Being a student can be stressful. Study pressure, living on your own, moving country, financial stress: things can be difficult. Unexpected difficulties may lead to study delay.

This focus area centres on promoting health and stimulating the physical, mental and social resilience of citizens.

The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina

Critical Edition, Translation and Commentary

This dissertation is a study of North Korean art as a site where politics, history, and culture meet.

Promotores: W.J.G.M. Peijnenburg, G.R. de Snoo, Co-promotor: M.G. Vijver

Vietnam’s record of expanding access to education, and especially its performance on international assessments such as PISA, has raised questions about what Vietnam got right, how, and why and what insights Vietnam’s experiences might offer for efforts at improving the performance of education systems…

Promotor: Erik F. Smets, Co-promotores: Barbara Gravendeel, Niels Raes

Social Policy is increasingly incorporated as a subject of European law. The Social Dialogue with labour and management organisations leads to agreements that can be transformed into Directives of the Council

Debtelin (’boekje’ in het Mantsjoe) is een initiatief van de Leidse sinoloog en mantsjoeïst Fresco Sam-Sin en is gevuld met artikelen van Leidse studenten en onderzoekers sinologie.

This paper explores the historicity of state and Buddhist accounts of the monk Xuanzang 玄奘 (602-664), arguing that in the reconstruction of Xuanzang’s life and career we ought to utilize the former to help adjudicate the latter.

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Viviana Massa defended her thesis on 16 December 2018.

On 15 February 2023 Uzume Wijnsma successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

The interdisciplinary network Faith in Democracy (FID) studies the religious, sometimes even totalitarian, assumptions behind the concept of

The research area of this division is focused on the development of novel therapeutic modalities and novel concepts in early drug discovery, in order to better predict ligand-target interactions.

The programme group Educational Sciences is one of the six programme groups within the Institute of Child and Education Studies at Leiden University.

Overview of the Leiden Asia staff per area or country.

The LLP gives you tools to develop yourself personally, professionally and societally.

Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.

Sociopragmatics is a rapidly growing field and this is the first ever handbook dedicated to this exciting area of study.

On the 18th of June, Abel Warries successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Abel on this achievement!

Idrees Kanth defended his thesis on 7 May 2019

Of jars and gongs deals with the traditional ritual art of Ot Danum Dayak subsistence farmers from a stretch of tropical rainforest in the heart of Borneo. Together with the Ngaju, their neighbours to the south, they gloried in one of the most elaborate secondary mortuary rites in the world.

ERC Starting Grant: The Van Manen Project. This five year project (2023-2028) is made possible with an ERC Starting Grant. It aims to (digitally) reunite all parts of the Van Manen Collection. This enables us to study it as a whole, helping us to understand the process of collection formation. More…

Behavioral Sciences Mental Health Psychological Disorders - Adult Aggression in Adults Psychological Science Social Psychology Criminology & Delinquency Social Sciences Criminology and Criminal Justice Crime and Crime Prevention Criminal Behaviour and Forensic Psychology Violent Crime Law Criminology…

D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017

The Campus Square, officially named Rosalind Franklin Square, is a green gathering place for students, staff, and city residents. It is a place where the university, businesses, and the city of Leiden come together.

The main aim of the project is to collect and update on a regular basis bibliometric and patent indicators that can be used to underpin and inform analyses pursued at the European Commission (EC) to assess European and national scientific and technological performance.

Leiden University offers several programmes and courses on Central Asia. There are bachelor and master programmes and there is also the possibility of doing your PhD in Leiden.

Depending on the research area you are charged with bench fees or not.

Leiden University offers more than 78 master's programmes in various fields taught in English. Tuition fees for master programmes range from 15,000 - 25,000 euros / year depending on the chosen study programme.

The department carries out research in all fields of IP law. The research is a part of the faculty research programme Coherent Private Law.

Leiden University Centre for Intercultural Philosophy (LUCIP) is housed in the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University.

On 19 June, the outdoor area at the KOG will transform into LAWLANDS, featuring live music, DJs, food trucks and much more. Thanks to our sponsors, it’s set to be an unforgettable event. Check out the packed programme below!

The study adviser (or coordinator) is an expert on all aspects of the Media Technology MSc program. If you have any questions or concerns about your studies, whether they be of a practical or academic nature, you can contact your study adviser.

This thesis provides explicit expressions for the density functions of absolutely continuous invariant measures for general families of interval maps, that include random maps and infinite measure transformations, not necessarily number systems.

This thesis has described novel synthetic methods to produce a variety of (glyco)peptides and their application in the study of various immunological processes.

Leiden University has a strong tradition in language teaching, in various settings: for instance in the BA and MA language and culture programmes, area studies programmes, international studies, minors and electives. Currently, 20 different languages are taught throughout different institutes and pr…

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In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition,…

Haneen Omari defended her thesis on 29 October 2019

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Nobuaki Murai defended his thesis on 24 January 2018.

This edited volume offers a critical discussion of the trade-offs between transparency and secrecy in the actual political practice of democratic states in Europe. As such, it answers to a growing need to systematically analyse the problem of secrecy in governance in this political and geographical…

An Ancient Egyptian System of Workmen’s Identity Marks

During the programme you will develop strong analytical and computational skills.

This project aims at recording and safeguarding parts of the intangible cultural heritage of the Dogon in central Mali. A major song cycle, the baja ni, forms an integral part of Dogon funeral traditions. The song cycle is attributed to Abirè, a blind Dogon poet/prophet, probably from the 19th c., who…

LUGO’s monthly Green Drinks are open to students and staff of Leiden University to connect with the LUGO community of staff, board members, committee members, and volunteers. Share your ideas for a sustainability project, connect with like-minded students and staff, and have a Green Drink on us! Don’t…

During the period 500–1000 CE Egypt was successively part of the Byzantine, Persian and Islamic empires. All kinds of events, developments and processes occurred that would greatly affect its history and that of the eastern Mediterranean in general. This is the first volume to map Egypt's position in…