💥 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 💥     Take a look at the several job vacancies across the social sciences 👇    𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘷𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴    𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜...

Gender and (in)equality

Do job applicants who express a desire to work remotely or flexible hours face disadvantages in hiring processes? Prof. Lena Hipp will discuss this in her talk for the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality ...

Anthropologist Roanne van Voorst wins a 2026 ERC Public Engagement Award for bringing research on AI in healthcare to the theatre, exploring ethical dilemmas through real experiences.

The expansion of digital platforms into ever more economic sectors and social domains has concentrated enormous economic and political power in a handful of US- and China-based firms such as Amazon, G...

Discover the new Amsterdam PhD Programme at the AISSR, University of Amsterdam. Justus Uitermark & Doutje Lettinga discuss research, urban challenges, collaboration with the City of Amsterdam, and 8 f...

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YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

The project ‘Slavery past present: Dutch slavery and colonialism and their present-day impact’ has been awarded €3,286,541 by the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). The research will be conducted by a large...

The AISSR and MEN4DEM project welcome Liz Przybylski for a lecture and panel on hybrid ethnography and digital activism, exploring how digital platforms shape inequality, knowledge, and political mobi...

Professor Liza Mügge examines how diversity and inequality shape democracy, and why safety, representation and public debate are essential to a well-functioning political system.

Vrouw in de Media Award

In the collaborative research project Just Prepare, Imrat Verhoeven examines how the energy transition can be made fairer and more effective, particularly in vulnerable neighbourhoods.

Read the IMPULSE Spotlight on Alana Helberg Proctor and Bahareh Goodarzi, examining how race continues to shape healthcare in the Netherlands and what this means for reproductive justice.

AISSR Lecture by Pulitzer Prize–winning sociologist Matthew Desmond on poverty, housing and welfare policy. Discover how rising housing costs undermine anti-poverty programs in the US.

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior

Wie kunnen het overnemen als de Islamitische Republiek aan haar eind komt? Socioloog Ladan Rahbari, die Iran in 2015 verliet, kent genoeg kandidaten. Die zijn niet allemaal even serieus te nemen. ‘De ...

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

Explore how contemporary European fascism operates within liberal democracy and why migration is its core battleground. This AISSR lecture by Schinkel & Van Reekum offers sharp insights on Europe and ...

YouTube video by Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research

Cartoons You can browse and download each episode of our Cartoon Series: Let’s Design Equality Together here. Cartoons and supporting materials are available in English and an additional language depe...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to nine UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Jaron Harambam, Eirini Karyotaki, Patty Leijten, Dora Matzke, Matthijs Roodui...

Discover how Steven Pickering’s IMPULSE-funded research explores rebuilding public trust through cross-national experiments and guides policymakers in today’s uncertain political climate.

In this lecture, Prof. Dr. Claudia Diehl discusses to what extent the various mechanisms that have been proposed to explain perceived ethnic discrimination apply to other disadvantaged groups and othe...

In this talk, Dr Anthony Miro Born (London School of Economics and Political Science) critically explores the ideal of social mobility.

<p><span>Ben jij op zoek naar een functie waar je jouw organisatorische vaardigheden in kwijt kan? Ben jij zowel communicatief als administratief goed onderlegd en zet je deze talenten graag in binnen de academische wereld? Dan is de functie Programmamanager bij het Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (Universiteit van Amsterdam) wat voor jou! </span></p>

UvA-docent en liefdesonderzoeker Rahil Roodsaz (43) doet antropologisch onderzoek naar langdurige relaties in de Waterlandpleinbuurt in Noord. ‘Ik vraag heel concreet: waar en hoe vindt het liefhebben...