Project Drempelloos Studeren: Support For Students With Visible And Invisible Disabilities

This year's theme of International Day of People with Disabilities is invisible disabilities. Two students share their experiences of studying with a disability during the Covid-19 pandemic and introduce the project Drempelloos Studeren.

Project Drempelloos Studeren • December 03, 2020

Column of the Diversity Officer: Whatsapp, Community and Social Safety

Online environments have become a dominant place for contact, exchange, and community. They create new opportunities as they can bridge space and distance. But as digital platforms have become central to our community life, what we say and the tone we set also makes and breaks our community.

Dr. Aya Ezawa, Diversity Officer • November 30, 2020

Disability And Academia: A Strange Pair?

Disability is often a non-topic in academia. How can the scientific community unlock the potential of lived experiences of students and staff with disabilities? PhD researchers Anaïs van Ertvelde and Andries Hiskes get into a conversation about experiential knowledge, representation and access.

Eline Pollaert, Anaïs van Ertvelde and Andries Hiskes • October 29, 2020

Covid-19 as an Amplifier of Sexual Violence: What can we do?

University students are particularly vulnerable to multiple forms of sexual violence. Currently, the issues surrounding sexual violence are amplified by the social distancing measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, it is now time to start conversations, reduce stigma, and support survivors.

Klara Wieczorke and Rosanne Schot • July 06, 2020

COVID-19: What Chinese Students Have Gone Through in the COVID-19 Pandemic

In many Asian countries, wearing masks is meant to protect the wearer. However, different understandings of the meanings of masks trigger questions on what exactly they are protecting. How does this perception of something that we all are living through affect the way masked subjects are viewed?

ACSSNL • June 30, 2020

What Does Inclusion Mean to You?

The Leiden Inclusion Blog as a forum to share experiences and discuss current issues related to diversity and inclusion within the university community. Follow us on facebook or instragram, and get in touch to share your story!

Dr. Aya Ezawa, Diversity Officer • June 02, 2020

COVID-19 Has Put Inequalities in Academia Under a Magnifying Glass

The COVID-19 crisis illuminates gendered and racialised aspects of precarity that were steeping in academia. The increased burden of unpaid care work has skewed research output. Casualised staff, many of them international, are expected to withstand the worst of the crisis. What action can we take?

LUDEN • June 02, 2020

Coronavirus: Will Students and Staff with Disabilities Disappear in the (Social) Distance?

It is becoming increasingly clear that the corona virus has never been ‘the great equalizer’. Instead, the pandemic reinforces existing differences and increases the inequitable situation of a number of communities. Amongst them are students and staff with disabilities within our academic community.

Lucia Langerak and Erwin Dijkstra • May 26, 2020

Coronavirus: Why It Is Not A Great Equalizer

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the pandemic is not a social equaliser. Looking at the current situation with an intersectional lens will make clear that minorities and especially black communities face layered difficulties and issues that are not immediately visible.

Afro Student Association • May 26, 2020

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