I very much enjoyed that the master program is so international, and I can still rely on my close friends from the program for academic and statistical advice. The program laid a very solid foundation in terms of the entire empirical cycle, which has benefited my next career steps. After graduation, I spent a year teaching courses in the Psychology program at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), including academic writing and research methods. Next, I pursued a PhD in Social Psychology at the UvA, in which I examined why talking about our emotions with others is so often ineffective – a question close to my heart. This is exactly why I love being a researcher in our field: It allows you to study questions that are relevant to our everyday lives. After a three-year post doc at the University of Münster, Germany, I am now back in the Netherlands, working as an assistant professor at the department of Social Health and Organisational Psychology in Utrecht, still trying to solve the riddle of how to best regulate our emotions.
Lisanne Pauw
The research master program immediately attracted my attention because of its research focus on Social Psychology. After finishing my bachelor’s degree in Social Psychology, I was motivated to dive even deeper into these topics, and how better to do this than with a small cohort and a group of dedicated and international teachers and professors
