450 news items found
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'The effect of the online world on adolescents' 06 July 2022
How do digital technologies affect adolescent mental health and resilience? How do we foster a secure online environment? How should we deal with incr...
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Should you leave academia to handle democracy? 06 July 2022
The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Va...
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Succesful first edition of the MA International Relations Alumni Career Networking Event 04 July 2022
Students, staff members and alumni of the MA International Relations programme gathered together on the first student-alumni career networking event t...
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins 04 July 2022
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lectur...
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ESOF session on vaccines: ‘Infectious diseases know no borders’ 04 July 2022
How can Europe lead the way in vaccine development that is fast and for all? To answer this pressing question, Professor of Vaccinology Meta Roestenbe...
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ 30 June 2022
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leid...
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Former Rector Carel Stolker’s valedictory lecture buried according to tradition 30 June 2022
After three years of covid postponements, the time had finally come on Wednesday 29 June 2022: Carel Stolker’s last speech as Rector Magnificus was bu...
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Broadening the scope of the Social Resilience & Security programme 28 June 2022
The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The pr...
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from? 28 June 2022
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a g...
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Honours students on fieldwork: ‘The police don’t need to be doing dances on TikTok’ 27 June 2022
Interviewing pupils and brainstorming with judges and lawyers. Students from the Trust in the Rule of Law honours course discovered how pupils at the ...
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Renewed Leiden Leadership Programme ‘provides tools to make a difference’ 27 June 2022
The Leiden Leadership Programme is going to innovate. After 12 years, the honours track for master’s students will get a new set-up. We asked two of t...
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration 27 June 2022
Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints an...
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‘Artists seek and research another dimension of science’ 27 June 2022
In July, Leiden will be hosting the EuroScience Open Forum conference. Humanities scholars from Leiden will make use of the opportunity to stress the ...
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Alumnus Asa Splinter: ‘LGBT+ identities are not a burden but a source of inspiration’ 23 June 2022
Even as a teenager Asa Splinter was determined to study Japanese in Leiden. A HAVO diploma and a change in legislation threatened to throw a spanner i...
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Niels got his dream job right after graduating: ‘You work with the best here’ 23 June 2022
What would it be like if you could work with the best in your field every day? Alumnus in International Studies Niels Drost knows just what that’s lik...