Health Psychology

I have always been passionate about helping those who need it most. With a background in psychology I was confident I could make a difference but not so sure how to do so without being a healthcare worker. I saw this program as an opportunity to learn new ways to make a difference in an increasingly digitized world and to use my expertise to support health care workers, and patients.

Through this programme, I have learned what a huge difference effectively developed e-health technology can make not only to health care workers and patients, but also to individuals who don’t have equal access to health care and especially to those who can benefit from preventative care (everyone!). 
This programme has offered me many new inspirations for my career, as well as valuable real-life project experience, knowledge that can be transferred to various contexts, and fantastic mentors and friends. 

​​​​So far, this programme has been a great experience, even with the changes due to covid! Our class is small, which means we’ve gotten to know each other and the professors well. We were able to have good conversations during the workshops and collaborate on various projects.

Our classes are interesting with many unique guest speakers and case studies. The blocks build on the knowledge from the courses directly before, so you really get the opportunity to use the things you’ve just learned. My favourite class has been the design of digital interventions where we actually got to design an intervention ourselves using our fellow classmates as end users. It was really cool to see an app from a literature review to mockups of the design. 

I chose this master’s programme because I wanted to learn more about improving health in a practical way, and since social interactions and care are becoming increasingly more virtual, to incorporate a digital aspect to those interventions. I also of course wanted to come live in the Netherlands!

Even during corona time, EUR has made great efforts to connect the students to each other and the faculty and really made the best of the situation. Our classes, while virtual, are still collaborative, informative, and relevant. The course content has definitely met my expectations in terms of preparing me for the next step of my career. I hope to work on digital programmes and projects that will improve health for the youth populations.

This master is an awesome programme that’s given me a practical foundation to start working in health psychology!

After I finished my Bachelor of Psychology at Erasmus University, I was not sure what kind of Master I wanted to do until I saw the Master ‘Health Psychology’. It grabbed my interest since this program allowed me to improve my research skills and use my creativity to work on more practical activities at the same time.

Within this programme, classes are small, and you work closely with fellow students and teachers. You practice with real-life problems, research these, and try to come up with solutions while considering modern interventions. This is all done under the supervision of very kind, professional teachers who make you grow both professionally and as a person. Practicing with and working on these real-life problems also helped me during the internship period, in which you can apply your knowledge to practice. You get to understand in what ways your research skills and knowledge about behaviour change can be valuable to a company or organisation.

In conclusion, I can say that I learned a lot from this Master's programme, and I look forward to bringing everything I have learned into practice. I recommend this Master’s programme to anyone who likes learning about behaviour change and health psychology and enjoys a combination of research and more practical activities.