Our communication strategy emphasises the achievements of Leiden University researchers and students and supports our mission and core values.

The Department of Strategy and Academic Affairs is responsible for strategy and policy advice in the areas of education and research.

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.

Determine how you keep track of the final version and intermediate versions.

If the University is involved in a crisis or calamity, a crisis management team will be formed. For small incidents, every building has its own Emergency Response Coordinator.

The Archive Records Act and Archive Decision regulate the storage of information in documents (digital and analogue), information systems and websites.

The SOLO Information Management department offers assistance in all kinds of matters concerning privacy, information and IT.

Create an inventory of all the people/roles (potentially) involved in the research project, including their roles and responsibilities (concerning the research data), as well as how they relate to the university.

Information managers are responsible for contributing to and implementing ICT policy in education, research and operational management.

The Archive management department has developed a number of manuals for the archive management of the University’s expertise centres and faculties. These manuals offer practical support for your archive management.

The University Real Estate Directorate is responsible for managing and maintaining University buildings. If you wish to report a failure in a building or equipment, please contact your service desk.

Personal development

The lab manager of the SSH labs coordinates the day-to-day running of the labs. Researchers can contact her/him with questions about the planning and staffing of the labs, the use of equipment and applicable rules and protocols. This applies to both the SSH labs in the Sylvius building and the SSH labs…

Firstly, Data Management Plan (DMP) is after all a plan, so you must carry it out!

The Leiden University Real Estate Directorate is responsible for regular building and renovation projects. In addition, the Directorate manages vacant University buildings.

Career development, Leadership

Research, Working effectively

You can activate and manage your account via Account Services. To make the best use of Account Services, it is important that you set your account properly the first time you use it.

Management, Research, Working effectively

Leiden University offers housing facilities for international PhD's and other visiting academic staff. Read about the application process for university housing. If you need tenants for your apartment or family house in Leiden and its surrounding area, we will gladly help you rent it to our international…

Doing research in archaeology is more than just gathering data and publishing a paper. Nowadays, there is a growing trend in producing well-defined and responsible data management plans. They help to navigate the process and result in good data management practices which in return benefit the researchers…

As a PhD candidate, you work with data. To keep (personal) data as secure as possible, the university has established an information security policy.

Didactics, Career development

Working effectively

Leiden University has policies in place regarding travel restrictions for students and staff within the context of their studies, work or research. The basis of these restrictions are the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs travel advisories.

Leiden University Scholarly Publications is a database of publications by academics from and institutions affiliated to Leiden University. Researchers and PhD candidates use LUCRIS Publication Management (PM) to add publications (except for doctoral theses) to the Repository. Wherever possible, publications…

Lecture, European Union Seminar

What is the mission of our Faculty? How do we view diversity and inclusion? And how do we think about the growth of our Faculty in the broadest sense of the word? These themes were the focus of the first brainstorming session for the new faculty strategy. Some 65 staff and students from all levels of…