Research Master in Linguistics and Communication

Overview

Research Master in Language and Communication offered by Tilburg University in short

You will integrate in one of the research groups in Tilburg or Nijmegen, specializing in your area of interest.

• Profit from over fifteen years of collaboration in the Centre for Language Studies (CLS), a current partnership between the Tilburg School of Humanities and the Radboud Faculty of Arts. CLS is closely linked to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the Baby Research Centre.
• Excellent guidance by scientific tutors at the beginning of the program. They advise you on how to get your individual desired training program and the research facilities you need.

• For Research Master's students Language and Communication of Tilburg University's Graduate School of Humanities, there is a facilities budget available for international conference visits, research projects or to cover traveling costs on the basis of declarations and educational costs to a maximum of €500.

Career prospects

The main focus of this Research Master’s program is on academic training, which makes it ideal for those wishing to embark on a career in academic research. Besides research positions at universities, there are research and management positions which require extensive research skills but not a PhD degree, for example in businesses, at (non-) profit organizations, in the educational sector and at government institutions (e.g., the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science).

Graduates work or start for example as:

• PhD researcher at Tilburg University, Radboud University Nijmegen, VU Amsterdam, University of Antwerp, University of Freiburg and Universität Wien among others.
• Researcher & PhD Candidate at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital
• UX Researcher at Google 
• Senior Researcher Financial Services at Ipsos 
• Researcher at TeamAlert