To what extent is the image of the Taino settlements on Hispaniola representative for the whole island, or is it only related to a few large settlements of known caciques?

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) is a research institute at Leiden University working on improving how science is practiced and governed and how it serves society.

In Applied Archaeology, you follow your personal interests, and choose a matching career profile and regional focus. What kind of archaeologist will you become? In the Applied Archaeology programme you get to plot your own course!

Our researchers form a unique and interdisciplinary team who are active in various fields.

Today’s socio-economic challenges aren’t new. In the centuries after the retreat of the Roman state people with different backgrounds and with different ways of life somehow managed to build and maintain a complex economic system in northern Gaul that would produce the ruling dynasties of Europe. By…

The first decade of excavations at Oss

One of the current research projects funded by the profile area Political Legitimacy is the research group From Disorder to Order: Conflict and the Resources of Legitimacy.

The research profile area Interaction between Legal Systems has a multidisciplinary approach and aims to inspire innovative research. Out of all the proposals put forward, three winning projects have been selected for the forthcoming research period 2016-2020.

Research at Leiden Law School means research at the highest level.

In the one-year Linguistics specialisation programme you will be able to focus on a specific thematic or disciplinary route, reflecting the linguistics expertise present at Leiden University.

Local settlement system and social structure in the roman period at Oss (the Netherlands).

On this page you will find resources developed by the project team, such as bibliographies, reading lists, template case-studies as well as the team's training and seminar activities.

The 'living lab' Vrouwe Vennepolder is situated just north of Leiden, The Netherlands, and aims to find ways to improve the agriculture of the future.

'Trust in institutions' is one of Leiden Law School's four research focus areas.

Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP) is the largest knowledge centre in the Netherlands in the field of life sciences & health and is also highly regarded internationally. The clustering of high-quality education, research, care and business attract students, scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the…

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

On dinsdag 26 juni 2018, Linlin Sun defended her doctoral thesis ‘International Environmental Obligations and Liabilities in Deep Seabed Mining’. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. N.J. Schrijver en Prof. dr. E.C.P.D.C. De Brabandere.

The Central Asia Initiative in Leiden was launched by the Leiden research area Asia Modernities and Traditions (AMT) in February 2015.

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Research reveals how boys respond to harassment awareness training and why they often fail to see street harassment as 'their' problem.

The CSPPR’s activities range from hosting public events to small-scale seminars with internal and external experts.

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

The miniaturization of machines towards the micron and nanoscale requires the development of joint-like elements that enable and constrain motion. We developed a facile method to create colloidal joints, that is, anisotropic colloidal particles functionalized with surface mobile DNA linkers that control…

The profile area Political Legitimacy brings together researchers from multiple research institutes within Leiden University.

The Saalian archaeological record at Maastricht-Belvédère (the Netherlands).

LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.

Written by a select international group of leading privacy scholars, Social Dimensions of Privacy endorses and develops an innovative approach to privacy.

Acknowledging the work and effort of Leiden University staff is one step closer to having a more sustainable University.

This page provides information to support your application for the Master's programme of Bio-Pharmaceutical Sciences.

On the 13th of October, Cesko Voeten successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cesko on this achievement!

Promotor: G.R. de Snoo, W. Kustiawan, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh

This focus area adresses the social context of health and well-being, with a particular emphasis on social inequality.

In this project we develop algorithms to automatically detect a particular type of archaeological sites in satellite images of the Alps.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

Once you have decided on your field of research, you should start looking for a supervisor as early as possible.

The theme 'Health and well-being in a healthy society' is one of the focal points of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW). We are committed to promoting health and well-being for people of all ages.

The Rosalind Franklin Square, also known as the campus square, is a green meeting place for students, staff, and city residents. It’s where the university, the business community, and the city of Leiden come together.

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Read more about our staff here.

What are the institutional dynamics of the adoption of internal market legislation?

PLATO is a centre for research and development in education and training. 4 areas of expertise and 4 methods.

Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)

Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia.