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Psychologist Bart Verkuil strikes a blow against burnout
Burnout is on the increase. It is caused by group pressure, being ‘on’ all the time and asking too much of ourselves. Clinical psychologist Bart Verkuil advises lowering our expectations.
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years
Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Hester Bijl. What does her lunch usually consist of? The University Sports Centre is celebrating its fifty-year anniversary with a whole - corona-proof - programme…
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Interview: Physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as KNAW President
On May 28th, Leiden physicist Wim van Saarloos takes office as President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has been vice-president since 2016. ‘The base of our universities is eroding.’
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NWO grant for research facility into the impact of environmental factors on health
What is the influence of non-hereditary factors on our health, such as lifestyle, diet and exposure to harmful substances? The Exposome-Scan project, led by Leiden professor Thomas Hankemeier, has been awarded 3.2 million euros from the NWO Investment Grant Large programme to answer this question. With…
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Young thinkers pit their brains on the circular economy
How can we speed up the transition from large cities to a circular metropolis? This is the question that Leiden students and former students Elsemieke, Fabian and Eveline are getting their teeth into. They and seventeen other young academics are taking part in the National ThinkTank and they have four…
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LUC Alumna makes it to Trouw Sustainable 100
The Sustainable 100 is an initiative by Dutch newspaper Trouw, consisting of a list of the top 100 sustainable civil initiatives. In October of 2020, the Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Youth Climate Movement NL) became the first youth organization to win first prize. An interview with LUC Alumna and Board Member…
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Lights out, stars on: Daan Roosegaarde on Seeing Stars Leiden
‘What if we switch off all the lights one evening? That idea crossed my mind from time to time. And when I mentioned it to a taxi driver one day, he said: “Oh, you mean: lights out, stars on!” That’s not completely true, of course, because the stars are always on, but his phrase summed up the idea n…
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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’
To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden University. ‘My love for Chekhov hasn’t faded,’ says Van der Ent from his home 60 kilometres south of Kyiv. ‘But it has for the rest of Russia.’
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Caelesta Braun & Bert Fraussen awarded NIG Supervisor of the Year Award
Each year, the Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) invites PhD students from Public Administration departments at universities in the Netherlands and Flanders to nominate their supervisor(s) for the NIG Supervisor of the Year Award, to celebrate and recognize excellent PhD supervision. This year,…
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Highlights of 2025 at Leiden Law School
2025 was a year to remember at our faculty. We celebrated our 450th anniversary, launched new degree programmes and welcomed many inspiring speakers, yet we also felt the weight of budget constraints. Our year in a nutshell:
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Medical Delta professor Andrew Webb: ‘In The Netherlands, people are much more open to cooperation’
Commercial MRI systems cost millions of euros to purchase and require highly trained technicians to operate. Prof. Andrew Webb works on accessible MRI techniques that offer new opportunities in both developed and developing countries. Webb is a professor at the Radiology Department of the LUMC and,…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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One in five prisoners overlooked by professionals
Prisoners deserve better professional support when preparing to return to society. PhD candidate Amanda Pasma: ‘You can’t imprison everyone for life. Society will have to give prisoners a second chance.’
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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Opening academic year 2025-2026
Academic ceremony
- Open Science Coffee: Mentoring for Open and Robust Science
- OSCoffee: Trust vs. accountability - from red tape to red flag
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Kick-off meeting Health Humanities
Lecture
- Open Day
- Workshop: ‘Worker’s Health and Material Environment in Port Cities (1300-1700)’ (Leiden University and University Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
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Leiden Africa Platform Annual Meeting
Conference
- OSCoffee: Building a data competence center for Population Health Management
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LUCIP Colloquium "Tough Compassion: Chŏng Yagyong’s Political Theory of Meritocracy"
Lecture
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Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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3rd History and Philosophy of Physics in the Netherlands Workshop
Conference
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HI The Hague Student Area
Festival
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Towards Clinical Implementation of Quantitative PET and SPECT Imaging
PhD defence
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European social policy in neoliberal times: dealing with social issues during and after the Delors years
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Multi-level approaches for the proteoform characterization of therapeutic antibodies by mass spectrometry
PhD defence
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Virtual Reality documentary 'Shelter' at Campus The Hague
VR experience | Just Peace Festival
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Cosmic tomography with weak gravitational lensing
PhD defence
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Deep learning for vascular segmentation and tissue characterization in CT images
PhD defence
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Cheia de Axé (Full of Axé): Spirituality, Resistance, and Repair in Pernambuco’s Afro-Brazilian Traditional Communities
CADS Research Seminar
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Publishing beyond the market
Seminar
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'Blauwdruk' by Sara Kolster
Orange the World 2025
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Programme
This was the programme for The Knowledge Orchard 2025:
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CCLS Past Events
On this page you can find information about previous CCLS events.
- Seasons of Interdisciplinarity
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
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Team
The team of WIIS-Netherlands exists out of the board members and the advisory council.
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Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
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Fire in Human Evolution
Conference
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Award ceremony: Jaap Doek Children's Rights Thesis Award 2024
Prijsuitreiking
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webinar Population Health Management
Study information
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What Works in Suicide Prevention? Lessons from the 113 Helpline
Lecture
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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Abortion, Law, and Everyday Ethics in India: Women’s Reproductive Choices in Everyday World
Conversation
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Teaching for Sustainable Tomorrows: A Climate Change Education Workshop
Study information, Workshop
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Kearifan Kesehatan Lokal
PhD defence