Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.

The Leiden Inclusion Blog is a forum to share experiences and discuss current issues related to diversity and inclusion at Leiden University. Members of Leiden University are welcome to share news, activities, and stories with the wider University community. Everyone can to contribute a blog, or suggest…

The Leiden Islam Blog offers a platform for scholars and publicists from Leiden and beyond to share their research and opinions with a broad audience.

Three years ago, on 13 October 2017, the Leiden Medievalists Blog was established. In their blogs, Leiden researchers from all disciplines talk about the Middle Ages in a fun and interesting way. Editors Jip Barreveld, Marlisa den Hartog and Thijs Porck talk about the blog and why the Middle Ages are…

Interested in studying Colonial and Global History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

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

Interested in studying Ancient History at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

Interested in studying Linguistics at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

The curators and conservator share fascinating stories about physical objects from the Special Collections through regular blog posts.

Interested in studying Modern Languages at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

Interested in studying International Relations at Leiden University? Find out what our alumni said about this master's programme.

Are you passionate about writing and sustainability? Do you feel like sharing your talent with the rest of the university? This is your chance!

The Hague Diplomacy Blog intends to stimulate debate among academics and policy makers on the diplomatic aspect of international politics. The blog is edited by Ilan Manor.

In this special one-off video series produced during the corona crisis, researchers in LUCAS who work on the Classical world take time to discuss ancient reactions to disease. Do they strike a chord with us? Or is there quite a difference to how we in the modern world are responding in our situation?…

How new media shape the communication strategies of the PRC’s official news agency Xinhua?

To what extent can contingent, formative feedback in lectures, facilitated by web-based ICT, increase students’ self-efficacy and (academic, behavioral, and cognitive) engagement? And how are self-efficacy and engagement influencing students’ performance and course evaluations?

Yuxi Nie defended her thesis on 15 October 2019.

Of all the mass in our Universe, 80% is thought to consist of a hypothetical and invisible substance called dark matter (DM).

This dissertation is a comprehensive description of the Jiăomùzú dialects. These dialects belong to the Tibetan-Birmese language of the rGyalrong spoken in the province Sìchuā, China.

The Leiden Faculty of Archaeology has recently launched its own research blog. In the Leiden Archaeology Blog, our researchers share their activities with peers and the general public.

On 29 January 2019, Robbert van Eijk defended his thesis 'Web Privacy Measurement in Real-Time Bidding Systems, A Graph- Based Approach to RTB system classification'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. H.J. van den Herik.

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) has recently launched its own blog: the Leiden Language Blog. With this blog, the institute wants to offer a platform for its researchers to present their research to a general audience.

On Wednesday March 23rd, the official LUCAS-blog kick-off took place. On the blog, LUCAS-affiliated PhDs share interesting findings from their research and other relevant news.

Is Russia shooting itself in the foot by stopping the import of food from the West? How dead is socialist-realism in contemporary Russian literature? Is president Putin really that popular? What is the influence of indigenous Siberian languages on Russian and … Dutch? These and similar intriguing questions…

Gendered dynamics and assumptions are prevalent throughout the field of cybersecurity.

Welcome to the newly launched The Hague Diplomacy Blog! It is our aim to publish 10 blogs per year and we are very pleased that Ilan Manor has now joined our online team as HJD Blog Editor. We will solicit blogs and we also invite authors to make their own pitch, addressing new themes and perspectives,…

Follow the setting up of the Asian Library, a new center of expertise at Leiden University.

The Leiden Law Blog has been completely renewed. It is now more interactive and blogs can be more easily shared.

The Leiden Law Blog is celebrating its first anniversary. The blog attracts many visitors and scores well in Google. Tips for bloggers: link to previous blogs, post them on social media and respond to comments.

The Leiden University Libraries is proud to announce its new Leiden Special Collections Blog. Curators, guests and fellows of the Scaliger Institute will be writing on the latest acquisitions, valuable discoveries, special items, exhibitions and many other topics of interest. Our new blog draws on the…

Esther Kentin wrote a blog for the Leiden Law Blog about the EU Plastics Strategy: ‘Recycling as panacea for plastic pollution: the EU Plastics Strategy.’

Niek Strohmaier, PhD Candidate in the field of Empirical Legal Studies and associated with the department of Business Studies has written an article for the Leiden Law Blog.

Stay in touch with the recent developments at the faculty!

Leiden Madtrics: metrics and matter that matters is officially live today! The blog is launched to invite the community to contribute on topics that pertain to the research landscape, and any topics related to social studies of science, technology and innovation.

A year ago, we looked back at a wonderful 4th international PUPOL conference in Wellington, New Zealand. The conference theme “Collaborative Leadership for a Sustainable Future” could not have been more suitable - unbelievable how our environment has changed in a short time as a result of COVID-19 and…

Mirjam de Bruijn and camerman Sjoerd Sijsma have been travelling through Chad and Cameroon. The Arab spring hasn't arrived there yet, but the effects of internet and mobile telephony show in everyday life. Mirjam and Sjoerd look for counter voices: young people who try to change these countries in their…

More than eighty students of the Honours College track Science & Society completed their thematic courses. Instead of filling out an exam, they presented a documentary or blog series. These new forms of assessments offered a new perspective on topics like homelessness and the use of mobile phones.

The new blog Afro-Asian Visions showcases new and ongoing research on Afro-Asian interactions through networks of artists, intellectuals, technical experts, and activists. It is designed as an online magazine.

Mariana Gkliati published recently a blog on the latest proposal of the European Commission on a new European Border and Coast Guard Regulation, entitled

The Hague Diplomacy Blog is the new monthly blog of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy (HJD), the ISGA-based research journal for the study of diplomacy.

Mirjam de Bruijn's VICI project Connecting in Times of Duress held its final conference in N'Djamena, Chad, from 23 to 29 October.

Open Access means shared responsibility for research programs. An interview with Prof. Huub de Groot for the Leiden Open Access Blog in the scope of the International Open Access Week.

The Middle Ages are becoming increasingly more popular: just look at the popularity of such ‘medievalist’ TV series as Game of Thrones and Vikings, and let’s not forget popular re-enactments of medieval battles. Leiden University is home to many specialists of this fascinating period and this new blog…

Three students of the Master programme in European Law have published a blog post on the Leiden Law Blog.

Erik Danen is looking at how to inhibit tumours that do not respond well to medicine – and he is making some headway. The Professor of Cancer Drug Target Discovery studies the interaction between tumour cells and their surroundings. Inaugural lecture on Friday 10 May.

Recent study led at the Leiden Observatory has observed Orion with unprecedented detail. New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments in the Orion Nebula. These features appear red-hot…

LAPP students Emily den Boer and Louise Floris, together with Esther Kentin, wrote about the proposal for a plastic bottle deposit return system that has been discussed in the Dutch Parliament in April 2019.