885 search results for “diversity” in the Student website
-
Rethinking Urban Renewal and Citizen Engagement: Insights from Turin
Maria Vasile's ethnographic fieldwork in Turin reveals that volunteering and citizen engagement may not empower residents or allow them to shape their cities. Her analysis of urban gardens, food markets, and food aid initiatives calls for a broader perspective on urban peripheral areas and a shift away…
-
University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
-
Student dean Romke Biagioni: ‘I like it when people are different’
Student dean Romke Biagioni is committed to help students have an easygoing and pleasant time during their studies. She assists students with disabilities, looks for solutions to problems such as housing issues and counsels students with social or financial problems. For MSc student Computer Science…
-
Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
-
Network of student well-being officers create connections
It’s an important theme at the University and beyond: student well-being. Even before coronavirus, research showed that loneliness and the pressure to succeed were causing particular problems for students, and these problems have only increased since the pandemic. Work is underway to improve the sit…
-
Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
-
CML talents receive Stans Award 2024
CML grants three Stans Awards each year, known as the best student thesis, best PhD paper and best outreach from the past year. The CML staff nominated students and colleagues and this year’s jury Prof.dr.ing. Jan Willem Erisman and Prof.dr.ir Willie Peijnenburg made the final decision.
-
Mid-term review: An open discussion about strategy for the legal programmes
On Wednesday 19 January 2022, the online mid-term review of the legal programmes took place on the platform Let’s Get Digital. It was an interactive afternoon in which 130 participants openly and critically discussed the educational strategy for the legal programmes and the faculty.
-
Leiden Team Wins Second Place at the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court
Four master's students from Leiden University participated in this year’s edition of the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court, hosted by Antwerp University. Following the verbal rounds held between 21 and 22 March, the team went through to the finals, achieving second place overall.
-
‘Science is international so our faculty should be too’
‘Our faculty is a very international community. And that is something everybody really benefit from,’ says Yun Tian. As the officer internationalisation, she is the bridge between international students and staff, the faculty and universities abroad. ‘Science goes beyond countries and carries no nationality.…
-
Applying for jobs during the coronavirus pandemic: Ancient History alumni share their experiences
Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…
-
Vote for your representatives in the Education Committee Archaeology
Education, Organisation
-
Paul Wouters reappointed as Dean of FSW
Paul Wouters has been reappointed as Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. His second term runs from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2023.
-
Deans celebrate ten years Honours Academy: ‘We are educating people who can make a difference’
The Honours Academy celebrates its tenth anniversary. How did the institute develop over time, and what are aspirations for the future? We speak with the current Dean and a predecessor who was there at the Academy's founding. A conversation about identity, inspiration, and impact ensues. ‘It is about…
-
Gedichten en gedachten: creatief Honours-vak A Taste of Leadership smaakt naar meer
What do you derive your self-esteem from? Not a question you would quickly expect in a course on leadership. Lecturer Michel Don Michaloliákos opted for a unique approach to 'A Taste of Leadership', an Honours course with introspection as its core theme.
-
Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
-
Interest drink Joint Interdisciplinary Project
Study information
-
Career College: Working as a Consultant - Faculty of LUMC / Science
Career and apply for jobs
- Rainbow Lunch
-
Leiden Translation Talk 9 May: Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools
Lecture
-
Structures of Power: US Infrastructure Building in the Circum-Caribbean During the Bad Neighbor Era
Lecture, RIAS-Sciences Po Seminar Series on Modern North American History
-
Relational Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
-
Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
-
Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production
Debate
-
Online mini-symposium 'The effect of the online world on adolescents''
Mini-symposium
-
Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
-
FOOD CITIZENS? Conference 4th FEBRUARY 2022
Conference
-
EUniWell Open Lecture Series: The role of science communication in the medical field
Lecture, Part of Open Lecture Series
-
CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
-
Writing Global History
Conference, Research Colloquium
-
ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
-
African percussion (djembé)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
-
Kick-off Conference Horizon Europe research project TransEuroWorkS: Transforming European Work and Social Protection
Conference
-
Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
-
Accountability in Peacekeeping
Debate
-
Water’s Way: Female Agency and the Artful Legacy of Chinese Imperial Women
Lecture, IIAS/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture
-
CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
-
CADS Research Seminar Listening to the Un-speakable as Decolonial Praxis
Lecture
-
Leiden Anthropological Conference: The Campus with a Future
Conference
-
Video screening and dialogue Neurodiversity Pride Day
Video screening
-
Seminar: Fleeting Commitments or Can the Museum be Decolonised?
Lecture
-
Caribbean Ties. Connected people, then and now
Exhibition
-
Software and System Security Fest
Course
-
Profiling Objects, Finding Identities?
Lecture, Material Culture Talk
-
Roundtable Discussion: Reorienting Islamic Studies in Asia
Debate
-
“Anthropological perspectives on silence and care at the end of life”
Debate, Roundtable Conversation
-
Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion
-
CWTS Scientometrics Summer School (CS3)
Research
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture
-
Mentor Network live: alumni speed dating
Career and apply for jobs