Leiden University

As with Rutte III, six cabinet ministers have a degree from Leiden, which means that the University is once again a key supplier to the cabinet. Prime Minister Marke Rutte studied History in Leiden. And alumnus Wopke Hoekstra (CDA) is…

Gert Oostindie (1955) became head of the department of Caribbean Studies at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW) in 1983, and was appointed director of the institute in 2000. He has also…

Classical Antiquity has long been considered the cradle of our civilisation. The ancient Greeks and Romans are said to have been so exceptionally gifted that they were the pioneers of our Western culture. Archaeologist Miguel John…

Dikes and locks, Schiphol, the port of Rotterdam, hospitals, the road traffic network, the power grid – in the Netherlands, a lot of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet. It is certainly convenient and efficient to…

Hunter-gathers caused ecosystems to change 125,000 years ago. These are the findings of an interdisciplinary study by archaeologists from Leiden University in collaboration with other researchers. Neanderthals used fire to keep the…

In Bronze Age Europe many bronze objects such as axes, swords and jewels were deliberately left at specific spots in the landscape. PhD research by Leiden archaeologist Marieke Visser shows that these practices were expressions of…

Women’s football is steadily gaining attention. It’s as though the sport is becoming emancipated. And yet in conversations with professional female footballers philosopher Nathanja van den Heuvel discovered that a male culture still…

On Tuesday a few dozen students and staff from Leiden University protested on the square in front of the Lipsius building against the classroom scanners that have been installed in buildings and lecture halls. They are demanding that the…

For the analysis the researchers used the Spolisbus data file from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). This contains data about people’s jobs based on what the Employee Insurance Agency (UWV) terms its Polisadministratie (data on the wages,…

‘People, professionals and society as a whole are increasingly confronted with it: artificial intelligence in or around health and healthcare. Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ These are the…