In the context of growing political polarisation, the spread of misinformation, and increases in incivility and intolerance, how can Twitter assess an...

Political scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) has been appointed as an academic advisor to the Social Science One research commission. She w...

Leiden University researchers Gisela Hirschmann (Political Science) and Niels van Doesum (Psychology) have been awarded a LUF/Gratama grant for their ...

Political philosopher Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) has been awarded a Vidi grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NW...

Fransje Molenaar, who defended her dissertation at the Institute of Political Science (Leiden University) in September 2017, has been awarded the Jaar...

Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...

Stress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...

In his new book 'The Politics of Borders', Leiden political scientist Matthew Longo redefines the concept of a ‘border’.

From 7 to 8 June 2018 Leiden will host the annual 'Politicologenetmaal'. Political scientists active in The Netherlands and Belgium will convene in an...

Why are the local parties so popular? Researchers at Leiden University gave their reaction the day after the elections of 21 March.

During this award ceremony for alumni op Saturday, 10 February 2018, Vincent Bakker was awarded second prize in Leiden University’s 2018 Thesis Award....

Many Western defence strategies concentrate on maintaining the status quo. Actively promoting universal values can also be a good strategy for resilie...

Vincent Bakker, PhD Candidate at the Department of Economics, was awarded the Research Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 of the Faculty of Social and Behavio...

Philosophical pragmatism has found more and more applications. But thus far it has not been applied to political crisis management. Political scientis...

Preventing terrorism before it happens seems like an idea no one would disagree to. But is it possible? How do counter-radicalisation policies look li...