Organisation

Research centres

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is affiliated with various research centres.

  • ACCESS EUROPE

    ACCESS EUROPE, an UvA-VU cooperation, is a platform for research, education and public debate about Europe, the European Union and its member states.

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  • Amsterdam Brain & Cognition (ABC)

    ABC is an interdisciplinary institute for cognition research in which a number of research institutes from the University of Amsterdam participate. The Center comprises groups from Biology, Psychology, Computer Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, ...

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  • Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS)

    AMCIS studies inequalities in (post-) industrialized societies and particularly focuses on the impact of stratifying variables (social origin, education, gender and ethnicity) on three outcome pillars: socioeconomic attainment, political ...

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  • Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality Studies (ARC-GS)

    AISSR researchers have have taken the initiative to constitute a new Interdisciplinary Research Centre to bring together scholars from different disciplines working on gender, sexuality and related issues, especially race and ethnicity.

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  • Amsterdams Centre for Conflict Studies (ACS)

    ACS is an initiative for the interdisciplinary study of conflict and conflict transformation. The aim of the centre is to improve cooperation between scholars and professionals on education, research and the exchange of external knowledge.

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  • Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media (CcaM)

    The Center for Research on Children, Adolescents and the Media, strives to better understand the role of media in children's and adolescents' lives.

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  • Centre for Social Science and Global Health (SSGH)

    SSGH is organised around one of 15 Research Priority Areas at the University of Amsterdam. SSGH builds on a long tradition of multidisciplinary social science research on health and illness.

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  • Centre for Urban Studies

    The Centre is organised around one of 15 research priority areas at the University of Amsterdam and focuses on the urban environment uniting social scientists, geographers and planners of different programme groups.

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  • Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES)

    IMES is a multidisciplinary and interfaculty research centre that focuses on international migration and the integration of immigrants and their descendants in host societies in a comparative perspective.

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