The Leiden Institute of Education and Child Studies aims to conduct high-quality research that addresses major social issues. This inspires its BSc, MSc and PhD programmes.

Before you enroll in one of our courses, it is important to determine your current level of proficiency.

A novel in vivo model system for studies on glucocorticoid resistance

ICLON offers support on all aspects of accreditation and quality assurance.

The Bachelor's programme in English Language and Culture considers it important that you make a conscious and informed decision about your studies. Therefore, we created the Online Matching Module which is designed to help you reach and consolidate this decision.

The Bachelor's programme in Philosophy: Global and Comparative Perspectives considers it important that you make a conscious and informed decision about your studies. Therefore, we created the Online Matching Module which is designed to help you reach and consolidate this decision.

The Bachelor's programme in Linguistics considers it important that you make a conscious and informed decision about your studies. Therefore, we created the Online Matching Module which is designed to help you reach and consolidate this decision.

The Bachelor's programme in Arts, Media and Society considers it important that you make a conscious and informed decision about your studies. Therefore, we created the Online Matching Module which is designed to help you reach and consolidate this decision.

The WIIS-NL blog provides articles on gendered international security issues taking a multi-disciplinary approach which includes but is not limited to WIIS focus areas. This blog aims to reach a broad audience of academics, practitioners, students, and interested members of the general public.

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ELS@Leiden organises lab meetings and other activities throughout the year. Find out what ELS can do for you in helping you develop your empirical-legal research skills.

Throughout your 3-year Security Studies programme you explore the effects of events (such as war or natural disaster), understand them via relevant academic perspectives, and actively design strategies and solutions to resulting security challenges.

In the programme International Criminal Law, you will gain understanding of the systemic environment surrounding international criminal law. Read more

Perception of material culture, design and digital knowledge applications

This study examines recovery planning committees across Japan's Tohoku region.

The development process of any software has become extremely important not just in the IT industry, but in almost every business or domain of research.

What is the relationship between outcomes of dynamic testing and cognitive flexibility in young children?

Interested in studying Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

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MT3 is a globally unique programme led by professors and reference authors that cover the most up-to-date knowledge possible in the area of Transfusion Medicine and Cellular and Tissue Therapy. It provides access to high quality knowledge and skills via a completely online system.

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After receiving positive feedback from peers, socially anxious young people feel as confident about themselves as their non-anxious counterparts. 'These young people are then able to handle new social situations more confidently,’ says Leiden psychologist Anne Miers. Her research is published in the…

Martijn Bezemer has been appointed as professor in “Ecology of plant-microbe-insect interactions” within the Faculty of Science at the Institute of Biology from the 1st of September 2016. His main research focus is on aboveground-belowground interactions.

Does knowledge of environmental performance change farmer's behaviour?

Plants, algae and cyanobacteria have the amazing capacity to perform delicate photophysical and photochemical processes of light capture, excitation transfer, charge separation and catalysis in fluctuating living environments. As a consequence, photosynthetic proteins and membranes form dynamic architectures.…

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For all problems related to presenting your research in English, the Graduate School provides help in the form of an in-house Academic English Lecturer.

In European Politics and Society you will be studying an academic field that is an entirely new research area. You will be at the forefront of a new approach to understand how the fields of European politics, contemporary history, culture, economy, international relations and policy making are linke…

The Leiden Political Economy Group (L-PEG) is a multi-disciplinary network of scholars with a research interest in (comparative / global) political economy based at Leiden University. Our members belong to various institutes and faculties across Leiden University, and from other universities across…

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BSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology is a bachelor’s programme with a compulsory matching module.

Peer-mentored cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents with mild intellectual disability and anxiety disorder

These three repors are part of a research project that assesses how military interventions can best prepare the ground for an effective long-term counter-terrorism policy. Three different cases have been studied, and they have each provided the input for the policy relevant recommendations that are…

The D&I Expertise Office is in close contact with various student and staff networks regarding diversity and inclusion.

Uncovering task solving processes in dynamic testing

Developing methodes to understand the evolution of patches in natural ecosystems

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Alumni play an important part in building bridges between the University and society. Leiden University therefore works to maintain and strengthen the links with its graduates and to develop an informed and committed network of alumni.

Which adolescents are more at risk of developing social anxiety disorder later in life?

What is the optimal way to utilise intermediate assessment in improving study behaviour and study success?

Read more about the International Network Open Science & Scholarship Communities in our Vision and Mission statements.

Impressions by Oene de Haan - PhD candidate at Utrecht University

Digital media are everywhere and are therefore a major part of our lives and the lives of our children. The new specialisation in Digital Media in Human Development focuses on the opportunities and challenges of digital media in child rearing and education.

The research group ‘Quantum and Society’ explores the boundary between quantum technology and science communication.

The main goal of the LIACS Masters Programme Committee CS and MT is to assess and provide oversight for the course evaluations from the students. Specifically, we discuss the student evaluations of the courses and decide on comments to be given to the program directors and teachers as well as followup…

Can we predict fluctuations in suicidal ideation in a person’s daily life, from hour to hour?

The Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies research group conducts innovative high-quality research aiming to gain knowledge about deviant developmental trajectories of vulnerable children, adolescents, and families, about how to prevent problematic development and how to intervene when necessary.