If you have a question about the University website, or if you wish to post an announcement or report content-related changes, please contact the web editors of your faculty or unit.

Leiden University has concluded an agreement with elipsLife for a collective ANW shortfall insurance. This insurance provides financial security for your partner in the event of your death.

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Constructive alignment is a core principle of educational design. It ensures that you design courses, materials, activities and curricula with which your students can achieve the learning objectives you set out for them.

Curious to find out how you can contribute to a safe working environment? Then keep reading to discover our tips for working securely. They will help you to work more safely in specific situations. This section contains tools and tips to promote safe working habits in specific situations.

Bachelor, Master

If your work allows it, you can work partly from home and partly at the University. How this combination of working from home and at the University will turn out for you depends on your own working activities and situation and those of your team. This means that tailor-made solutions are needed.

Anyone who comes into contact with Leiden University should be able to trust that we will act with integrity. The Code of Conduct on Integrity describes how we can work together to ensure that this is the case, whether in relation to research, interactions with students, purchasing or the use of University…

Career development, Personal development, Working effectively

The University has a standard working week of 38 hours. However, you may diverge from this. You may work two more or two fewer hours per week and thus accrue or use extra hours.

We are all responsible for data protection. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.

Are you looking for a contact person, because you for instance have a question about privacy, or you need a ULCN guest or uSis account? Or do you need a manual or application form? Below you will find more information.

Training

If your work allows it, you can work partly from home and partly from a university location. How exactly this combination looks for you depends on your own work and that of your team.

In the Mediacenter in Wijnhaven, podcasts can be recorded with user-friendly equipment and four microphones. In addition, we offer the option to record low-threshold videos in the same soundproofed space.

Education, Facility, Organisation

If you adopt a child, you are entitled to a maximum of six weeks of paid adoption leave. If you adopt several children at the same time, you are entitled to one period of adoption leave only. If you are a foster carer, you are entitled to six weeks of fostering leave. This is on the provision that the…

All University employees and researchers have a personal profile page on the website. This page will show where you work and how you can be reached.

Would you like to share your academic news with the world? Since 1 January 2024, Leiden University has been a partner of The Conversation, an international not-for-profit news platform that unlocks academic knowledge for a wide audience.

Study information, On Campus Experience

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Applying for, managing and accounting for externally funded research projects is becoming increasingly competitive and complex. Vidatum is a research management tool for grants and research projects that assists researchers and research support staff in meeting the requirements of funders in terms…

The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student’s learning process. It is used to assess how much your students have learned so far and to diagnose which topics or parts need to be addressed more fully. Most importantly, formative assessment helps your students to focus on what’s going well,…

Since we are working from home we are extra vulnerable for cyber attacks and data breaches. Please create a secure online workplace, by executing the following steps.

Bachelor, Master

If you relocate for your work or if the University requires you to move, you may qualify for a relocation allowance or bonus.

PhD, Staff

Brightspace is the online learning environment of Leiden University.

Looking for an easy way to compile, order or view readers online? Then meet ReaderOnline. The instructions below will help you on your way.

PhD, Staff

If you’re unsure where to refer students to for well-being support, this page should help. It provides an overview of the support available at Leiden University.

The information on your profile page is generated by different underlying systems. You can (request to) change or delete it. Please note that it may take some time before the adjustments are shown.

Library, Research

The SENSYN project has found a solution to few public datasets for criminological research: synthetic datasets. Marieke Liem talks about this unique innovation

PhD

Didactics

It goes without saying that recruiting new bachelor’s students is important to our university. Our recruitment efforts are focused both on schools and on the pupils themselves.

Do you want access to your mailbox via your webmail? Do you want to share a single e-mail address with a number of colleagues? Read about the different options for email.

Who better to tell what it is like to study at Leiden University than the students themselves? That’s why we ask students if they would be willing to visit schools to share their experience.

If you have a question about the University website, or if you wish to post an announcement or report content-related changes, please contact the web editors of your faculty or unit.

Do you work from home and are you employed by Leiden University? If so, in addition to your home-working allowance, you are also entitled to an allowance for your internet expenses.

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Education

Library, Research

Lecture, Research Seminar

Your funding needs might change as you advance through your career. Below we detail the opportunities available for every career stage.