Research priority areas

In 2008, the University of Amsterdam established 15 Research Priority Areas: cutting-edge international research representing the best the UvA has to offer. In this way, the UvA hopes to maintain and stimulate research excellence. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) serves as the secretariat of three research priority areas: Urban Studies, Brain and Cognition and Communication. The FMG also makes a significant contribution to the Global Health research priority area, of which the AMC serves as the secretariat.

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  Brain and Cognition

  Cognition is a broad area of study that encompasses observation, thought and action, as well as emotion, consciousness and movement. In short, all the mental faculties that allow humans to interact normally with their environment and learn how to ...

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  Communication

  Communication effects are understood not as across-the-board, but as conditional and as moderated by individual and contextual factors. The susceptibility to communication effects is differential and the research pursued follows an entirely new ...

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  Global Health

  Due to increased international traffic and globalisation diseases have become global as well. In addition, globalisation causes increased migration of medical staff and an increasing inequality in health care between countries. The Global Health ...

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  Urban Studies

  The urban environment has become the ‘natural' habitat for more than half of the world population. Many important social issues, such as quality of life, inequality, conflict, identity and culture, and pollution, are now first and foremost linked ...

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