Education and Child Studies

The Leiden Institute of Education and Child Studies aims to conduct high-quality research that addresses major social issues. This inspires its BSc, MSc and PhD programmes.

Social issues that are currently being investigated include child abuse, the quality of daycare, children’s reading problems, and the early diagnosis of children with severe mental and physical handicaps. The institute cooperates with other institutes believing that an interdisciplinary approach is fundamental to our understanding.

Most reseachers have a leading role in the teaching programme. The programmes aim to train students to become academic professionals, with advanced research skills and substantial practical research experience.

**Pedagogical Sciences (BSc)** About children, young people and their environment

**Academische Pabo (Dutch)** Create your own vision on primary education and combine Child Studies with educating children

**Education and Child Studies (MSc)** Specialize in one of the sub disciplines of Education and Child Studies

**Babylab Leiden** Babylab Leiden investigates how babies learn and form expectations about the world around them.

Brain and Education Lab In the Brain and Education Lab we study the development of complex cognitive processes involved in skills such as learning, reading and math.

Selective Mutism Expertise Team (Dutch) By connecting science, practice, education and care, the Selective Mutism Expertise Team helps to improve care and information for people with selective mutism.

**LUBEC: Leids Universitair Behandel- en Expertise Centrum (Dutch)** Where diagnostics and treatment meets scientific research, academic teaching and post-master's programs

Resilience Center The Resilience Center Leiden investigates how stress impacts the mental health of young people. With a multidimensional approach, the Resilience Center Team aims to ultimately understand the mechanisms that aid resilient responses to stress.

TRIXY Center of Expertise (Dutch) Collaborative care for children with X and Y chromosome trisomies

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