It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how factors such as nationality, political systems, and religion influence the first thousand days after…

What’s at stake at the NATO summit in The Hague? Three academics from Leiden share their insights.

In the student-made documentary, our Field School manager, Dr Arjan Louwen, gives a brief introduction on the importance of the excavation in Oss. Watch the documentary below.

For hundreds of years, children in Ancient Egypt learned to read using The Satire of the Trades, a text in which a father gives advice to his son through descriptions of different professions. PhD candidate Judith Jurjens investigated how this worked in practice.

Het onderzoeksproject heeft als doel ouders te helpen hun kleuters gezonde eetgewoonten aan te leren door het bevorderen van sensitieve voeding tijdens de fase wanneer peuters kieskeurig met eten worden.

Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.

The compulsory reading list is infamous among secondary school students, and for all the wrong reasons. This prompted the Faculty of Humanities and the Onderwijsnetwerk Zuid-Holland (South Holland Education Network) to launch the Alternative Reading List Award, in search of books that motivate young…

Alistair Kefford is a historian and urbanist. He is a specialist in the development of cities and society in the modern era. His current research focuses on the rise of real estate development and its far-reaching impacts on cities and citizens all over the world. He is chair of Leiden's Urban Studies…

Martijn van Ette is a PhD-candidate at Leiden's Institute for History. Being part of Dr. Andrew Gawthorpe's NWO-funded project that focusses on American foreign policy and (il)liberalism, he focuses on Southeast Asia and the perceptions that shaped America's strategic interpretations of the region.

Louis Sicking lectures medieval and early modern history at the Leiden University Institute for History and is Aemilius Papinianus professor of History of Public International Law, at VU University Amsterdam.

Matthew Frear is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History. He teaches and supervises students on the BA International Studies, MA International Relations, BA Russian Studies, and MA Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. His main fields of research are Russian and Eurasian politics and international…

Monday, 3 April, the yearly field school for all first-year students at the Faculty of Archaeology will start. The municipality of Oss is welcoming our 120 students and provides an excellent practical learning stage for the basic skills they will need to master for their professional careers.

On 8 December, in honour of Human Rights Week, Roeland Böcker gave a public lecture about his experiences as ambassador to the Council of Europe. Between 2017 and 2021, Roeland Böcker was the representative of the Netherlands in the Council of Europe.

Michel Wyss is a PhD student at the Institute for History.

Title research: Living with the limits of EU non-discrimination law: In search of alternatives

Title research: The Interaction between Competition Law and International Investment Law

Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Title research: Judicial independence in the context of accession to the European Union.

Title research: EU rule of law promotion in the Western Balkans through judicial reforms: strengthening the rule of law through the EU driven judicial vetting process in Albania

Title research: Competition law enforcement.

Title research: Addressing business-related economic, social and cultural rights violations in post-conflict transitional justice: A case study on the extractive industries’ role during conflict and transition.

Title research: The Role of Partnerships in Supporting and Advancing the Corporate Responsibility to Respect human Rights in Supply Chains.

Travis Bowman is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Research title: Financial regulatory law through a philosophical lens

Juliette Staüdt is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Talha Gunay is a Meijers PhD candidate at the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School. His research concerns the judicial and administrative implications of the increased cooperation on return between the EU authorities (Frontex) and Member States under EU law.

Title research: Do the ECtHR judgments and decisions dealing with applications that concern unrecognized states have an impact on the political process of conflict resolution? If yes, is this impact positive or negative?

Title research: Digital Labour Platforms and the Upholding of Fundamental Labour Rights.

Title research The extent to which modern illiberal democracies can be reconciled with international human rights law

Rosanne Baars is a NWO-Veni postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for History.

Title reacherch:Environmental Migration in a Regional Perspective: Protection and Opportunities through Regional Free Movement Regimes and Regional Human Rights Treaties.

Mario de Jonge is an educational adviser and researcher at ICLON.

Johan de Jong is assistant professor in Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. He also holds a research fellowship in the project “Nietzsche: Experiment en nihilisme” at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen.

Ron Vollebregt is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.

Title research: The domestic impact of European Law in the new Member States

Hein Drop is an external PhD candidate / guest at the Institute for History.

Are you worried about your smartphone addiction? Trust us, it could have been far worse… A shocking discovery, by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from Leiden University, revealed that Neolithic people were heavily addicted to stone axes. The axes were produced under horrific circumstances in…