Community & Communication
The community & communication workgroup serves as an umbrella that – in addition to its own activities – works with all three workgroups on the community and communication related aspects of their activities
This group focuses specifically on communicating with the early-career community, developing the YAL bulletin, the organization of inter-faculty events as well as includes the editorial committee of the blog Voices of Young Academics.
Activities and Projects
YAL Newsletter
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Young Inter-faculty lunches
YAL organises faculty lunches for young academics to meet
Being a young academic can be rather solitary. Young academics often do not have their own research group, nor the extensive network that associate professors and professors have. The Young Academy Leiden aims to change just that!
The Young Academy Leiden organises lunch meetings for young and early career academics and researchers at each faculty. The young faculty lunches are designed to create an informal place for young academics to get to know each other, with the additional benefit of facilitating new collaborations and a strengthened network.
For more information, see young faculty lunches.
Blog: Voices of Young Academics
We as Young Academy Leiden are continuously educating ourselves and are listening to the voices coming from our own university, especially the young academics. With this blog, we want to give a platform to young academics at Leiden University and amplify their voices.
The blog looks at various aspects of life as a young academic, with the joys and fulfillment it can bring as well as the challenges. We aim to reach other young academics as well as other scholars at Leiden University and beyond.
If you would like to contribute to our blog Voices of Young Academics, please e-mail us at: youngacademy@bb.leidenuniv.nl (subject line 'Voices of Young Academics'). Contributions can be anonymous if preferred.