Language
  • English
Format
  • Full time
  • Part time
Start date
  • September
Location
  • Maastricht
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Occupational Health and Sustainable Work

Shape the future of work and create healthy, sustainable and inclusive workplaces. Develop and evaluate interventions, apply a biopsychosocial approach, and use evidence-based strategies to improve employability, well-being, and workplace policies.

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Your future

Occupational Health and Sustainable Work graduates are extremely needed. Developments such as the digital revolution, robotisation, the corona crisis but also the demographic change and increase of workers with chronic illnesses will change the way of working. To promote decent workplaces and sustainable employability for all, expertise is required. From past experience, it is known that this master’s programme provides excellent career prospects. Reputable companies need experts who can formulate and implement policies on employee health and productivity. Likewise, government bodies are fertile grounds for policy advisers, analysts, researchers or consultants in these areas. 

Other possible career paths include

Consultancy

Occupational Health and Sustainable Work graduates can at private consultancies and occupational health services, where they provide advice to organizations on health-related human resource management, case management, empowerment, career development issues, and occupational health and safety. Some work as self-employed Work & Health consultant.

Health Management

In large organisations, graduates of the Occupational Health and Sustainable Work programme have found jobs as Health Managers, HR-advisors or disability managers to establish projects to improve employee health.

Policy making

Some Occupational Health and Sustainable Work graduates have also found work as policymakers or policy advisors at social insurance (UWV), vocational rehabilitation agencies, rehabilitation centres, regional health services (GGDs), employers’ organisations, trade unions, municipalities and patient organisations.

Academia

Our graduates can also be found at universities for applied science, where they teach prospective nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, HR-managers etc. on work and health. Some conduct research at academic institutions on for example sickness absence, burn-out and other mental health disorders, musculoskeletal disorders, and work-related care within healthcare.