Departments and centres
Education and research are conducted at Stockholm University within 53 departments, centres and institutes which answer directly to the boards of human science and science, or the faculty boards.
Departments - Human Science Academic Area
Faculty of Humanities
Website for the Faculty of Humanities
Departments:
- Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies
- Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies
- Department of English
- Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
- Department of History
- Department of Culture and Aesthetics
- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Education
- Department of Language Education
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Media Studies
- Department of Philosophy
- Department of Romance Studies and Classics (In Swedish)
- Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German
- Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Other within Faculty of Humanities
Faculty of Law
Website for the Faculty of Law
Departments:
Faculty of Social Sciences
Website for the Faculty of Social Sciences
Departments:
- Department of Computer and Systems Sciences
- Department of Child and Youth Studies
- Department of Criminology
- Department of Economic History and International Relations
- Department of Economics
- Department of Education
- Department of Human Geography
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Public Health Sciences
- Department of Social Anthropology
- Department of Social Work
- Department of Sociology
- Department of Special Education
- Department of Statistics
- Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
- Stockholm Business School
- Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
- Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Departments - Science Academic Area
Website for the Faculty of Science
Mathematics-Physics Section
- Department of Astronomy
- Department of Mathematics and Science Education (MND)
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Meteorology (MISU)
- Department of Physics
Chemistry Section
Website for the Chemistry Section
Departments:
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB)
- Department of Organic Chemistry
- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry (MMK)
Biology Section
- Department of Biology Education (BIG)
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW)
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP)
- Department of Zoology
Section for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Website for the Section for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Departments:
- Department of Environmental Science
- Department of Geological Sciences
- Department of Physical Geography
Centres and institutes within science
Centres within departments
Within the University, there exist centers, including institutes and field stations, which organisationally belong to an institution. These units are often integrative research environments, involving several subjects and institutions, as well as third parties, but can also be specialised research institutes.
Human Science Academic Area
Faculty of Humanities
Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
Centre for Research on Bilingualism
Centre for Cultural Evolution
Centre for Logic, Language, and Mind (CLLAM)
Centre for Maritime Studies (CEMAS)
Centre for Medieval Studies
Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies
Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies (NILAS)
Institute for Turkish Studies
National Centre for Swedish as a Second Language
Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC)
Faculty of Law
Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL)
Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice (SCILJ)
Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child
Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre
Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences
Centre for the Studies of Children´s Culture
Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)
Stockholm University Centre for Radiation Protection Research (CRPR)
Centre Health Equity Studies (CHESS)
eGovlab
Stress Research Institute
Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions
Science Academic Area
Askö Laboratory
Astrobiology Centre at Stockholm University
Baltic Nest Institute
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Institute for Solar Physics (ISP)
International Meteorological Institute in Stockholm (IMI)
National Resource Center for Chemistry Teachers
Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO)
Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics
Stockholm Mathematics centre (SMC)
Tarfala
Tovetorp (in swedish only)
Contact
Please click on the website link if you have questions to the departments or centers.
Do you have questions about the content of the lists?
Email: suwebb@su.se
Last updated: October 27, 2020
Source: Senior Management Team