The Amsterdam Brain and Cognition research priority area studies how people's brains facilitate their mental capacity and therefore enable individuals to adequately respond to their environment, as well as how they learn to improve themselves.

The Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS) provides a platform for knowledge exchange between researchers who study conflict and policymakers and professionals who specialise in conflict resolution.

The Research Centre Curriculum Studies (RCCS) is a collaboration between SLO and the University of Amsterdam, Department of Educational Sciences. The purpose of this collaboration is to elucidate factors influencing curriculum decision-making processes and to enhance these processes.

The Amsterdam Interdisciplinary Centre for Emotion is a virtual centre for emotion scholars in Amsterdam. Key points of focus in our research are nonverbal communication (facial and vocal signals), emotional experience, cultural similarities and differences, and embodiment and mimicry.

The mutual dependency between the Netherlands, Europe and the rest of the world confronts us with challenges we must learn to understand and to which we must formulate solutions. The research priority area Amsterdam Centre for European Studies focuses on research, education, public events and debates concerning the European Union and its member states.

The Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) offers an interdisciplinary forum for scientists and students to explore the themes of gender and sexuality in the social sciences. 

Along with the rise in international travel and globalisation, illnesses have become global as well. While increasing migration of medical staff and widespread distribution of medical technology can be observed, we can – paradoxically enough – also see a rise in the inequality in healthcare between countries. The Social Science and Global Health research priority area (SSGH) focuses on how to tackle these problems and organise adequate healthcare.

The Amsterdam Center for Health Communication (ACHC) strives to promote good health by conducting scientific research into effective communication.

In recent decades, inequality in income and wealth has risen in many countries, the number of people living in poverty has increased and unequal access to educational opportunities has persisted. The Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies (AMCIS) looks at the role institutions play in these inequality issues, specifically when factors such as socio-economic background, education, gender and ethnicity are considered.

The Landelijk Expertisecentrum Mens- en Maatschappijvakken is a collaborative initiative involving the Interfaculty Teacher Training programs of the UvA and VU (Education Center), the Education and Upbringing domain of the HvA, and IPABO. The center aims to develop, gather, share, and apply didactic knowledge related to the school subjects geography, economics, history, civic education, and art theory.

The SoBe DSC is the social and behavioural sciences hub of the university’s central Data Science Centre. The SoBe DSC covers all activities at the intersection of computer science, mathematics and statistics, and at least one of the substantive disciplines of the social and behavioural sciences.

The Centre for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS) brings together expertise for the purpose of analysing urgent environmental issues, with specific attention paid to inequality, poverty and human dignity.

The Centre for Urban Mental Health to unravel new pathways to improve Urban Mental Health that takes into account the complexities and dynamics of mental health problems and mental health disorders in an urban environment.

For more than half the world's population, urban areas are their ‘natural’ living environment. There is no way to achieve a more fair, just and sustainable society without these cities and urban dwellers. The Centre for Urban Studies promotes interdisciplinary, international and societal collaboration in research focusing on cities.

The research platform Citizens, Society and Artificial Intelligence (CiSAI) unites social and behavioural science researchers who analyse the effects of AI on societal dynamics and on the lives of individual citizens.