Alumni Newsletter March 2026
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March 2026

What do you do when your Master’s degree isn’t recognised abroad?

Lisette Bedijn completed her Master’s in Health Psychology in 2012 and then planned to start working as a psychologist in Canada. Once she arrived, she discovered that her degree wasn’t recognised. It was an unexpected turn, but also a valuable lesson: a career doesn’t have to be perfectly mapped out to lead you to the right place.

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University and children’s charity join forces for equal opportunities in the Caribbean

The Leiden University Fund (LUF) has spent the past year working on a special partnership centred on an ambitious project in the Dutch Caribbean. Together with the Kinderpostzegels children’s charity, CEDE ARUBA and Leiden University researchers, the LUF applied for National Postcode Lottery funding.

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► Interdisciplinary archaeological investigation uncovers gender- and age-selective violence 2,800 years ago

► Exhibition Archaeo‑Sexism on display throughout March in Van Steenis

► From holograms to case file analysis: students investigate real cold cases

► Why the Netherlands should repatriate foreign terrorist fighters and their families

► Strong muscles start in the gut

► LUMC receives tens of millions for research into new stem cell–based treatments

► Leiden research that matters: how science is shaping European pesticide policy

► A world first at the microscopic scale: metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own

► Knowing the ocean means living with uncertainty

► Scholars for Scholars: a fund for at-risk academics

► Master's students organise graduate conference ‘Who is Asian?’

► ‘I am curious to see what considerations authors make with regard to censorship in China.’

Events

► Pioneers in Migration History
     27 March | Conference - Symposium | Leiden

► Archaeology in the Dealer’s Archive

     7 April | Lecture | Leiden

► A multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of bone tumours

     7 April | Boerhaave Nascholing | Leiden

► Humans as a Legal Technology
     9 April | Lecture | Leiden

► European Union Seminar

     10 April | Lecture | The Hague

► Celebrating 40 Years of the Latin American Studies Program at Leiden

     10 April | Lustrum | Leiden

► Statistical Aspects of Clinical Trials
     13 April | Boerhaave Nascholing | Leiden

► SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Derya Soydaner

     13 April | Lecture | Online

► Can games unlock the quantum future?

     14 April | Lecture | Leiden
► Consumer heterogeneity in internal reference price formation

     15 April | PhD defence | Leiden & online

► Leiden Alumni in Brussel Event

     16 April | Alumni event | Brussel

► Herta Mohr Lecture 2026: Identity and Connectivity at the Oryx District

     17 April | PhD defence | Leiden & online

► Discover the Summer School courses

► 16 April: Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event

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