Bachelor, Master

Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

All the sources (both textual and visual) you use for your educational video or online course need to meet the requirements of Dutch copyright law. Below, you’ll find some guidelines for how to include references and attributions for visual resources in your video work, and where to find usable imagery…

The university is committed to providing an accessible learning and working environment for students and staff. They should be able to feel at home at our faculty. That is why there is now an all-gender toilet in every humanities building to contribute to that feeling of recognition and safety.

Research

On Monday 13 July, the gift of the artwork Homs by Syrian artist Rabi Koria was officially accepted at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. The tableau can be viewed in the KOG restaurant.

Op dinsdag 4 februari 2020 kreeg universitair docent kinderrechten Stephanie Rap de KNAW Early Career Award 2019 uitgereikt. Ze kreeg de prijs voor haar onderzoek naar de betekenis van internationale kinderrechten.

Stay tuned for updates on relevant media appearances of Anne-Laura van Harmelen.

From April 2022, Professor Paul Nieuwbeerta will be working one day a week as affiliated professor for Statistics Netherlands (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS)). He is Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Leiden University.

A research team from Leiden University, in cooperation with Bureau Boekhoorn Sociaal-Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek en Advies (BBSO), is to evaluate Dutch counterterrorism legislation.

Arco Timmermans, Bijzonder Hoogleraar Public Affairs, sprak deze week in het BNR Lobbypanel over verschillende lobbys, de lobby voor de kortere zomervakantie met een langere kerstvakantie en de lobby voor de stop van het steunen van het openbare vervoer.

Course

Starting 1 July 2020, Pieter Tops will hold the special chair Organised and Subversive Crime Studies. The chair will be hosted by the Institute Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) at Leiden University's Faculty Governance and Global Affairs. Pieter Tops is a lector at the Police Academy. He conducts…

Education

Organisation, Human resources

Hereby we want to convey our congratulations to prof. Liesbeth de Lange who is appointed as new Honorary Doctor at Uppsala University. Honorary doctor, or doctor honoris causa, is a title awarded to those who have made an outstanding scientific contribution or otherwise promoted research at the univ…

Developmental Psychologist Anna van Duijvenvoorde talks about her research on the development of brain and behaviour in adolescents. An important part of this research is social learning which is crucial in puberty. Several Media sources devoted attention to her research. She recently received the Heineken…

Professors argue for independent council for government policy

Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay. Raymond Corbey brings these sources to bear on circa 300 ritual objects and their itineraries in the book KORWAR - Northwest New Guinea ritual art according…

In the Dutch EenVandaag-article 'Waarom we nog altijd beter luisteren naar witte mannen en hoe we dit kunnen veranderen' (Why we continue to listen more carefully to white men and how we can change this) cultural anthropologist Jasmijn Rana (Leiden University) and Jens van Tricht (author and founder…

Rebecca Schaefer received the new science communication grant for the SNAAR Festival in December 2020. With the festival, Schaefer wants to make music and science accessible to a wide audience. How exactly? That's what she tells in this issue of Humans of Psychology.

Laura van der Aar talks about the role of self-image in making decisions for future education. In her research, Laura investigated the importance of paying attention to the development of self-image, and how this can better support teenagers in their study choice.

Annelinde Vandenbroucke received the new science communication grant for NeurolabNL Young in December 2020. This grant will help her in her mission: to make science attractive for and by youth. Vandenbroucke tells Humans of Psychology why youth is important to science and vice versa,

Finance, Human resources

Every year, the Faculty awards two Meijers PhD positions to talented young scholars. Candidates both from within and outside of the Faculty can apply.

On Thursday 10 January a number of prizes were presented to researchers and students.

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Conference, Education Festival

The physical boundary between private life and work has disappeared. As a result, each of us has to guard that boundary individually, and that is pretty tricky, says our dean.Paul Wouters in his column.

Three projects affiliated with the university will receive grants from the Leids Mediafonds (Leiden Media Fund ed.). The money is to be spend on creating a journalistic production in collaboration with a local media partner.

A group of Chinese law students currently study this semester at the Leiden Law Faculty with a special focus on public international law. These top talents have been selected by the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs to be China’s future diplomats, if they successfully finish their semester in Leiden…

Education, Research

During the LACDR Fall Symposium the Suzanne Hovinga Award for ‘best master thesis’ was awarded to Fenne Verheijen for her master thesis entitled ‘Characterization of the aged macrophage in experimental atherosclerosis’. Fenne investigated the impact of age on macrophages in atherosclerosis by combining…

The Leiden University Fund (LUF) invites researchers of all faculties to submit applications for the Leiden Empowerment Fund (LEF).

Human resources

Through the use of artificial intelligence, the executive is gaining in efficiency. At the same time, however, the judiciary is trailing behind in the process of digitalisation. Is this a problem, and what can we do about it?

Various consortia in which Leiden University is represented are beginning interdisciplinary research, which will bring scientific and societal breakthroughs within reach. Knowledge institutions, government and private parties are working closely together on the projects.

‘The range of possibilities for interactive and online teaching at the university has grown rapidly during the coronavirus crisis,’ says Michelle Olmstead, Director of the Centre for Innovation – and the Centre has seen some pretty rapid growth of its own.

See your Faculty’s tab for more information on what we expect of you as a lecturer, before, during and after tests and examinations, and when supervising students in writing their thesis.

Science, Leiden Institute of Chemistry (LIC)

Archaeology, FdA Faculty Board and office

Science, Leiden Observatory

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master

PhD

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.