450 news items found
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Bringing a community together with soup 12 July 2021
As part of her Anthropology studies, Leiden student Marleen Kop has made a short documentary about the importance of Leiden-Noord’s ‘soup time’. Her c...
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Anyone can fall victim to cybercrime 12 July 2021
Criminology students Simone Kruijt and Noor Hekker conducted research into cybercrime in Leiden and presented their findings to the regional police an...
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Covid influences sustainability at Leiden University too in 2020 05 July 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has had us working and studying at home, and this has had a positive effect on Leiden University’s sustainability results. Th...
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Mission successful: deposits on small plastic bottles 29 June 2021
After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...
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Support the Rapidemic team and help them develop a mobile testing kit 28 June 2021
A team of students from Leiden won the iGEM international biology contest in 2020 with their Rapidemic mobile testing kit. The kit makes it easy to de...
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Healthy University Leiden: keeping up the momentum 28 June 2021
Healthy University Leiden held its ‘From #COVID to #GOFIT Week’ from 21 to 25 June. Over 600 students and staff found inspiration in a week full of t...
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High response to NSE 2021: Leiden students fairly satisfied despite coronavirus 23 June 2021
Leiden students are fairly satisfied with their degree programme. This is clear from the first results of the National Student Survey 2021, which was ...
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Six projects that have come about thanks to the Quality Agreements 18 June 2021
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 ...
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Fieldwork in Leiden 16 June 2021
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...
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Second Caring Universities research results: students are reporting more psychological issues 15 June 2021
In June 2020, Caring Universities researched the mental health and resilience of students. This was repeated again in January 2021. The results of thi...
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From Werewolves to Esports fanatics: all are welcome at Het Duivelsei association 14 June 2021
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...
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LISF committee investigates gender bias 14 June 2021
The LUF International Study Fund (LISF) will make changes to its allocation process following an investigation into diversity in its grants policy. Th...
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Psychology lab embraces open science 14 June 2021
‘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...
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Get fit during the Healthy University #COVID to #GOFIT-week 14 June 2021
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 ...
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Critical thinking? Or rather generous thinking? 11 June 2021
‘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’...