staff lists by department, co-participation bodies, and regulations.

Students with disabilities are often entitled to additional facilities during exams, such as extra time or a laptop. The exam facilities expert group is looking into the processes surrounding exam facilities and how these can be improved.

The Leiden University Fund (LUF) has been active since 1890 as an independent support foundation for Leiden University. It supports education and research through grants, endowed chairs, scholarships, and awards. In addition, LUF organises alumni events to strengthen the connection with former stude…

To make education more inclusive for students with disabilities, it is essential that there is sufficient expertise available in this area within the university. The expertise building group aims to increase knowledge about studying with disabilities among lecturers, student supervisors and other university…

Are you a teacher? And do you want to check whether papers, essays or theses have been plagiarised from others? If so, you can use Turnitin. Turnitin compares the content of papers and theses with texts submitted previously and with public Internet sources.

The International Relations Department offers advise and support on internationalisation in education in a wide variety of areas.

Do you have an idea for an educational innovation? Annually, you can apply for a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant. The call for proposals for 2026-2027 has now started.

Didactics, Communication, Diversity

Strong leadership is essential for building an open and learning organisation.

DataKompas is our new tool for strategic and policy related information. It includes data from our educational and research activities, staff members, management, partnerships and the implementation of our strategic plan. These singular and numerical facts offer us a complete overview and a factual…

Read where to go with your questions.

Leiden University supports you with a modern and secure digital working environment. Here you will find all information about the available facilities and systems, as well as answers to questions such as: How do I install software? How do I secure my account? And which tools are available for my research…

In Maileon, you have the role of editor, but there are other types of users with different permissions.

If you have a question about the University website, or if you wish to post an announcement or report content-related changes, please contact the web editors of your faculty or unit.

Education, Research

Organisation, Human resources

For each university unit, the ICT Shared Service Centre (ISSC) has an appointed ICT contact person responsible for applying for ICT facilities for research, teaching and operational management.

A fiction film portrays a narrative with well thought out characters as realistically as possible with the use of actors, lighting and decor. The strength of a fiction film is being able to relay a deeper meaning in an entertaining and artistic way.

The protection of data is the responsibility of all of us. The university observes a privacy policy for the purpose of protecting personal data as effectively as possible. An overview of the procedures can be found below.

Find out who to turn to as a staff member for advice about press enquiries and science communication. Member of the press? Then see the link at the bottom of this page.

Onderwijs-en Examenregeling (OER)

If students are to develop their talents, they will need an inclusive learning environment where they feel at home and can share their experiences and opinions. This teaching guide helps teaching staff in their ambitions to foster students’ development at our university, regardless of their backgrou…

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) can be an aspect of teaching and learning, an outcome to achieve and/or an atmosphere to create. On this page you can find out more information in terms of support and best practices.

Didactics

The Barrier-Free Studying project embodies Leiden University’s statement of intent on inclusive education, which was issued in 2018.

Do you have questions about data management? Please contact the data stewards:

The theme Sustainability is one of the five continuous developmental themes in the strategical plan Innovating and connecting – 2022 - 2027 of Leiden University. Making sustainability one of the hot topics.

Leiden University considers it important to help employees whose contract is coming to an end find a new job. Depending on the duration of your employment and your personal needs, we offer different kinds of support, from career advice to workshops on successful job interviews.

Welcome to the teacher platform of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FSW). Here you will find information on everything related to teaching at FSW: from the practical issues you need to take care of to innovating your course.

The Annual Report of Leiden University reports on its teaching, research, innovation, knowledge valorisation, infrastructure, staff and finances. It is the cornerstone of the planning and control process, and is a detailed financial statement on the policy that has been enacted.

Zoom is an online tool that facilitates online teaching, one-to-one chat sessions that can expand into group discussions, training sessions and webinars for internal and external audiences.

This section lists awards, scholarships and grants at FSW for which you can nominate/apply for yourself or another person.

Ethics committees advise researchers on ethical issues relating to their research. For example, whether the research meets the criteria for ethically responsible conduct. There are a number of ethics committees within Leiden University.

You can surf the internet wirelessly on the eduroam wifi network. All data on the eduroam network is sent encrypted. Through eduroam, you have automatic wifi access at other universities and universities of applied sciences, in the Netherlands, Europe and further afield.