Master Education and Child Studies (Research) This research Master’s programme aims to promote the scientific development of young academics so that they can become independent researchers within Education and Child Studies and related disciplines. The curriculum is designed in such a way that it can serve as preparatory training for a PhD position. At the same time, the programme also offers the opportunity to specialise in the field of social work and youth care, thus meeting society’s need for academics who are trained in evidencebased clinical assessment and treatment for children and families with psychological problems. Graduates are also able to design, conduct and evaluate applied scientific research.
Why this Research Master at Leiden University? u The research Master is a small scale programme, with an average of fifteen students each year. This guarantees intensive interaction between students and staff. u You are allocated a supervisor – one of the professors – and a day-to-day mentor. While writing your thesis, you make a contribution to one of our research programmes. u The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is the location of the Ambulatorium, which offers families assistance with all kinds of problems relating to parenting and child development. Research master’s students who do their research internship in the Ambulatorium can, if they wish, obtain the NVO Registratie BasisOrthopedagoog and the NVO Registratie Basisaantekening Diagnostiek and also conduct research in clinical practice.
Suzanne van Ulden, current student “I chose to do this research master because it struck me as the perfect combination between academic research and clinical practice. I believe it is very important to have more insight into both the theoretical background of clinical practice as into how families and professionals work in practice.”
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English 2 year MSc September 1 Apr non-EU/15 May EU February 15 Oct non-EU/15 Nov EU
Course information
Year 1 SEMESTER I
Conducting and evaluating empirical research (5 EC)
SEMESTER II
Recent aissues and advances in Education and Child Studies (5 EC)
Designing research for science and society (5 EC)
Methods and instruments in cognitive and affective neuroscience (5 EC)
Small sample Applied size approaches multivariate data in relational and analysis (spring) intervention (5 EC) designs (5 EC)
Presenting research and academic writing (5 EC)
Profile (10 EC)
Test theory and scale development (5 EC)
Research Master thesis (10 EC)
Year 2 SEMESTER I+II Applied multivariate data analysis (fall) (5 EC)
Profile (15 EC)
Career possibilities u More than a third of our Master’s
graduates obtain a PhD position. u A quarter of Master’s graduates work as
lecturers and/or researchers in Higher Education. u 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. careerzone.universiteitleiden.nl/en
Research colloquia (5 EC)
Internship Research Master (20 EC)
Research Master thesis (15 ec)
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