On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver his inaugural lecture titled ‘Quality of Cancer Care: why the real world matters’. Wouters will use the opportunity to describe how quality registries…

The ERC Council has awarded Starting Grants to five promising Leiden researchers. With an impressive three laureates, the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has done particularly well. The fourth grant goes to the LUMC and the fifth to the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.

Since the beginning of September, urban criminologist Marianne Franken has been the linchpin of a special partnership between Leiden University, the municipality of Leiden and the police. As a PhD candidate she will spend four years conducting research into how safe the people of Leiden feel.

In June 2020, Caring Universities researched the mental health and resilience of students. This was repeated again in January 2021. The results of this second investigation show that more students are reporting psychological issues such as stress and mood swings than during the first investigation.

Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam have worked together for many years on numerous aspects of teaching, research and valorisation. In 2012 this collaboration was formalised in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance.

The year 2021 is coming to an end, and with it the first official year of EUniWell. We want to reflect on our highlights of the year with you, celebrate what we have achieved within EUniWell so far and look to the future, to all that is yet to come!

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

‘AI can’t do half as much as people think,’ says computer scientist and psychologist Roy de Kleijn. He tries to teach robots seemingly easy things, and keeps on discovering how smart human intelligence really is. Three things that computers are no way near doing.

The Research Traineeship Programme gives students the opportunity to be part of a research project within the Faculty of Humanities.

internship, research project, fieldwork, summer school, conference, excursion, field trip, thesis

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

The chance that it will do so is about zero, but Russia is legally obliged to investigate violations of law during the war in Ukraine. States that enter into an armed conflict often deny liability, but under international humanitarian law and human rights they are obliged to investigate their military…

Diversity and inclusion are core values of Leiden University. Leiden University has committed itself to a policy that aims to become an inclusive community which enables all students and staff to feel valued and respected, and to develop their full potential. The Diversity & Inclusion Expertise Office…

On 2 November, nine professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta Professor’ at Leiden University, LUMC, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University and Erasmus MC. With an appointment at a minimum of two of these five academic institutions, they combine technology and healthcare…

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Some study programmes have a coordinator who is specialised in assisting students with internship and research matters.

Some study programmes have a coordinator who is specialised in assisting students with internship and research matters.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

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Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much further. A study by archaeologists at Leiden University on the use of fire shows that 400,000 years ago knowledge and skills must already have been exchanged…

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Research into depression in children, Leiden alumni in the Dutch House of Representatives and an exceptional achievement by one of our students: what do this topics have in common? They are among our most read stories of 2021.

Hunter-gatherers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden University in collaboration with other researchers. Neanderthals used fire to keep the landscape open and thus had a big impact on their local environment.…

Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam have worked together for many years on numerous aspects of teaching, research and valorisation. In 2012 this collaboration was formalised in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities strategic alliance.

Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…

Research

internship, research project, fieldwork, summer school, conference, excursion, field trip, thesis

Gaining research experience is an essential part of any academic study programme. There are various ways in which you can gain research experience.

Some study programmes have a coordinator who is specialised in assisting students with internship and research matters.

The applications for the Research Traineeship 2022 have been closed. Below you can find an overview of the current projects with their supervisors and trainees.

The Master of Medicine at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) has won the national biennial award for best educational innovation in medical teaching. It was awarded the prize by the Netherlands Association for Medical Education (NVMO) for its MasterMinds Challenge (MMC).

internship, research project, fieldwork, summer school, conference, excursion, field trip, thesis

University elections

Is the child benefits scandal an omen for the future and will people’s lives soon be fully dominated by algorithms? Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Reijer Passchier warns that the encroaching digitalisation is giving the executive branch even more power, leaving parliament…

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Your most important rights and obligations as a student are laid down in the Student charter. How this statute is implemented is detailed in various faculty and educational regulations, for example your study programme’s Education and Examination Regulations (OER in Dutch).