Het Empower your PhD-project wil bereiken dat Leidse promovendi meer zelfregie krijgen over hun persoonlijke en loopbaanontwikkeling.

As a PhD candidate, you are expected to follow certain courses and training programmes in the context of your training as a researcher. The courses and training programmes will help you conduct your research, write your dissertation, develop your career, and gain self-insight.

PhD Candidates are encouraged to start thinking about job prospects well before the defence of their thesis. This page contains information about how to prepare yourself.

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In the series 'PhD in the Picture', our PhD students tell us all about their research: what are their findings? How did they do it, and how does their research touch upon hot topics in our society today?

Want to increase your adaptability and self-management over your career and personal development? You can do that with career competences. 'Empower your PhD' is a university-wide project in which PhD candidates work on their career competences using a self-evaluation tool, personal coaching or peer…

The Service Centre International Staff provides advice and different services to all international employees and guest researchers pursuing their academic careers in Leiden.

PhD Research Projects at LUCDH and Affiliated Faculties

On this page you can follow PhD defences by Leiden University researchers via videostream.

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This is a yearly event where we move in one week from the physics of light through the composition of the microscope, fluorescence microscopy and end up with some image analysis All the lectures are backed by practicals to really put your obtained knowledge into practice

If you wish to come to the Netherlands, there are certain immigration procedures you need to follow. Leiden University can apply for a visa and residence permit on your behalf.

Every PhD candidate has access to MS Teams ‘LACDR PhD group’. This site is specially for PhD candidates of LACDR. We strive to collect here all relevant PhD information and to stimulate the collaboration and communication in the LACDR PhD community.

The Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CADS) of Leiden University hosts almost 50 PhD candidates working on a wide variety of topics.

In some cases, PhD candidates are permitted to follow a PhD track that involves conducting research and receiving supervision at two institutions: Leiden University and another university. There are two arrangements of joint supervision.

Leiden University offers a wide range of PhD programmes in the 7 Graduate Schools of it's faculties.

What are the career prospects after the PhD?

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Social and Behavioural Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

PhD Programme of the Institute for History

The IBL PhD and Postdoc Association, also known as IPPA, seeks to create a platform for PhDs and Postdocs at the Institute of Biology Leiden to interact with one another. IPPA arranges social gatherings approximately four times each year, which include food and drinks, with the goal of integrating PhDs…

Being a supervisor is a demanding job. With these golden rules in mind, you'll do just fine. You can keep reading below, or you can download the PDF in which you find a visual representation on the rules.

Up to and including 2024 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will be working with the ‘PhDs in the Humanities’ funding instrument.

The Data Science Research Programme at Leiden University combines data science with PhD projects in a wide range of disciplines. The programme has been running for over two years, and is producing the first astonishing results. A number of PhD candidates talk about their experiences and research bel…

PhD Kick-off Event

NESA offers a one-year teaching and training programme especially for upcoming and all first year PhD candidates, consisting of 5 masterclasses on current and trending theoretical debates in our discipline, an extensive methodology training and occasionally a cohort meeting off campus.

The International Institute of Air and Space Law (IIASL) offers PhD candidates the possibility to enroll in the IIASL PhD Track. It is designed for 'external' PhD candidates (buitenpromovendi), who seek to pursue a PhD in Air Law or Space Law while honouring their professional commitments in paralle…

Archaeology

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

Alumni event

Here we explain how to attend the workshop "How to Get a PhD Position" on May 7 2021.

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

BSc degrees: ‘Political Science’, ‘International Relations and Organisations’. MSc degree: Political Science, with specialisations ‘International Organisation’; ‘Dutch Politics; ‘Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Development’; ‘International Politics’; ‘Political Legitimacy and Justice’; ‘Democracy…

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Science, Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML)

December marks the 15th anniversary of the Dual PhD Centre (DPC). Director Johannes Tromp and associate professor Mark Dechesne look back and ahead. Dechesne: ‘The DPC forms a 'community of knowledge' in which science and society are connected.’

If all goes according to plan, Vasileios Karakasis will successfully defend his dissertation on Thursday 15 October. This will not only be a milestone for Vasileios, but also for the Dual PhD Centre (DPC).

Do you already know what comes next after your PhD? Are you wondering how to accomplish the transition from academia to the labour market? Join our PhD Career Event!

PhD student of the division Pharmacology, Jantine Brussee has won the second prize of the Figon-Pfizer PhD student Competition, at the Dutch Medicine Days in Ede.

LUCL is pleased to announce that Bobby Ruijgrok has been awarded a PhD-position within the NWO PhDs in the Humanities Programme. His project is entitled 'Tapping into semantic recovery: an event-related potential study on the processing of gapping'. LUCL congratulates Bobby on this beautiful result.

The last two months of 2016 were a very productive time for the ACPA. We had no less than 6 promotions!

‘Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures’ is a European Commission-funded MSCA Doctoral Network that will support 13 PhD researchers undertaking projects on late medieval and early modern books. These PhD researchers will be spread across the following institutions: University of Galway (3 positions),…

The Univeristy of Cologne offers 3 PhD Positions within the project 'Dynamiken der Konventionalität'. Deadline: 30 November 2022.

The Radboud University offers a 4-year PhD position on anchoring religious change in Late Antiquity: Writing the Rules of Life. Anchoring Church Law between Constantine the Great and Charlemagne. Deadline for applications: 24 April 2023.

The Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame accepts up to two, funded (tuition scholarship + full stipend) PhD students per year in Liturgical Studies. The program integrates three sub-disciplines: Liturgical History; Liturgical Theology; Ritual Studies. Deadline: 2 January 2023.