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December 2025

From Japan Studies to junior school

It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know the country she was studying. Over 20 years later, she is studying again – this time to be a primary school teacher. ‘I wanted to do something with more impact.’

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Cindy Heijdra

‘Insight can help prevent migraine’

Migraine attacks strike suddenly and can seriously limit people’s lives. People with migraine can develop a pounding headache, auras,  severe nausea and even vomiting. More knowledge about lifestyle factors and triggers will help predict and prevent attacks. The aim is personalised treatment.

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More news

► Reconnecting and reminiscing with Leiden alumni in Indonesia

► Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity
► Alex Tutwiler receives Archol grant to reveal hidden stories of child labor
► New history of Leiden presented to the mayor: ‘Always been an incredibly diverse city’

► Work visit to EU Institutions in Brussels: ‘It is okay to be a generalist’

► ‘We all support equal opportunities, but disagree on how to achieve them’
► Untangling the knot of legal protection in education

► Vaccines fall short in the countries that need them most: HypoVax Global aims to close the gap

► ‘Being healthy or unhealthy is not an individual choice, but has to do with the situation you find yourself in.’
► New technique provides insights into the development of diseases such as CAA and Alzheimer's

► Consensus, bias and polarisation: How mathematicians study opinions
► Which algorithm solves which problem? Diederick Vermetten developed methods to find out

► Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?

► Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate community

► LUF grants for historical hormone research and safe, inclusive cities

Events

► Navigating between empires: the discourses on self-determination in and about Hong Kong

6 January | Academy Building & livestream | PhD defence

► Brand new translation, same old story: the perpetuation of female and racial stereotypes in (re)translation

14 January | Academy Building & livestream | PhD defence

► Using R for Data Analysis

15 January | LUMC | Boerhaave Nascholing

► Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
20 January | Academy Building & livestream | PhD defence

► Towards a universal law governing the international civil service?
28 January | Academy Building & livestream | PhD defence

► Philosophy to the rescue
29 January | Rijksmuseum Boerhaave | Lorentz Lecture

► Becoming an inclusive university
29 January | The Hague | Conference | D&I Event

► Alumni Career Event Methodology and Statistics Psychology
10 February | Faculty Social and Behavioural Sciences | Alumni event

► Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event 2026
16 April | The Louise, Brussels | Alumni event

Universiteit Leiden Academy Week

► Sign up now: Universiteit Leiden Academy Week February 2026 (Dutch webinars)

► Sign up now: Diesfestival for alumni 2026 (Dutch)

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