Overview

On this Health Psychology degree offered by Erasmus University Rotterdam you will explore how psychological insights, evidence-based methods, and user-centered design approaches are applied to create innovative solutions that address societal needs, tackle psychological problems, promote healthy behaviours, and prevent unhealthy ones.

Is this the right programme for you?

• This programme is unique as it combines state-of-the-art theoretical and methodological knowledge on health psychology and behaviour change with practical expertise on how to design, implement and evaluate behaviour change interventions in complex, real-life contexts.

• Active education, where you work in groups to solve real-life behaviour change challenges by designing interventions in a multidisciplinary context.

• Attention to developing professional skills (e.g., personal leadership, teamwork, project management).

Career opportunities after graduation

• After graduating, you can help organisations understand and change health-related behaviour. You can work, for example, as a behaviour change specialist, health promotion consultant, or policy maker/advisor in public health services, healthcare, and public or private organisations (e.g., governmental institutions, NGOs, consultancy firms, scientific associations). 

• You can also bring your expertise to digital health and technology, for example as a digital intervention designer, project manager or UX researcher in eHealth companies, start-ups or other tech-driven organisations. If you are interested in research, you can continue as a research scientist in academic institutions or independent research organisations.