Sandy Overgaauw has been awarded a 25,000 euro grant from the LUF for her research into PTSD in Syrian refugee children in the Netherlands. The resear...

The human dimension must be brought back to the fore, Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in response to the child benefits scandal. But how? A group of re...

After years of lobbying by environmental activists, a deposit scheme for small plastic bottles is to be introduced on 1 July 2021. One of the leaders ...

In a new series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this first instalment: novelist and co...

Alumnus Théo Pavlović received the Masters Speckmann award for his thesis: PAN RECORDS - A digital journey through the ethnic music niche that was sup...

Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whethe...

The LUF International Study Fund (LISF) will make changes to its allocation process following an investigation into diversity in its grants policy. Th...

Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in its Digital Collections. This opens ...

Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic i...

Sometimes student life merges rather smoothly into a working adult life. This is the case for Boris Kowalski. At International Studies, he chose Russi...

Aisha Hassan came to the Netherlands when she was two months old. Her mother had fled Somalia and made a new home here. Aisha doesn't remember much ab...

Alumna Louwien Eising is headteacher of Carmel College in Emmen. How have things been during the pandemic? And how has her degree in Education and Chi...

Elsevier Weekblad has chosen 30 Dutch talents under the age of 30. They include Leiden alumni Mátyás Bittenbinder (biology), Hielke Onnink, (Public Se...

When Cultural Anthropology alumna Monique Tekstra-van Lochem was having children and she wanted to teach them more about diverse cultures, she was una...

While studying Indonesian languages and cultures, Rennie Roos started a company. Today he has been working in Indonesia for more than eight years. Whe...