Programme Groups

Multidisciplinary Centers

Research projects

Research

Multidisciplinary Centers

Cooperation across the programme groups is institutionalised in five interdisciplinary centres: Urban Studies; Global Health; Inequality Studies; Migration & Ethnic Studies and Gender and Sexuality.

Multidisciplinary Centres

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.

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.

AMCIS (Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies)

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 (concerning outcomes in the domains of education, work, and income), political behaviour and opinions, and living arrangements.

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.

IMES (Centre for Migration and Ethnic Studies)

IMES is an interdisciplinary research institute that focuses on international migration and the integration of immigrants and their descendants in host societies in a comparative perspective. Research projects revolve around themes such as transnationalism, religious diversity, multicultural democracy, radicalization, labour & entrepreneurship, generational change and urban public space.

Video Urban Studies

International Scholars on Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam

The future of Social Science Research

Video: AISSR researchers present current research projects and reflect on social sciences in the Netherlands

For Staff AISSR

Information for the staff of the AISSR

Research Priority Areas

Focus on scientific excellence.

The transnational modelling industry and the social shaping of beauty standards in six European countries