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• A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contexts News - 26 August 2025

  A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large number of co-authors in a bold attempt to expand and deepen how democracy is studied and understood. Among…

• Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking News - 14 November 2025

  Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic film.

• Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies Event
• Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lecture: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and World History Event - 8 June 2026

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• Prompt Power: Using AI Tools for Political Science Research (The Hague session) Event - 13 March 2025

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• Prompt Power: Using AI Tools for Political Science Research (Leiden session) Event - 17 March 2025

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  Unaesah Rahmah PhD candidate / self funded

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  Lars Brummel Assistant professor

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  Thomas Renard Guest employee

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  Alysa Eijkelenboom PhD candidate

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  Vittorio Nespeca Postdoc

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  Christward Gradenwitz Lecturer

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  Marie-Therese Meye Postdoc

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  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve Assistant professor

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  Mily Crevels Guest researcher

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

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  Liliana Morawietz Yanez PhD candidate

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  Nadia Rojas PhD candidate

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  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

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  Nicole Pereira Ríos PhD candidate

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  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

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  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia PhD candidate

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  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

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  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

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  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

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  Theresa St John PhD candidate

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  Daphne Engel PhD candidate

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

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  Matthias Lukkes PhD candidate

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• Previous projects

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• European Border Policing Amidst (Geo-)Political Turmoil Event - 14 April 2025

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• CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body Event - 19 November 2025

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  Wouter Wagemakers Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa Event - 20 November 2025

  Conference, 2-day Workshop

• colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa Event - 17 April 2026

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

• Call for Participants: Researching Migration Policy in Autocratizing Countries News - 10 June 2025

  Are you doing research on migration policy in a country that is facing democratic backsliding or breakdown, or that is deepening its already-autocratic character? Are you struggling with how to best do your research so that it is meaningful and scientifically sound yet safe for you and research participants?…

• Van de keukentafel tot de hoogste Haagse kringen: iedereen lobbyt News - 27 October 2022

  Je onderdompelen in de wereld van de lobby. Dat kan op donderdag 10 november tijdens de Nacht van de Lobbyist, een publiek event dat de Universiteit Leiden en de Public Affairs Academie voor de 2de keer organiseren. Vijf vragen aan initiatiefnemer Bert Fraussen, universitair docent bij het Instituut…

• The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy Event - 4 June 2025

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• Cultural genocide: 'I see no scenario in which Uyghur culture can revive in Xinjiang' News - 26 April 2023

  Within just a few years, the Chinese government's policy towards the Uyghurs deteriorated sharply. From control and marginalisation, it shifted to violation of human rights. PhD candidate Elke Spiessens was right in the middle of it with her research. 'The fabric of the community is being completely…

• Research into sustainable finance: ‘Vidi funding is an amazing opportunity’ News - 6 July 2022

  Natascha van der Zwan is one of twelve scientist of Leiden University that have been awarded a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros in this round. The Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Administration conducts research into investment politics and how to make the financial system more sustainable.…

• Leiden archaeologist investigates washed up plastics with National Geographic grant News - 20 December 2023

  Roberto Arciero is part of RESPIRE project (Research Educational and Storytelling Project in Italian Remote Ecosystem), an international and interdisciplinary research team led by Martina Capriotti (University of Camerino) that received the National Geographic Meridian grant. Among the different topics,…