1,281 search results for “economics” in the Staff website
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Dutch MP Robert van Asten: ‘Our choices must also benefit future generations’
Alumnus Robert van Asten has been an MP for D66 since 2025. He studied Tax Law at Leiden University from 1997 to 2005. After a career in that field, he switched to local politics and later national politics.
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Students build software for real customers
Students gain practical experience while clients receive a solution to their software needs: the student software company LUdev hits two birds with one stone. ‘Through LUdev, students learn what else is involved in software development besides programming.’ Interested? You can now submit new projects…
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Sandra Palmen is State Secretary and alumna: ‘My main goal is to get the childcare benefit redress operation back on track’
Sandra Palmen studied tax law at Leiden University and built a career within central government, currently as State Secretary. She was one of the first to raise the alarm about the child benefits affair and is now righting the wrongs.
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Four years of war in Ukraine: What Europe can learn from the battlefield
Four years of war in Ukraine have transformed the nature of warfare, with drones, digital defence systems and improvised solutions shaping the battlefield. At a recent symposium, Dutch and Ukrainian experts discussed frontline conditions. What lessons do they see for Europe?
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Looking for candidates for the Spinoza and Stevin Prize
Research
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How sustainable is the new Dutch ‘Schijf van Vijf’ Five questions for environmental scientist Joran Lammers
The ‘Schijf van Vijf’ is the Dutch official dietary guideline, similar to a food pyramid, that shows what a healthy daily diet looks like. The updated version places more emphasis on plant-based eating. But how big is the impact of that shift really? We asked environmental scientist Joran Lammers.
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…
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Hanneke Hulst looks back on 100 days as scientific director
Our institute is in full swing: the annual staffing review, Recognition & Rewards, Open Science and the introduction of GROW. Besides these positive developments, Hanneke Hulst also sees concerns, for example about the new outline agreement. 'I’m hopeful that together we will find smart ways to deal…
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Leiden University will get a Knowledge Centre for Kingdom Relations in The Hague
Starting in September 2026, Leiden University in The Hague will begin establishing a new Knowledge Centre for Kingdom Relations. In addition to bringing together researchers and developing education on Kingdom relations, the goal is to contribute to the public debate and foster greater mutual understanding…
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Researcher in the classroom: the importance of inclusive education
The number of Waldorf schools in the Netherlands is growing rapidly. Over the past ten years, student enrolment has increased by more than 40 percent. Thijs Jan van Schie not only teaches at such a school, he has also conducted research on this type of education — not in the Netherlands, but in the…
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Three projects selected for the Prof. Andrea Evers Fund for Health, Behaviour and Society
An independent review committee has unanimously selected three projects to receive a grant from the Prof. Andrea Evers Fund for Health, Behaviour and Society. The fund, which was launched earlier this year, supports innovative inter- and transdisciplinary research in health and well-being.
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Medieval insights for modern urban planning
Historical geographer Marcel IJsselstijn developed a new approach that improves our understanding of how medieval cities were planned. He hopes it will help archaeologists, urban planners and designers address contemporary challenges.
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Underground China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Trees and Securitization: The Politics of Afforestation in Israel's Negev/Al Naqab | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform: a collection of essays on human mobility and social protection
PhD defence
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Leader Similarity and International Sanctions
Lecture
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Clubs in climate finance? Emerging mix-donor climate organizations
Lunch Seminar
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Repression, Removing Fear, and the Struggle to End Genocide
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Youth Precarity in South Korea
Lecture
- European Union Seminar Series
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Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss in Company Law and International Investment Law
PhD defence
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FGGA in 2025: This was the year of our faculty
2025 was a year full of impact and milestones for FGGA: From a record number of graduates and new programmes to international collaborations, prestigious awards and research that pushes boundaries and provides insight into current challenges.
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Finding our way out of the hyper-nervous society? ‘Time to pause and reflect on our basic human needs’
Hit the brakes! That’s the advice of the Council for Public Health and Society in a recent report. Eight psychologists share their insights on how to slow down and reconnect.
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Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in peace and security
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Cape Town: The Making of a Colonial City
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Intentional Hope, Social Change and Leadership
Lecture
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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Beyond the Great-Power Clash: ASEAN’s Quiet Power in the Indo-Pacific
Lecture and book presentation
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The End of Democracy? Latin American Perspectives on a Global Crisis
Debate, Panel discussion
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A Donroe Doctrine? Latin America Confronts a New Global Reality
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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Dutch elections: what are they all about?
Panel
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Conversation on Islam in Today’s Indonesian Politics
Roundtable
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
- Centre for the History of European Integration Seminar Series
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Decolonizing Archaeological Epistemologies
Conference
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Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
Lecture
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Consumer heterogeneity in internal reference price formation
PhD defence
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Beyond Field School: Fighting Authoritarianism by Training Tomorrow's Archaeologists
Lecture
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Lifelong Learning with Disability. Towards a Framework of Action for an Inclusive Dutch Learning Culture (LearningDis)
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Life-course and intergenerational mobility among enslaved people in plantation hierarchies in 18th and 19th-century Suriname
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Sealing and bookkeeping practices in Hittite Anatolia
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Housing an Ageing Society: Institutionalisation in the Netherlands after 1945
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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Community on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Conference, Workshop
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Let sleeping dogs lie: disability, sexuality and Het Dorp residents
Lecture, Economic and Social History Brown Bag Seminar
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EU Commissioner Albuquerque meets with students at Leiden University
Debate
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HR team stelt zich voor
Even voorstellen het HR team stelt zich voor
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The world is changing. How should we as a university adjust our strategy?
At the halfway mark, how should we adjust our strategy to a rapidly changing world? Faculty administrators, academic directors, directors of expertise centres, staff from Administration and Central Services, members of the representative bodies and students assessors met on 6 June to discuss this qu…
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From research in space to director on earth
After ten years and one day, Leiden Observatory has a new director. As of 1 September, Ignas Snellen will set the course for the astronomical institute. In this interview, you will get to know Ignas. Or at least a little. That is why we gave him five dilemmas and asked the people around him who he really…