318 search results for “living” in the Student website
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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy
Western civil servants openly struggle with their government’s policies on the war in Gaza. During a meeting at Campus The Hague, three former civil servants told their stories.
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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‘The COVID-19 crisis just goes to show how things can go wrong’
Ijeoma Uchegbu is Professor of Pharmacy at University College London (UCL). As a female scientist of colour, she was initially reluctant to play an active role in the university’s diversity policy. Until, that is, she had a radical change of heart: ‘I knew it; I had to become an evangelist.'
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‘Our students are role models for young children in The Hague’
What better way is there for an alderman to find out where best to put his efforts than to pay a working visit to the university? Hilbert Bredemeijer, Alderman in The Hague for Education, Sport and the Outdoor Space, paid a visit to Campus The Hague on Wednesday 6 October 2021.
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Reporting from ESOF: ‘How can we use science to solve the next crisis?’
From global warming to the decolonisation of knowledge. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden over 500 speakers from 60 countries have come together to discuss the big themes of our times. Why have the delegates come?
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Plastic's Legacy: From Single-Use to Sustainable Solutions
Lecture, Studium Generale
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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa
Lecture
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How to Disappoint your Parents
Career and apply for jobs
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Improve your negotiation techniques with Blanche Voorneman
Career and apply for jobs
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4 - 6 April 2023 - Leiden University Career Event
Course, Online Career Week
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International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence in the Middle East
Debate
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International Experience Week 2023
Sessions and networking events
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Career College: Challenges of an international career
Career and apply for jobs
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Walk-in session for all your questions about finances (SHout Leiden)
Walk-in session
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
Conference
- In Praise of Community Building - World Refugee Day 2025
- International Experience Week 2024
- Potluck Spring Dinner: Meet, Mingle, Munch
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Film Screening: Crip Camp
Arts and culture, Conference | D&I Symposium
- International Experience Week 2025
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Leiden University during the Second World War
Event
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Career College schouwburgstraat Den Haag
Career and apply for jobs
- Purple Friday: Embodying the Change We Want to See
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‘War with Russia more likely now Trump has spurned Europe’
Europe’s security suddenly looks uncertain now President Trump has started negotiations with Putin. What does this mean for the Netherlands? What do we need to do?
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Voice of the ocean
There are many tributaries to Rosalin Kuiper’s story and they all lead to the sea. The 28-year-old sailor was one of the five-person Team Malizia in the world’s most prestigious sailing competition: the Ocean Race.
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Meet the four Leiden participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme
Four PhD candidates from Leiden University started the two-year Europaeum Scholars Programme this month. They have now completed the first week of the programme. How was it and what do they expect from this programme?
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‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
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‘Divisions are there to be bridged’
Annetje Ottow is stepping down as President of Leiden University’s Executive Board on 1 September 2025 after almost five years in the role. She looks back at the highs and lows – and ahead to what’s next.
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Listening, asking questions and soaking up the atmosphere at the Bachelor’s Open Day
So many interesting programmes, but which one suits me best? It was the Bachelor’s Open Day in Leiden and The Hague on Saturday 12 October. Among the many things to do in The Hague, prospective students could find out more about three new bachelor’s programmes: Science for Sustainable Societies, Cybersecurity…
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Statement on Academic Freedom – The Rectors of the Dutch Universities (2025)
Without academic freedom, we might not have antibiotics, nor a deep understanding of human behaviour. Literary criticism, climate models, and ecological restoration would be severely limited; just like ethical reflection on artificial intelligence, justice, trauma, parenting, faith and hope. All these…
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city
‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-person day of the EL CID on 16 August, which could easily have spoiled this impression. But fortunately the showers – apart from one – fell somewhere else,…
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To do a PhD or not to do a PhD? Speed date about it with alumni!
Career and apply for jobs
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Career College: Working as a Consultant - Faculty of LUMC / Science
Career and apply for jobs
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Working for the EU, something for you?
Career and apply for jobs
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Guest lecture by 113 on suicide prevention
Lecture
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Join the Gorlaeus biodiversity walk
Walk
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
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Human rights and Global Diversity
Lecture, Opening of the Owada Chair
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Yenching Academy of Peking University information session
Study information
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Money Matters: Financial Distress and Sustainable Change
Panel Discussion
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SAILS x GTGC Roundtable on AI & Governance
Seminar
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Tailoring support for refugee students: ‘They are amazed at the number of options’
Many people have fled to the Netherlands since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, including students. But even before this war, students with refugee backgrounds were eager to study at Leiden University. How does the University help young people from various backgrounds find their way around the Dutch…
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…