As robotics advances in the field of emergency response, firefighting robots – or 'firebots' – offer promising improvements in safety and operational ...

In the second-year course Fieldwork NL, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology students conduct their own full-scale anthropological research...

Famine, bombing of civilians and the almost complete destruction of Gaza. The world looks on at an unfolding humanitarian disaster. Why have our inter...

You win the Leiden Teaching Prize and suddenly all eyes are on you. Three past recipients reflect on how this student-awarded prize has changed how th...

Andreas Müller of the University of Basel (Switzerland) and Werner Schroeder of the University of Innsbruck (Austria) together organised a “three coun...

The dramatic geopolitical changes of the last few years and other crises have led the EU to reconsider the function and role of its internal market. I...

Industrial sites are built for safety, but are they prepared for security breaches? As concerns grow over threats to national security, these sites ar...

A short video on the inclusion of migrants can reduce prejudice for at least three months, social psychologist Feiteng Long found in his PhD research....

Vasiliki Kosta spoke at the conference ‘The role of civil society in the protection of the rule of law’ organised by the Ministry of Justice of the Re...

A team of three students affiliated with Leiden University is shedding new light on the lives, diets, health, and mobility of individuals buried at th...

Thanks to a €4.8 million grant from the Dutch Research Council, a consortium that includes four physicists from Leiden University will develop a natio...

A new study reveals how ancient Chinese farmers managed soil fertility and water resources over thousands of years. By analyzing carbon and nitrogen s...

What does it feel like to become a citizen in a new country? For her PhD research, Hannah Bliersbach immersed herself in the world of immigration. She...

Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies, and Professor Clare McGlynn of Durham University have co-...

As of 1 May 2025 Dr Vasiliki Kosta has been appointed as a member of the Committee for the Freedom of Scientific Pursuit (Commissie voor Vrijheid van ...