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Study programme
Our intensive, one-year programme combines coursework and a thesis project based on your own individual fieldwork. You can choose to do research in the Netherlands or anywhere else in Europe; go to Asia, Africa or the Americas. You will design and organise your own research project, on a medical anthropological or sociological theme of your interest, with the guidance of our international academic staff.
Practical fieldwork and theoretical training in one year
Focus on health, care and the body in their broadest senses
Combine Anthropology, Sociology, and Science & Technology Studies
Excellent supervision and global research infrastructure
Academic staff
The staff teaching in the Medical Anthropology and Sociology programme is internationally renowned for its research excellence. The programme director is dr. Danny de Vries.
Careers
Medical Anthropology and Sociology is a dynamic field and one of the fastest growing specialisations in social science. There is an increasing demand for professionals who are able to work in multidisciplinary, problem-driven research and health interventions.
Is Medical Anthropology and Sociology for you?
- Do you like to read critically and write a lot?
- Are you interested in both social studies and science & technology studies?
- Do you enjoy comparing theoretical approaches and applying them to current issues and relevant empirical data?
- Are you self-motivated and keen on doing your own autonomous ethnographic fieldwork?
Then Medical Anthropology and Sociology might be interesting for you.