Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies (DPECS) Our department consists of
6 teams covering the disciplines of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Pedagogical Sciences; three closely related disciplines with each their own profile. The different psychological specialization areas of DPECS focus on understanding cognitive, physical, and social functioning and well-being in the context of mental health, education, and work. The educational sciences focus on issues regarding effectiveness and inclusion in primary, secondary and tertiary education. The pedagogical sciences focus on issues related to everyday as well as problematic development and upbringing within families, at school and in youth care. The disciplinary perspectives of DPECS complement each other and share the mission to generate societal impact with high-quality scientifical research on timely societal issues, and with the use of innovative methods and techniques and open science. The bachelor and master programs of DPECS build on this mission and educate students to become scientifically trained professionals for the society of the future.
More information about the research at DPECS can be found here:
https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/information/researchers/lab-society More information about the education programs offered at DPECS can be found here:
https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/education Our department also has access to an excellent laboratory for research and education purposes. The Erasmus Behavioural Lab offers state-of-the art facilities, including video observation, EEG, eye-tracking, virtual reality, experience sampling, and biofeedback:
https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/information/researchers/erasmus-behavioural-labTeam Work and Organizational Psychology Our team is united in its goal to collectively provide high quality contributions across all three pillars of our field of work and organizational psychology: work psychology, organizational psychology, and personnel psychology. We do this from a positive psychology perspective: using a psychological lens focused on the employee, we aim to leverage the strengths of individual employees to foster employee well-being and performance. Our team is also responsible for teaching in the bachelor program
Psychology, and the master specializations
Work & Organizational Psychology,
Digitalisation in Work and Society, and
Psychology of the Digital Media. We are a diverse and interdisciplinary team, where each member brings a unique set of skills, expertise, and academic interests. This key strength allows our team to approach tasks and challenges in a multifaceted way and cover the full breadth and complexity of the work and organizational psychology domain in our teaching, research, and wider impact. By leveraging and uniting all members' unique scientific strengths, our team aims to contribute to a world of work that fosters the potential and well-being of all employees to create healthy and productive organizations.