Graduate program  

Master degree Developmental Psychology

The Developmental Psychology group provides a one year Master degree, more information can be obtained from the Graduate School of Psychology.

Research Master in Psychology

The Developmental Psychology Group participates in the research oriented two year Master degree in Psychology. The research master’s program is firmly embedded in the experimental approach to psychology that characterizes the psychology program at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Specialized courses are taught in informal, highly interactive small groups settings. In addition to content-related courses covering all areas in psychology, the program offers a series of advanced courses on research methods and statistics, programming and computer skills, and writing and presentation skills.

Core in the research master’s programme are two separate research projects (Thesis #1 and Thesis #2). Potentially, papers based on these research projects should qualify for publication in international academic journals.

PhD program

The vast majority of the research group consists of PhD students and other non-tenured researchers (around 75%) who are supported mostly by NWO and KNAW. This creates an informal research atmosphere with ample opportunity for horizontal and bottom-up communication. The interaction between PhD students and postdocs is encouraged actively which results in considerable cross-fertilization between the two themes of the program. Although PhD students are recruited on the basis of a research project submitted to NWO or one of the research schools (IOPS or EPOS), students are encouraged actively to make an independent contribution, especially during the final stages of the project. PhD students and their supervisors prepare a training program at the start of the PhD project, which includes taking courses offered by IOPS and/or EPOS. The progress made by PhD students and postdocs is monitored by their supervisor(s) and, for PhD students, progress reports are being evaluated yearly by the research schools.

More information can be found at the links below.