The terms of employment of university employees are set out in the CAO of Dutch Universities.

The collections of the NINO have undergone a transition period over the past two years. Following the relocation of the NINO to the Herta Mohr Building in 2024, all NINO collections – including the clay tablets and objects as well as the paper archive – were integrated into the Special Collections of…

The terms of employment of university employees are set out in the CAO of Dutch Universities.

Gabriel Spautz Vieira is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…

This academic year will see many changes to how examinations are organised. The Department of Education is working hard to introduce these changes as smoothly as possible. Check out the LTC Hub for all updates and what these mean for exam procedures. To explain these changes in more…

Collaboration with the fossil fuel industry is the subject of debate. Leiden University is therefore introducing a new Procedure for Collaboration with the Fossil Fuel Industry on 1 March. This standard procedure will be used to evaluate new research collaborations with the fossil fuel industry.…

Anneke Monsma started as an external PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute of Tax Law and Economics, Department of Tax Law, in August 2024. Her supervisors are Professor Allard Lubbers and Dr Esther Huiskers-Stoop. She conducts research into alternative ways of settlement procedures by the municipal…

Since April 2022, Floor has been affiliated with the Institute of Private Law as a Ph.D. candidate.

The collection guides of archives and collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) have been made available via the portal Collection Guides. This has greatly improved the findability, visibility and ease of use of these collection finding aids.

The annual application round for LUF project grants will now be in two stages. Researchers begin with a short pre-application and if their proposal is selected, they will be invited to submit a full application. Pre-applications for 2026 can be submitted from 1 September to 15 October. The definitive…

In 2024, when ScienceGuide threatened to disappear “due to a lack of financial perspective”, the UBL took out a collective subscription to this publication for the entire university community, partly at the request of university employees. In 2024, such a collective annual subscription cost €4,905…

Why and how do people collect things? Why does a museum display one object and not another? These questions are at the heart of the interdisciplinary research programme Museums, Collections and Society. The programme is holding a conference for scholars and the general public on 5 and 6 July.

Bryan Verheul has been a PhD Fellow at the Institute of Private Law since 1 July 2024.

Every year, the DIKTI-Leiden Fellowship programme offers three senior (postdoc) researchers affiliated with a state or private university in Indonesia the opportunity to conduct three months of research in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections.

The Faculty of Science (FWN) will continue to use its own temporary knowledge security procedure for a longer period. The insights and experience gained will contribute to the further development of the university-wide procedure. Initially, the plan was for the faculty to transition to the university…

Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’

What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.

The Dutch asylum application centre in Ter Apel is overburdened, an issue that is currently a prominent feature in the Dutch media. In podcast De Verbranders, PhD students Neske Baerwaldt and Wiebe Ruijtenberg engage in dialogue, and use different angles to examine themes related to migration, borders…

In early 2026, the Ethics Committee aims to launch a new registration procedure that will allow researchers with a low ethical risk to be assessed more quickly. To assess this risk, the committee will be testing a list of nine screening questions in the coming months. Feedback is welcome.

On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam around the shared research theme Collecting Global Heritage. Some 50 researchers, students and collection managers came together to share knowledge,…

Castles, monasteries and bridges, but also city profiles, history prints and water management works. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) manages one of the most important collections of topographical images in the Netherlands. The collection, bequested to UBL by Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872)…

Marloes van Noorloos is appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at Leiden University from 1 February 2025.

A team of auditors from the Nederlands-Vlaamse Accreditatie Organisatie (NVAO) will visit us next January. Their focus will be on our quality assurance system and how our quality assurance cycles cover our educational ambition and strategy. A positive audit outcome will ensure our compliance…

Elizabeth Rodríguez Estrada is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Almost 4400 anatomical drawings from the collections of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) are now available through Europeana. The collection shows medical art on paper from the early eighteenth century to the present day. Most of the drawings were created in or around the Leiden University Medical…

If you are unable to come to work due to sickness, check out how to report sick and how the University guides its employees on sick leave. Make sure to take a look at the brochures: Sickness leave: what you need to know and do (for staff) Sickness leave: take action! (for supervisors and management…

Help us develop and expand the recently established Leiden Chinese Queer Collection (LCQC, 莱顿华语酷儿文献收藏) at Leiden University Libraries (UBL).

All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image of native populations in the European mind. An ERC Starting Grant allows Dr Martin Berger to look at the bigger picture, contextualizing individual collections…

What does a 19th-century exhibition of traditional utensils from the province of Zeeland tell us about the current rise of populism? A lot, Ad Maas will say in his inaugural lecture.

Would you like to do collection-oriented research, but do not have sufficient resources? Every year, the Museums, Collections and Society (MCS) research group makes several research scholarships available for this purpose. Researchers Elizabeth den Hartog and Marika Keblusek previously received an MCS…

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Archaeology which naturally leads to questions about its past. Part of the answer might be hidden in the archival photo negatives that paint a lively portrait of archaeological research taking place more than half a century ago.

A professor from Leiden University, together with a former employee (who is also the professor’s partner), has been guilty of long-term unacceptable and often transgressive behaviour in the form of abuse of power and manipulation. This behaviour led to a culture of fear among staff who were largely…

The map of Suriname, drawn in 1830 and acquired by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) in 2023, has now been made available online via Digital Collections in open access. The map can be viewed and downloaded in high resolution.

With the addition of over 16,500 new catalogue records, the collection of Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797-1872) is now almost entirely searchable online. The private collection of the Leiden map collector laid the foundation for the special collection of maps and atlases of Leiden University.…

The Leiden Leadership Centre (Leiden University), the Centre for Leadership Ethics and Organisation (Queen's University Belfast) and the Journal of Change Management will be organising a symposium and a special issue on multi-level leadership for the collective good. The complexity and dynamics of societal…

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 interviewed dozens of new citizens in Germany and Canada and found that citizenship is, above all, a transactional process.

In May of 2023, an agreement was signed between Leiden PhD candidate Jonathan Ouellet and General Director Onggar Akan of the A. Kh. Margulan Archaeological Institute in Almaty. The aim: a detailed study of the numismatic history of Southern Kazakhstan.

Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…

Franco Donati’s research focuses on the expansion of data availability on the environmental impacts of products and technologies, and on the development of tools and methods for circular economy scenarios analysis. He pursues these research areas by employing software and data development methods, and…