With its ‘Quality Agreements’, Leiden University is working to improve the quality of its teaching. Much has been done since they began at the end of ...

How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, stud...

In June 2020, Caring Universities researched the mental health and resilience of students. This was repeated again in January 2021. The results of thi...

The members of the Duivelsei student association are games mad, be it computer or board games. Game of the Goose and Ludo have fallen out of favour. T...

The LUF International Study Fund (LISF) will make changes to its allocation process following an investigation into diversity in its grants policy. Th...

‘If you want to implement open science, you at least need someone at each faculty who can help researchers to solve practical problems.’ Dorien Huijse...

How do you get fit after these challenging times? How do you create a healthy lifestyle? And how do you motivate yourself to work out again? Find out ...

‘Critical thinking’ is an expression all academics have heard of: it’s the first learning objective in the Leiden Vision on Teaching and Learning. It’...

Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philoso...

After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protest...

South African poet Antjie Krog will be the writer in residence at Leiden University in autumn 2021. Krog is famous for her poetry collections and book...

How do you get fit after these challenging times? How do you actively start a healthy lifestyle? Healthy University Leiden would like to address these...

Almost all the western countries were too late responding to the outbreak of Covid. Why was that? Three governance experts, including Leiden professor...

One of the aims in the development of the university’s new strategic plan is to foster a dialogue between as many students, staff and external stakeho...

Fiffy the chimpanzee had rapidly developed cataracts in both eyes that made her as good as blind. Eye doctors at the Leiden University Medical Center ...