News
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New publication on fairness, AI and recruitment 18 April 2024
Carlotta Rigotti and Eduard Fosch-Villaronga have published a new article that offers an insightful and critical literature review on fairness and AI ...
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What’s Your Story?: diversiteit in een kaartspel 18 April 2024
The JEDI Fund supports projects that promote diversity and inclusivity within the university. One of these projects is the card game called ‘What’s Yo...
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Symposium on ten years of progress for children's rights: OPIC 18 April 2024
In a collaborative effort between the Leiden Children’s Rights Observatory, the Leiden Law Academy, UNICEF and the Petitions Section of the Office of ...
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With 30 million dollars, this consortium aims to tackle tuberculosis 17 April 2024
Thanks to a clever research method, progress is being made in the quest for better tuberculosis medications. Within an American consortium that receiv...
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The Netherlands and China work together to improve their wastewater management 17 April 2024
Netherlands and China can learn from each other to handle household and livestock wastewater more sensibly. In the FOREWARD project, scientists from L...
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Christa Tobler speaks about ‘CJEU case law on gender diversity and discrimination’ 17 April 2024
On 16 April 2024, ERA (Europäische Rechtsakademie / European Law Academy) organised an online conference on the subject of 'Legal Aspects of Gender Id...
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Military pilot and political scientist Jorik ter Veer: ‘I work with the invisible heroes of society’ 17 April 2024
Not your typical student life but training that demands sheer hard work: that was the choice Jorik ter Veer (now 45) made when he signed up for the Ro...
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Atherosclerosis resembles an autoimmune disease. Marie Depuydt graduated on this topic, with honours 17 April 2024
In addition to cholesterol and high blood pressure as risk factors for atherosclerosis, we may need to address our own immune system to prevent a hear...
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Erwin Muller appointed Vice-Rector of Organisational Development 17 April 2024
Leiden University’s Executive Board has appointed Erwin Muller as Vice Rector of Organisational Development. In this role, he will help further profes...
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’ 16 April 2024
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, t...
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How these young researchers are preparing for their first scientific conference 16 April 2024
Three Psychology students will present a poster of their thesis research on Alzheimer’s and dementia at the international conference AAIC Neuroscience...
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Call for statements of interest: MARS staff exchange programme "Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective" 16 April 2024
Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a researc...
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Leiden’s poo can help rid patients of resistant gut bacteria 16 April 2024
Transferring poo from healthy donors to the intestines of chronically ill people has beneficial effects on these recipients’ gut bacteria, also in the...
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open 16 April 2024
Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open R...
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Jason Rudall publishes book on responsibility for environmental damage 16 April 2024
Jason Rudall, Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, has published a monograph entitle...