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The Social Dynamics of Gender-Based Violence News - 23 September 2025
From street harassment to coercive control: gender-based violence has many faces. University Lecturer Mischa Dekker has studied street harassment in the Netherlands and France, and supports institutions and organisations in embedding structural change.

Switch-It-Up Wednesday: choose plant-based and sustainable in our cafés Announcement - 23 March 2026

Plant-based party on campus: discover and enjoy during Meat and Dairy-Free Week Announcement - 25 February 2025
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Leiden archaeologists create open educational resources on agent-based modeling News - 13 June 2024
The past two years, Laura van der Knaap and Professor Karsten Lambers worked on creating open teaching materials on agent-based modeling, funded by Erasmus+ and in collaboration with Danish, Irish and Dutch partners. Programming is an important skill involved in this, which is often seen as intimidating…

LUMC receives tens of millions for research into new stem cell-based treatments News - 2 March 2026
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), as a partner in the reNEW consortium, is once again receiving tens of millions of euros for research into new treatments based on stem cells. The collaboration will receive a total of €150 million to develop new therapies in regenerative medicine.

Wimar Bolhuis chief economist at research-based consultancy firm Ecorys News - 11 November 2021
As chief economist, Bolhuis will conduct research on topical economic issues. Besides this position, he will remain active as a lecturer at the Department of Economics at Leiden Law School.

into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’ News - 26 April 2022
Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.

Wouter Hins: Intimidating journalists undermines democracy based on the rule of law News - 27 October 2022
Angry politicians, angry journalists: the initiative of Forum for Democracy politician Gideon van Meijeren during which he secretly filmed a reporter portraying them as a ‘sewer rat’, caused a lot of anger. Where does all this commotion come from? Wouter Hins: ‘Calling a journalist a "sewer rat" is…

Leiden FSW spin-off Axite receives UNIIQ investment for a home-based brain-monitoring platform News - 9 January 2026
Axite, a start-up rooted in research at Leiden University’s Faculty of Social Sciences (FSW), receives €350,000 from UNIIQ for the further development of NeuroJournal: a platform that uses an EEG headband and smartphone app to provide long-term insight into brain activity outside the laboratory.