Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind in...

Professor Beatrice de Graaf held the 53rd Huizinga Lecture on Thursday 12 December. In front of a a sold-out Stadsgehoorzaal, she spoke about how his...

Over the past few months, students and staff from the Faculty of Humanities have produced many wonderful podcasts - perfect for listening during a lon...

In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a c...

Every year, the ECHO Award is presented to students from non-western backgrounds who are committed to social improvement in the field of diversity and...

On 25 November, Professor Ineke Sluiter received the Medal of Honour for Arts and Sciences in the Order of Orange-Nassau. She was presented with the m...

When Petra Sijpesteijn became a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, she was the only Dutch member with an appointment at a Dutc...

If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only whe...

On Friday morning, 18 October, Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl and Professor Remco Breuker welcomed Korea Foundation President Gheewan Kim.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...

For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of ...

‘Strong, smart and together’ is the name of the recently published Defence White Paper, which is being debated in the House of Representatives along w...

Leiden students are producing ‘College Tour, the podcast!’ with TV presenter Twan Huys. In next to no time, they have to find top journalists and prep...

A team of researchers based at Leiden has taken over the editorship of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Or...

As a twelve-year-old girl, Nicky van de Beek became intrigued by the tomb chapels in Saqqara, Egypt. Now she is doing her PhD on them, just like anoth...