Every faculty has local support for instructors and students that work with Brightspace

As a lecturer, you may require advice or support in recording and distributing lectures and videos. For more information, please contact your coordinator.

Do you want advice with the ICT that supports your lectures? Or do you need help using Brightspace? Your ICT & Education Coordinator is available for all your questions.

This website provides an overview of the organisational structure of Leiden University. Here you can find contact details of secretariats, staff lists by department, co-participation bodies, and regulations.

Humanities, Centre for Linguistics

Humanities, International Studies

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.

Bachelor, Master

Leiden University Press publishes academic books and journals, primarily in the field of humanities and social and behavioural sciences. The press focuses on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, History (Global, Military, Environmental) Archaeology, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Literary Studies,…

If you want to hold a group discussion, a video conference call or make calls online, the information below sets out the possibilities.

The Barrier-Free Studying project embodies Leiden University’s statement of intent on inclusive education, which was issued in 2018.

Do you have questions about data management? Please contact the data stewards:

Ethics committees advise researchers on ethical issues relating to their research. For example, whether the research meets the criteria for ethically responsible conduct. There are a number of ethics committees within Leiden University.

The University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) is proof of the competence for University teaching staff. If you are a lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and professor with an appointment of 0.5 FTE or more and have been working at the University for a year or more, you must earn the UTQ.…

ICT, Human resources

You can get advice and support on the use of audiovisual equipment during lectures and presentations.

Master

Master

Research

Lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor.

For people to reuse your data, the file formats you publish them in must be “open” as well.

Here you will find an overview of all communication departments within the university.

The Development and Alumni Relations department maintains contact with Leiden University alumni to stimulate and strengthen our alumni’s involvement with the University. If you wish to know more about our alumni, or organise an alumni event, do not hesitate to contact us.

Brightspace will fully replace Blackboard in academic year 2020-2021. Following evaluations of students and lecturers’ first impressions of Brightspace, the project team now plans to make this digital learning environment more user-friendly.

Leiden researchers work together with other researchers from across the world. The University has developed a regional policy focused on three specific regions with which we maintain intensive contact through a number of faculties: China, Indonesia and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Your telephony coordinator is authorised to approve a name change or process your application for a new connection or telephone number.

Organisation

Leiden University offers various training programmes and workshops that contribute to student well-being.

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master, Short Course, PhD

Research

You can contact the privacy or security officers with questions about privacy or data security.

The academic freedom core team was established by Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl in the summer of 2022. It comprises five professors from five different faculties: Martine de Vries (LUMC), Frits van der Meer (FGGA), Sense Jan van der Molen (Science), Jannemieke Ouwerkerk (Law) and Herman Paul (Humanities).…

Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure

Bachelor, Master

Bachelor, Master

Many national and international research funders can provide financing for your research project.

Master, PhD

Master

Career development, Communication

Much of Leiden University’s income comes from the government and the tuition fee (first income stream). Each year the Executive Board distributes this income among the faculties and institutes. For the sake of transparency, the University applies the First Income Stream Allocation Model. Alongside being…

The quality of our programmes is monitored continuously. The assessments are conducted both by external experts and by our institutions and programmes. We use these evaluations of education to further improve our programmes.

Collecting personal and sensitive data is not as common an issue in archaeological research as in some other fields such as sociology and political sciences which is often the reason why archaeologists might not be aware that they are handling those types of data.