Research at the FMG

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Research Priority Areas

Research Priority Areas

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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.

Urban Studies

Focus on urban processes

The research priority area Urban Studies focuses on the mutual relations between key social, economic, cultural and political issues and the multifaceted urban environment.

Brain and Cognition

Studying the human brain

The Brain and Cognition research priority area focuses on how the brains facilitate the skills that enable people to deal effectively with their environment.

Global Health

Healthcare in the context of globalisation

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 research priority area studies these developments.

Communication

Communication

The Research Priority Area (RPA) Communication puts questions about the effects of media and communication center place. The RPA is guided by a shared empirical focus on the contents, uses and consequences of media and communication.