Dutch municipalities are racing to digitalise, introducing virtual services, fraud-detection algorithms and more. The digital city may not always serv...

More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more calorific, less nutritious and potentially more toxic. If we do not intervene, this could cause m...

Literature – and films and social media too – helps us understand ourselves and society. That makes literary studies an eternally modern discipline, e...

Eighteen of the 150 newly elected Dutch MPs studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research there. Who are they and what did they study?

Alex Geurds, Professor of Central American Archaeology, will become Dean of Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology on 1 January. He succeeds Jan K...

Rich, white, urban: Western politicians often represent a small segment of the population. Political scientist Hélène Landemore advocates for a more i...

Chinese Studies, History or Urban Studies? How do you choose the right degree programme for you? Hundreds of prospective students tried to find out at...

Inequality could be addressed in the classroom without taking too much time, effort or money. By making one small change, teachers can make a big diff...

In general, there are significant health disparities between people with low and high incomes, particularly in countries with an extensive welfare sta...

Six Leiden University members of staff recently received the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant for exchange projects with non-European part...