Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 39,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.
The project is embedded in the Department of Child Development and Education, which offers a range of Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in the field of developmental psychopathology and education, while its research is embedded in the Research Institute of Child Development and Education, and the research priority areas Youth Digitality, Real Emotions, Healthy Future, and Urban Mental Health. In research and education we cooperate closely with societal partners, such as clients, mental health care, schools, correctional institutions, and municipalities.
About the facultyThe social and behavioural sciences play a leading role in addressing the major societal challenges faced by the world, the Netherlands and Amsterdam, now and in the future. To work at the University of Amsterdam is to work in a discerning, independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterized by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.
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