7,386 search results for “Research” in the Student website
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Carmen Van den Bergh on her nomination for the LUS Teaching Prize: ‘It’s an encouragement to further develop passion for literature and education’
Assistant professor Carmen Van den Bergh has been nominated for the Leiden University Teaching Prize. ‘I combine literature education with social relevance and personal experience.’
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Sun, sea, city and campus: 850 first-years get to know The Hague
From chilling on the beach to a speech by the mayor. HOPweek is a speedy way for hundreds of ‘Leiden’ students who are going to be studying in The Hague to get to know each other. Many of them come from abroad. ‘I actually dare to cycle here.’
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Patient to plastic surgeon: ‘I want to look like my selfie.’
An image has great powers of persuasion. It is said that ‘a picture is worth more than a thousand words’. But these days, images can easily be manipulated with severe consequences. ‘Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the value we attach to images’, says Elize de Mul, whose PhD thesis deals with ‘digital…
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Management Assistant Jacqueline Wessel’s coronavirus year: ‘Keep an eye on each other’
In mid-March 2020, the global coronavirus outbreak changed everything in the Netherlands. Staying at home as much as possible and the 1.5 metre rule became the standard. One year on, we reflect on the past year with four Leiden Law School ‘insiders’. What kind of year did they have? And what are their…
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From the lecture hall: in conversation with an inmate
Students stream into the lecture hall, handing in their mobile phones at the door. Once everyone’s seated, silence descends and all eyes turn to the large screen at the front of the lecture hall. A live connection has been set up with the prison where Marco is a long-term inmate. Today, the students…
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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’
Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexandra Prégent is exploring.
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Digital coffee with Gert Renkema, Head of Financial Economic Affairs/Business controller of FGGA
Gert Renkema, Head of Financial Economic Affairs/Business Controller of FGGA, tells us how the faculty is doing
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‘The Board is not always happy with what the Council is saying, but they do listen’
We are already halfway through the academic year 2022-2023. And the Faculty Council hasn’t been sitting around doing nothing! Staff members Gert-Jan Lelieveld and Tim Mickler give us an update about the Vision and Strategy Plan and what they are doing in the additional hours available for Council wo…
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‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur'
Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre
Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Texas university and is trying to help make students more aware of the elections.
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Three Leiden students competing in FISU Summer World University Games
Three student athletes from Leiden University are representing the Netherlands at the FISU Summer World University Games, a kind of Olympic Games for students.
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan
Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known UNESCO institute in Trieste. The aim is to enhance it he knowledge of students from low- and middle-income countries. ‘By teaching here, I can truly…
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New Year’s speech 2023 & Meijers Medal
On Tuesday 10 January, the Meijers Lecture was held followed by the New Year’s reception in the restaurant of the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw. Dean Joanne van der Leun opened the reception with a New Year’s speech. The following is a short overview of the event.
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Join the discussion on the university's future direction
What should our education and research look like in 2027? How can we make the university more sustainable and achieve greater impact? The new Strategic Plan will set the direction for the coming years, and the Executive Board wants students and staff to provide as much input as possible. Would you like…
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Faculty 450th anniversary celebrations: Ahead of the times!
The year 2025 is a special milestone: we’ll celebrate our anniversary as a university community together with all the faculties. On 7 February, the Dies Natalis will mark Leiden University’s 450th birthday. Leiden Law School is one of the faculties also celebrating 450 years. So, at our faculty extra…
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eLaw taught at Mykolas Romeris University
It is said that robots replace human interaction, but not always. This spring, the robots were the reason why the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University in the Netherlands and Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Law School in Lithuania got together.
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Plants and planets
The Plants & Planets exhibition brings two worlds together in a dazzling mix of science, nature and art. It opens at Old Observatory Leiden and Hortus botanicus on 7 February.
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International Women’s Day: four women on pride, leadership and impact
On 8 March it’s International Women’s Day, and FGGA reflects on the experiences, perspectives and visibility of women. We spoke to four women from our faculty about what they are proud of, their personal journeys and social change. Their honest stories highlight just how diverse womanhood can be.
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Honours Class creative writing: ‘Stories are everywhere’
'Writing is not science, but art,' Lucas van Osenbruggen says. Last semester, he attended the Honours Class 'Creative Writing'. Together with his teacher Pauline Slot, he looks back on a course that is 'really different'.
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These students put sex in perspective: ‘Acknowledge the clusterfuck’
Discomfort obstructs scientific discussions about sex, argue Eva and Deva from the LOEF foundation. In their Bachelor Honours Class, students approach sex holistically. The results are positive: ‘I’ve become much more open about sex.’
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Teaching Machines to Learn
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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LeidenGlobal Dialogues - Egyptian Mummified Remains in Museums
Lecture
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Designing the next generation of precision medicine
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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CMP Somatic Dance (mixed level)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Sympathy, Professionalism, and the Law: Medical Ethics in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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AFITE/Una Europa conference ‘A Three-dimensional Initiative on Academic Freedom’
Conference
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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa
Lecture
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Informal workshop Global rhetoric
Lecture, Workshop
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Students and City Doers: Sustainable Connection
Collaboration
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Ummahāt al-Khulafā’: Mothers of the Marwanid and Abbasid Caliphate
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Transformational leadership: Capacity Building for Equitable and Sustainable Change
Study support
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Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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LUCIR book lecture: Do We Need a Hegemon to Maintain International Order?
Lecture
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Lorentz Lecture: Working towards evidence-based care for aging transgender and non-binary people
Lecture
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Seated at the Altar: New Year in Rural North China
Film screening
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Summer School Science Communication
Course
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Plastic's Legacy: From Single-Use to Sustainable Solutions
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Book presentation: 'Stop the Machines: The Rise of Anti-Technology Extremism'
Book presentation
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Financing the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South India during the 19th century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Tuesday Talk - Microscopy reinvented: peeking into living worlds
Lecture, Tuesday Talk
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Special Guest Lecture: Maps, manuscripts, and the colonial division of the Malay world
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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BAMBOO Night - All Things Sustainability
Lecture, Pint of Science
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Digital Roundtable Series: Collaborating with or for Artificial Intelligence? Session 1
Lecture
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Digital Roundtable Series: Collaborating with or for Artificial Intelligence? Session 2
Lecture
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Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
Conference
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Working in culture and arts
Career and apply for jobs
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Workshop Academic Writing for New Students (Writing Lab Humanities)
Study support, Study support