Prerequisits
- High level (3rd or 4th year) undergraduate student
- Minimum GPA 3.4
- Interest in working in the field of geronto-psychology, interest in existential topics, willing to actively join the weekly lab meetings, open for critical scientific discussions and brainstorm.
- Openness to join studies and to collaborate with the team.
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 / Meaning Research Late Life lab
The lab studies existential topics in highly advanced age. Current projects focus on how meaningfulness is related to late life psychological functioning and mental health, how existential isolation and loneliness are experienced at highly advanced age and whether and how existential struggles are related to psychological suffering and to tiredness of life. She is an advocate for a biopsychosocial-existential approach to elderly care. Research at the lab is interdisciplinary and multi/mixed method.