Research Experiments on Designing Objects with ‘Artistic’ Messages

The newly launched NWO funded research project ‘Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making’ aims to interrogate Critical Making by experimentally applying it to a broad range of artistic practices.

Seven research projects have been honored in the unique researchprogramme Smart Culture - Arts and Culture. The successful research projects have one purpose, which is proving the connection between innovative artistic and cultural practices, scientific and social issues.

The Heritage Sector at a Crossroads: The way of Intersectionality. This project investigates how heritage institutions can achieve inclusion and accessibility within their organization, collection, and exhibition spaces that meets the breadth of demands placed by today’s “critical visitors.” Fifteen…

The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates.

This research explores the question of what contemporary mapmaking practices can reveal about the ever-evolving field of graphic design.

This research explores the question of what contemporary mapmaking practices can reveal about the ever-evolving field of graphic design.

On Monday 13 July, the gift of the artwork Homs by Syrian artist Rabi Koria was officially accepted at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building. The tableau can be viewed in the KOG restaurant.

First Person #1 is an exhibition of two photographic projects by Judith van IJken, photographer, lecturer and PhD candidate at ACPA, Leiden University.

Playing techniques of the Italian 18 th century salterio.

Education for curious and ambitious students who want to get more out of their study!

How to further develop and enrich one's own improvisation and composition skills and techniques, and to develop a framework to continually expand one's own performance repertoire.

Activities of Thalia Hoffman and Basma Hamdy

In February Cultural Anthropologist Federico de Musso went to Northern Italy to visit his family. He was there for three days when COVID-19 cases started to skyrocket. Back in the Netherlands, he put himself into preventive quarantine, just in case he had contracted the disease. It turned out he did…

Artist and painter Marlene Dumas will give the Huizinga Lecture in Pieterskerk on Friday 6 December. In an interview with Elsevier Weekblad, she talks about the preparations, the inspiration that she derives from Pieterskerk and the story that she wants to tell during the lecture.

On these pages you will find information on the research that is being conducted at each of the participating universities.

The research conducted at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research is clustered within the divisions of BioTherapeutics, Drug Discovery & Safety and Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology.

The Institute of Public Administration is one of the largest and oldest institutes of academic research and teaching in the field of public administration in the Netherlands. The Institute combines a solid international academic reputation with a central positioning among the international, national,…

Research at Leiden Law School means research at the highest level. Leiden Law School has eight broad research programmes and one specific ‘profile area’: Interaction between legal systems - which aims to understand the complex interaction between the various levels of jurisdiction and to solve the resulting…

The main focus of our research programme is on adolescence, a key transitional period in human development. The programme puts emphasis on combined experimental behavioural and neural analysis of normative transitions and deviations in adolescent development.

Research is meant to generate knowledge, in a rational and sensible way. Many research methods exist to do this, and creativity is an important factor. Our mission is to explore creative, playful, unexpected, and unconventional forms of academic research.

The research performed by the staff of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden University is presented in the personal webpages of its staff.

We see it as our assignment to explicitly connect practice and science. We accomplish this through Dual PhD research.

The University wants its teaching and research to have the maximum academic, cultural, social and economic impact.

Research is meant to generate knowledge, in a rational and sensible way. Many research methods exist to do this, and creativity is an important factor. Our mission is to explore creative, playful, unexpected, and unconventional forms of academic research.

Leiden University seeks to bring knowledge, academic top talents, and resources from Leiden and China together in mutually beneficial joint research projects that are content-driven, based on existing excellent research.

The research of the Business Administration department focuses on 'Turnarounds and Insolvency Law ", aimed at restructuring and insolvency.

SAILS Researchers Photo taken at the Seminar on 14 October 2019.

The central research clusters of the Institute for Philosophy are "Philosophy of Knowledge: The Universal, the Global and the Local" and "Normativity and its Sources: Agency, Interaction and Conflict in a Globalizing World."

eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies of the Faculty of Law of Leiden University, is a multidisplinary research institute that brings together a unique combination of knowledge and experience in the area of legal, ethical, societal and technological aspects of regulating the internet and…

Central elements in the research activities of all programme group members are: attachment, sensitive caregiving, and prevention and intervention.

As a leading research, consulting, and training center, CWTS is dedicated to increasing our understanding of scientific quality, societal impact, and other related concepts. CWTS studies the conditions and consequences of research evaluation for the generation of new knowledge, and the role of research…

The research is part of the Faculty's research program ‘Coherent Private Law’.

The Modern and Contemporary Cluster is the largest within LUCAS and home to more than 100 staff members and PhD candidates. Hosting a diverse group of young and advanced scholars, it offers an especially fruitful and dynamic environment for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Leiden University seeks to bring knowledge, academic top talents, and resources from Leiden and Latin America and the Caribbean together in mutually beneficial joint research projects that are content-driven, based on existing excellent research. Connecting research and researchers.

The Central Asia Initiative in Leiden was launched by the Leiden research area Asia Modernities and Traditions (AMT) in February 2015. Here, you can find more information about (associated) research projects, researchers and networks.

The department carries out research in all fields of IP law. The research is a part of the faculty research programme Coherent Private Law.

The VVI seeks to advance knowledge of the formation and functioning of legal systems in their social contexts, the impact of these systems on society and vice versa, their effectiveness in governance, and their contribution to development.

SBB research focuses on the complex operational, organisational dynamics of technology-intensive sectors.

How do people develop and how do they learn? How does their environment affect them? How do we ensure that they develop in optimal fashion? And what can we do if problems occur? These are questions that the researchers at the Institute of Education and Child Studies try to answer.

The Institute of Psychology is responsible for innovative and interdisciplinary research and education within psychology and related disciplines. It focuses primarily on three broad areas: health and wellbeing, development and learning, and social, cognitive and economic decision-making. Its research…

The research at ICLON is organized within one research program. The overarching aim of this research program is building a knowledge base for teaching repertoire development and use.

Combining different disciplines, researchers work together to formulate innovative solutions to societal problems.

The members of LUXs develop and validate new methods and algorithms for analysing data, and apply these in a wide range of problems. Their research ranges from multidisciplinary applications to proving mathematical theorems.

Within the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, research is organised in six main research groups:

The Department of Child Law offers organizations consultancy expertise in the field of national and international child law and children's rights.

Research at Leiden Observatory spans the full width of modern astrophysical enquiry. It is based on observation, theory, simulation, and experiment. Two broad clusters characterize the ongoing research. Within each theme, researchers carry out their personal and specialized research programme. The two…

Participation research programs

The Department of Economics concentrates its research on Social Policies, Public Finance and Law and Economics.