Simcha is the Professor of Management and Healthcare Innovation and Deputy Director Research at the University College London Global Business School for Health (GBSH). He is also the Program Director of the DBA Health program at UCL GBSH. Simcha has been a Professor at Leiden University since 2016.…

A plant-based diet could improve the resilience of our food system. Moving to such a diet in the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) alone could replace almost all the production losses from Russia and Ukraine. That’s what an international team of researchers conclude in Nature Food. Leiden…

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…

‘It is OK for employees to work flexibly, as long as they spend 40 hours in the office’, said Elon Musk in June 2022. Are we back where we started now that the pandemic is over? What is needed to make flexibility prosper? Helen Pluut is researcher in Organizational Behaviour at Leiden University and…

The Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) Research Seminar is a series launched by the Research Group on Diplomacy and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The seminars of internationally acknowledged guest researchers and faculty members deal with current research topics in…

The Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) Research Seminar is a series launched by the Research Group on Diplomacy and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The seminars of internationally acknowledged guest researchers and faculty members deal with current research topics in…

The Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) Research Seminar is a series launched by the Research Group on Diplomacy and Global Affairs at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. The seminars of internationally acknowledged guest researchers and faculty members deal with current research topics in…

Donald Trump was sworn into his second period as President of the United States on 20 January 2025. Since then, the Trump administration has raised alarms for people around the world who are concerned over what this will mean for the current geopolitical landscape. Join a panel of experts to discuss…

Bernhard Rieger is a Professor of European History at the institute for History.

Michael Sampson is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science

Alyssa Akkerman is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Jelena Belic is an assistant professor of political philosophy at the Institute of Political Science and a co-director of the Center for Political Philosophy at Leiden University.

In a new Transforming Society article, Salvador Santino Regilme, Associate Professor and Chair of the International Relations Program at Leiden University, critiques the Trump administration’s US–China tariff war as a covert instrument of domestic class warfare.

Ralph Rippe is a tenured Associate Professor at the Institute of Child and Education Studies, Leiden University.

Catia Antunes is a Professor of History of Global Economic Networks at the institute for History.

Anne-Isabelle Richard is a university lecturer at the Institute for History.

Are you thinking about studying at a university college and are you wondering what studying at Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is like? Would you like to delve a bit deeper into our programme and have a first hand experience of a sample class? Then make sure to join us for our Experience…

Remus Dame investigates the coupling of genome organization and genome activity and the factors that fine-tune these processes in bacteria and archaea. He studies the proteins involved in vitro as well as in vivo using state-of-the-art biochemical and biophysical approaches.

Jue Wang is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. Jue is a scholar of Chinese economy and Global Political Economy. With a regional focus on China, her areas of expertise include international political economy, development finance, international organisations, technology…

Karin de Wild is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Museum and Collection Studies at Leiden University. Her current research is about digital heritage collections.

Stephan Raaijmakers is a professor of Communicative AI at the Centre for Linguistics.

Catalina Vicens Jeldrez is PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts.

The central question of my research is: Which syntactic properties do all languages have in common, which properties are variable and which associations are there between these syntactic variables? The goal of this research is to contribute to a theory of natural language that explains the range and…

The ‘Global Questions Seminar’ invites distinguished international colleagues and brings all staff members of the Leiden University Institute for History together.

The ‘Global Questions Seminar’ invites distinguished international colleagues and brings all staff members of the Leiden University Institute for History together.

The ‘Global Questions Seminar’ invites distinguished international colleagues and brings all staff members of the Leiden University Institute for History together.

The ‘Global Questions Seminar’ invites distinguished international colleagues and brings all staff members of the Leiden University Institute for History together.

Simone Rijksen is participating as a dual PhD Candidate in the Leiden University Dual PhD Centre The Hague programme. Working title dissertation: 'Kenmerken en condities van reflectieve dialoog in de context van samenwerkende en samen lerende docenten in het Nederlandse basisonderwijs'. (Characteristics…

The Institute for Philosophy has a new Academic Director: on 1 February, James McAllister was succeeded by Douglas Berger. We asked him about his plans.

Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison’.

Leiden University joins the Just Transitions for AMR Working Group, an interdisciplinary team of social science and humanities researchers who are exploring ways to mitigate the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in a just and equitable manner, with due consideration to the human rights of present…

Are you thinking about studying at a university college and are you wondering what Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) is like? Would you like to delve a bit deeper into our programme and have a first-hand experience of a sample class? Then make sure to join us for our Experience Day!

José María achieved a BA degree in Ethnology at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) and an MA in Anthropological Sciences at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).

Nira Wickramasinghe is Professor of Modern South Asian Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Global rhetoric: an informal workshop on theories and practices of persuasion across cultures How do people convince each other? Every day we are confronted with the rhetoric of Trump, Putin, and Meloni. Rhetoric, the art of speaking and persuading, is often considered an invention of the Greeks and…

Vincent K.L. Chang is a university lecturer in history and international relations and a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre. He focuses on historical experiences and contemporary approaches to nation building, conflict, diplomacy and law in the East Asian and Indo-Pacific contexts. His main areas…

In this ‘Educatips’ column, Psychology lecturers share their most important lessons about teaching. This month: Sepideh Saadat guides a support group for students who struggle with the Israel-Hamas war. ‘Some of them feel guilty about enjoying life while their family is suffering.’

Henrike Vellinga is a PhD researcher for the

Saskia van Otterloo works as a policy advisor on climate adaptation at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. She graduated in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology and development sociology. How does her knowledge of anthropology help her in her job…

Let’s take a look behind the scenes of the Faculty Board. Our assessor, Hannah Saberi, shares her typical working week.

Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.

Alies Jansen is a PhD candidate in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at the Institute for History at Leiden University. In 2025, she is a visiting researcher in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Overnight, working from home became the ‘new normal’ for most Leiden University’s employees. And now, just as abruptly, we are heading back to the office. ‘But it will be different than before, we expect that most of the employees will continue to work from home for one or more days a week.’ Niels Laurens,…

Roderick Bouman is collection manager of the Leiden Hortus botanicus. He keeps track of which plants there are in the garden, where they come from and makes sure visitors can find the right information about them. ‘We are like a regular museum,’ says Bouman. ‘Except that our objects are alive. That…

Stephen Harris is a University Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

The need for knowledge among practitioners and the lack of an academic knowledge base for specifically collective arrangements of social work in the Netherlands were the reason for Anouk de Koning, Femke Kaulingfreks and Maartje van der Woude to start working on a Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) application…

Leiden University wants to ensure that working abroad on a short-term or long-term basis is properly managed. This applies to staff coming from other countries to work at Leiden University or staff wishing to work or move abroad. A new authorisation procedure applies from 1 July 2025.