Blogs by academics

Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.

Leiden University group blogs

• Anthropology Blog: Leiden anthropologists give an insight into their research.
• Archaeology Blog: about research at the Faculty of Archaeology.
• Art History Blog: about the research and activities of the students and lecturers from the Art History programme.
• Digital Scholarship@Leiden: for researchers wishing to use social media to promote their research
• Islam Blog: Islam experts on the history of Islam and its relation to society
• Law Blog: legal experts shine their light on actual legal matters.
• Medievalists Blog: all about the Middle Ages
• Psychology Blog: about psychological research and responses to recent developments.
• Security and Global Affairs Blog: Various themes relating to security and society on the 
• Special Collections Blog: about the Leiden University Libraries special collections.

More group blogs featuring Leiden researchers

• ASCL Africanist Blog: Africa specialists blog about research, fieldwork, conferences, new publications and teaching experiences.
• Bridging the Unbridgeable: this blog aims to provide feedback on all sorts of questions concerning the usage of English
• China Leiden Weblog: presents activities related to China and Taiwan organised by the Leiden University China Studies Program and its partners. 
• CWTS blog: analysing academic output.
• Embedding Conquest: 'Eyeopeners' from this Leiden ERC research project 
• ICLON Research Blog; Teaching and Teacher Learning:  ICLON teaching experts blog about teaching and teacher development.
• KITLV blog: focusing on Southeast Asia and the Caribbean.
• LUCAS: PhD candidates blog and vlog about art and society.
• Rethinking Disability: historians look at the global impact of UN policy for disabled people.

Personal blogs of Leiden researchers

• Counter Voices in Africa: cultural anthropologist Mirjam de Bruijn.
• Dutch Anglo-Saxonist: Thijs Porck on language and culture in the Middle Ages.
• Felienne Hermans: weblog on programming.
• IGLOBTAXGOV: Irma Johanna Mosquera Valderrama about her ERC project.
• Politics East Asia: China expert Florian Schneider.

Podcasts

• In Leiden Psychology Perspective: The Podcast Series, students and researchers share their perspective on psychological research and recent developments within the field of psychology. 
• Africa Knows brings you conversations with African(ist) scholars and thinkers who talk about their own work, the decolonisation of the academy, and the knowledge revolution taking shape all over the African continent. 
• Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe podcast series
• The Hague Diplomacy Podcast: podcast of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy.
• For the Integrated Projects course students create podcasts about physical violence and public order
• Podcasts by members of study association ISSA (International Studies)
• In the It's Not Easy Being Green podcast Leiden University Green Office provides tips on how to live and work more sustainable
• A Very Mindful Podcast (created by the Centre for Innovation) is a podcast for students, professionals and anyone interested in mindfulness and mental health.
• Also by the Centre for Innovation: What If Education, a podcast in which teachers, students and experts share their ideas of how they think the future of education will unfold.