Thorough coursework and intensive coaching by individual supervisors helps to develop your research. In order to select and organize your field site, this programme provides access to extensive research networks of our staff members. Our master’s programme offers you also the possibility to join staff members into their own research specialities. The combination of in-depth courses and your individual ethnographic fieldwork enables you to learn how to enter, participate in, understand and report on particular ways of living among different social communities. You acquire valuable skills for in and outside academia, including cultural awareness, analytical, critical and problem-solving skills. ‘Field Research and Training’ (FR&T) The programme offers you outstanding ‘Field Research and Training’ support in the Netherlands, Ghana and The Philippines. Hands-on training by experienced staff members from Leiden University speeds up your process of settling in your field site and understanding its research context. Participating in a ‘FR&T’ is highly recommended as it provides the most effective road to collecting evidence-based data and writing a cutting-edge analysis. Three unique specialisations Global Ethnography provides you with the opportunity to develop and conduct an individualized research project at a location of your choice; Sociology of Policy in Practice teaches you to think along with organizations to help them respond to the challenges they are facing in our quickly changing societies; Visual Ethnography offers expanded training in how to use audio-visual methods for producing contemporary anthropological research. The master's programme in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology teaches students to independently design an academic research project, and execute and report on it with the full reflexivity that validates its expertise. World-class education At Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands, learning incorporates the latest research. The research of our Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology staff is conducted all over the world and stimulates you in preparing and realizing your own three-month ethnographic fieldwork, examining how large issues manifest themselves on a local level.

As a graduate of the MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, you are qualified to work within a variety of fields. Your analytical qualifications and social science skills are a much desirable asset in various sectors, ranging from business and non-profit organisations to the governmental sector. Some of the occupations of our graduates include: Research projects commissioned by ministries or private institutes; Development projects in foreign countries, like the Junior Professional Officers Programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the United Nations; Staff member in non-profit organisations like NOVIB and SNV; Ethnological museums: as education officers or as conservator involved in collecting, examining and presenting material culture; Communication consultant in a commercial company; Municipalities; as policy advisor dealing with issues concerning the multi-cultural society; Universities; teaching and doing scientific research.