Prerequisites
- High level undergraduate student.
- Minimum GPA 3.4
- Sincere interest in psychogerontology / geriatrics/existential topics;
- Familiarity with statistical software packages (SPSS, R, …);
- Openness for qualitative methodology;
- Team player.
Important note:
Students must remain registered as an undergraduate student at their U.S. or Canadian home institution while participating in the program. The student's home institution must complete the Learning Agreement after acceptance into a project, even if credits will not be transferred to that institution. Transfer of credits is decided by the students' home institution.
Submitting an application, does not guarantee that the student will be offered a placement. The research projects are also available to our domestic degree students; therefore, projects may already be full at the time of applying. Final decision on your admission is solely taken by the Research Supervisor at the host institution.
Faculty Department
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences / Department Meaning and Existence
Meaning & Existence is a collaboration between researchers of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences that focuses on the existential layer of human life. It aims to gain and deepen our insight in how people cope with their ultimate concerns, how they try to find meaning in life, and how existential challenges influence their psychological and physical health and well-being. Based on research, Meaning & Existence creates a vision on health care that includes the existential aspects of life and strives to develop concrete meaning-focused applications and existential therapeutic interventions.
Meaning Research Late Life Lab is part of M&E and focuses on late life and frail older adults. Their research is situated on the nexus of psychogerontology, existential psychology and positive psychology.
