The faculty's education and research is executed by five institutes: Centre for Science and Technology Studies Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Education and Child Studies Political Science Psychology

Leiden University College (LUC) The Hague is an honor’s liberal arts and sciences college that builds knowledge for a better world through excellent research-led interdisciplinary teaching on global challenges. LUC, fosters critical, independent, and creative thinking in students, and providing them…

LUC employs external teaching fellows from Leiden University or other universities and academic institutions to teach one or more courses at LUC. The vast majority of the external teaching fellows are active researchers and firmly embedded in the research groups at their home faculty. This contributes…

The Personal Development Centre (PDC) at the Faculty of Social Sciences represents life-long learning put into practice. Our approach is the concrete fulfillment of Leiden Universities’ promise to its students and staff. We assist students and professionals in realizing their full potential connecting…

The Faculty Strategic Plan (FSP) 2022 – 2027, We are Humanities, sets out the faculty's ambitions for the coming years. The wealth of international academic knowledge about languages, cultures and societies worldwide, past and present, makes the Faculty of Humanities unique. The FSP describes how…

Defending the interests of PhDs and postdocs at Leiden University  

Core vision Bachelor's programme

Where your research has led to interesting opportunities which could be further developed into new products or processes, Luris is here to assist with the identification of the potential strategy to follow. And of course to identify external partners to move these ideas forward. In some cases you may…