Education and Child Studies (research) Leiden University

Overview

Graduates are able to design, conduct and evaluate applied scientific research, and in doing this can make the link between (clinical) practice and science.

The Education and Child Studies (research) MSc programme from Leiden University is designed in such a way that it can explicitly serve as preparatory training for a PhD position. The programme also offers the opportunity to specialise in the field of social work and youth care, which meets society’s need for academics who are trained in evidence based clinical assessment and treatment for children and families with psychological problems

The research master is a small scale programme, with an average of fifteen students each year. This guarantees intensive interaction between students and staff.

Career prospects

• Where do our master’s graduates continue their careers? More than a third of them obtain a PhD position, while a quarter of them work as lecturers and/or researchers in higher education. About 30% are appointed as educationalists or remedial educationalists in positions where they apply their acquired scientific knowledge and analytical skills in (clinical) practice, in the area of either prevention or intervention.
• As researcher in the field of Education and Child Studies , you can contribute to the scientific knowledge of the neurocognitive and biological correlates of emotions, learning and behaviour, both in non clinical parents and children and in case of problematic development.