In the media
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Leiden University to continue membership of The Conversation 09 December 2024
Looking to share your academic results or insights with a global audience? Leiden University is a ‘contributing member’ of the international journalis...
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ISGA researchers featured in international media 05 November 2024
Terrorism, crisis, violence, intelligence, diplomacy, war and peace are topics that are broadly covered in ISGA's research activities. Regularly, ISGA...
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Racist riots in the UK: which root causes need to be addressed? 23 August 2024
The United Kingdom (UK) has recently been facing racist violence outbreaks. Tahir Abbas, Professor of Radicalisation Studies, discusses this in an art...
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How Finland managed to halve its suicide rate 18 March 2024
Finland reduced its suicide rate from 30 deaths per 100,000 citizens. Marieke Liem and Leah Prencipe, Professor of Violence and Interventions and Post...
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What does the current international security environment look like? 22 December 2023
Eva Michaels, Assistant Professor Intelligence and Security, talks about the current international security environment, including intelligence issues...
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What does Islamist rule look like? 13 June 2023
Joana Cook, Assistant Professor of Terrorism and Political Violence, talks about Islamist parties increasingly taking power in the last four decades ...
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ROBUST AI programme receives 25 million euros from Dutch Research Council 10 January 2023
The ROBUST consortium, which is the initiative of the Innovation Center for Artificial intelligence (ICAI), has received 25 million euros from the Dut...
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Two Leiden academics nominated for Person of the Year 05 January 2023
Leiden academics Remco Breuker and Auke-Florian Hiemstra stand to win the title of Person of the Year. According to the Leidsch Dagblad newspaper, the...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health 20 December 2022
Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Being a guest teacher during master: how do BrainTrain students experience high-school visits? 19 December 2022
The outreach and engagement platform BrainTrain consists of five enthusiastic students of the masters programme Forensic Family Science. As part of th...
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Ellen de Bruijn about the social context of making mistakes and learning from it 15 December 2022
During the event 'Fout?' by De Jonge Akademie, Ellen de Bruijn held a lecture about the social context of making mistakes and the psychological elemen...
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Anne-Laura van Harmelen about resilience research and public engagement on Dutch radio programme Sleutelstad 14 December 2022
In a one-hour interview on Dutch radio programme Sleutelstad, Anne-Laura van Harmelen talks about her research into the role friendships in adolescent...
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Simon Willmetts in the Leiden Security and Global Affairs podcast about the CIA 13 December 2022
Simon Willmetts, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, walks listeners through the founding of the Agency, its successe...
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Marieke Liem explains that the typical Hollywood serial killer image is not scienfically valid 16 November 2022
In Belgium Radio 1, Marieke Liem (professor of Violence and Interventions) gives a scientific perspective on serial killers and explains the typical H...
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Anne-laura van Harmelen about the term resilience and its 'Yes! No!' game 16 November 2022
In Dutch magazine De Psycholoog, Anne-Laura van Harmelen talks about the use of the term resilience and argues that resilience is concept that needs f...