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From dispute to dialogue: building bridges with language

With a Master’s degree in Communication and Information Studies: Dialogue, Health and Society, you will demonstrate that you know how to analyse real-life interactions in a theoretically sound way

You will also possess the knowledge of and skills for translating these insights to the health domain and designing, monitoring, and evaluating dialogue practices in this area. Additionally, you will be able to critically reflect on dialogue theory and practice and put them in a broader societal perspective. 

Upon graduation, you will have unique knowledge of how and to what purposes professionals and clients, patients and citizens act in the context of real-life conversations about health, and how to facilitate and support these interactions.

Want to know where former students ended up? Then read the stories of Lisah van Dam and Lieve van Hengel.

What can you do after your Master's degree?

Entering the job market

After you obtained your master's degree in Communication and Information Studies: Dialogue, Health and Society, you can work at health institutes such as the Dutch RIVM, Ministries of Health, pharmaceutical industry, hospitals, hospices, addiction care, heart or cancer foundations, patient organisations, international NGOs and the WHO. There is a great demand for academically trained dialogue or conversation specialists in the health area, in their role of:

consultant
researcher
facilitator
policy maker
mediation expert
patient educator
social media editor
webcare manager
lecturer in higher professional education

Further study towards a PhD

After completing this MA programme, you can continue to do research while pursuing a PhD degree. This could be an extension of your MA thesis or a brand new project on any topic broadly related to language and health.

Where has the programme Dialogue, Health and Society taken us?