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Who doesn’t want peace? Yet we don’t always appreciate how fragile it really is. This is why Leiden University was a co-organiser of the Just Peace Festival from 21 to 25 September 2016.

On Thursday 7 May, Jolanda van der Vliet obtained her PhD based on her dissertation 'The International Protection of Environmental Refugees. A human rights-based, security and State responsibility approach.' The defence was held online. Jolanda worked on her dissertation under the supervision of the…

Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers is one of the coordinators of the national Health and Wellbeing programme and of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) programme that goes by the same name. The aim is to use technology to promote our health. LDE has already been working on this topic for some ti…

The Dual PhD centre has been granted an ICTO-grant for the development of a digital training programme for dual PhD’s.

Here you find the admission requirements to apply for the bachelor’s programme in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence.

What do I do if Mum or Dad gets the virus? Could the slide at the playground have coronavirus on it? Can children die of the virus too? On 15 April, the National Science Agenda organised an hour-long session on Facebook to give children the chance to ask their questions about coronavirus. Leiden psychologist…

Key research articles, reviews and books of the Chromatin group.

On 29 January 2019, Robbert J. van Eijk will defend his Ph.D thesis, in which he investigates the online advertisements that seem to follow you.

Last Friday, the LUCL runners have run the Leiden Singelloop – this time joining forces with the rest of the Humanities team celebrating the 444th birthday of our University. Thanks to all colleagues who participated and supported us. We’ll run again next year, and everyone’s invited to join!

A global biological study has provided the most direct evidence to date that humans, and specifically cities, are the drivers of evolutionary change on Earth. Leiden University, Naturalis and the Municipality of Leiden worked on and helped fund the study.

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Scientists, and not only those in the social sciences and humanities, think that valorisation is mainly about economic profit. This is what Stefan de Jong writes in his PhD dissertation. His advice: spread knowledge about valorisation; that way it’s facts that determine the valorisation debate, and…

The Executive Board of Leiden University reappointed Dr. Johannes Magliano-Tromp from 1 July 2017 as member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs with the portfolio Education.

Check this page regularly for more information about incorporating sustainability within the education of Leiden University.

Check this page regularly for more information about incorporating sustainability within the education of Leiden University.

The Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law offers the Dutch master Financial Law and the Advanced Master International Financial Law Furthermore, they provide a course within the bachelor International Business Law and offer a wide variety of postgraduate education.

Students following this programme can choose one specialisation. This can be either with a focus on psychology in everyday life or on its application in mental health care. Each specialisation consists of mandatory courses, electives a master’s thesis and an internship.

Don’t wait until you’ve been hacked: how we should prepare for cybercriminals

In this project Principles and Best Practices for Insolvency Office Holders (IOHs) for cross-border insolvency cases are developed.

The interactive media and simulations studio designed and built by our in-house Data & Media team.

Once you have completed the specialisation Educational Science, you will be an expert in the field of education and child development in the school context. You will be up to date on the newest scientific insights into learning, language and arithmetic skills, brain development and application to teaching.…

Leiden is a lively, compact student city, with a strong academic tradition and a close-knit student community. It’s also conveniently close to cities like Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam, all within a 30-minute train journey.

Mohamed Tleis was born in Lebanon and studied there up to and including university. It was not an easy path because Tleis has to cope with a number of limitations: he has problems with both hearing and vision.

The Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities uses multidisciplinary big data research to help find solutions for urban problems. ‘BOLD’ stands for ‘Big, Open and Linked Data’. Data science is one of the Centre’s main disciplines.

In 2021, Assistant Professor Tax Law Rens Pieterse published a biography about former professor in tax law H.J. Hofstra. Dutch magazine ‘Het Register’ did an extensive spread on Pieterse, his writing and other activities.

Nineteen new Leiden University MOOCs have started this January. Anyone can take part in these online courses varying from combatting terrorism to kidney transplantation.

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Key publications of the Cardiovascular Pharmacology group

Upon receiving their diploma from LUC, our students spread their wings to pursue prestigious master’s degrees, PhD studies or to start their professional careers. Due to the many academic fields that are taught at LUC, the options for their future are vast and diverse. It is unsurprising that LUC’s…

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your BA in Linguistics programme? With options like the Honours College, The Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), you can broaden your academic programme or add extra depth, intensity and ECTS – even a dual degree –…

Different PhD tracks are available for different types of PhD candidates.

Harriet Hunter defended her thesis on 26 September 2018.

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your bachelor’s programme at Leiden University? With options such as the Honours College, the Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), you can add extra depth, challenge and ECTS (study credits) to your studies — including…

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden bachelor’s programme? With options like the Honours College, the Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can add extra depth, intensity and study credits (ECTS), including the possibility of a dual degree,…

The Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs is one of a total of seven faculties of Leiden University, located in The Hague.

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme? With options like Honours College, The Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can add extra depth, intensity and ECTS – even a dual degree – to your study.

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme? With options like Honours College, The Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can add extra depth, intensity and ECTS – even a dual degree – to your study.

Are you ready to take on an extra challenge during your Leiden Bachelor programme? With options like the Honours College, The Humanities Lab and the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) you can broaden your academic programme or add extra depth, intensity and ECTS – even a dual degree – to…

To get important topics such as climate and human rights higher on the agenda of listed companies, stakeholders other than shareholders and employees should officially be given more say. This is what Professor of Business Law Harold Koster said in his inaugural lecture on 18 March. He proposes introducing…

Having a bachelor, master and Ph.D in chemistry, Elena Sánchez López shifted to a more biological research for her postdoc. All of her studies she did at the University of Alcala, in Spain. Way back in medieval times, this city was the place of birth of Miguel de Cervantes, author of the world famous…

On Tuesday 14 February 2017 defended Kees van Gageldonk his doctoral thesis ‘Op zoek naar onderzoek. De totstandkoming van de onderzoekfunctie in het hoger beroepsonderwijs' at the Academy Building of Leiden University. Supervisor of the research is Prof.dr. W. Otterspeer with co-supervisor Dr. P.J.…

This week the European Court of Justice ruled that companies in the European Union as of now have to register the amount of hours their employees work. Member States will be responsible for ensuring employers establish such registration systems.

In De Kookshow, Universiteit Van Nederland explores the scientific world behind food. Ever wondered which senses influence how tasty you find something? And why do you always have room for pudding after a meal? Leiden historian Kim Beerden is among the scholars providing answers.

The ‘University of the Netherlands’ is a series of lectures in which academics address topics based on their expertise. In the latest instalment, cultural historian Simon Willmetts discusses how intelligence services operate and what has changed since 9/11.