Research Institutes UvA

• Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
• Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
• Centre for Digital Humanities(CDH); a joint initiative with the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of  Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

National Research Institutes

• Research School for Media Studies (RMeS); a collaboration of eight Dutch universities led by the University of Amsterdam, for PhD training and research dissemination.
• Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
• Huizinga Institute; National research network for cultural history

Research projects

• CREATE (Creative Amsterdam: An E-Humanities Perspective); investigates how cultural industries have shaped Amsterdam’s unique position in a European and global context, from the seventeenth century until the present day.
• DATACTIVE; about big data collection, privacy and surveillance, social movements, activism and internet activism.
• ASCA Cities Project; ' brings together a diverse group of scholars, research students, and practitioners particulary interested in comparing the cultural dimensions of cities.
• CHINA CREATIVE; from Made in China to Created in China. A Comparative Study of Creative Practice and Production in Contemporary China.
• Every year, the New Media Team organises a 'Summer and Winter School'.

Research priority areas Faculty of Humanities

• Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS); with projects concerning global mobility, sustainability, aesthetics, and connectivity.
• Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI); aims to integrate research on culture, identity, and history and is organized in six, thematic domains.