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Departments and centres

Education and research are conducted at Stockholm University within departments, centres and institutes.

Departments

There are 51 departments, centres and institutes which answer directly to the boards of human science and science, or the faculty boards.

Faculty of Humanities

Website for the Faculty of Humanities

Departments:

Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies

Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Department of English

Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies

Department of History

Department of Culture and Aesthetics

Department of Linguistics

Department of Media Studies

Department of Philosophy

Department of Romance Studies and Classics 

Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German

Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Department of Teaching and Learning

Other within Faculty of Humanities

Accelerator

Faculty of Law

Website for the Faculty of Law

Departments:

Department of Law

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

Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)

Faculty of Science

Website for the Faculty of Science

Mathematics-Physics Section

Department of Astronomy

Department of Mathematics

Department of Meteorology (MISU)

Department of Physics

Chemistry Section

Chemistry Section

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB)

Department of Chemistry

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

Department of Environmental Science

Department of Geological Sciences

Department of Physical Geography

Centres and institutes within science

Bergius Botanic Garden

Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA)

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre

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.

Faculty of Humanities

Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace

Centre for Research on Bilingualism

Centre for Logic, Language, and Mind (CLLAM)

Centre for Maritime Studies (CEMAS)

Centre for Medieval Studies

Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖI)

Nordic Institute of Latin American Studies (NILAS) 

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 (SCRC)

Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre

Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute

Institute for Social Private Law 

Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM)

Institute of European Law

Faculty of Social Sciences

Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS)

Center for Monetary Policy and Financial Stability (CeMoF) 

Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD)

Centre for the Studies of Children´s Culture

Hans Blix Centre for the History of International Relations (HBC)

Institute for Turkish Studies

Stockholm Center for Global Asia

Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)

Spider Center 

Stockholm University Psychology Clinic

Interdisciplinary center

Stockholm Center on Global Governance, SCGG

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)

Stockholm Mathematics centre (SMC)

Stockholm University Center for Circular and Sustainable Systems (SUCCeSS)

Stockholm University Centre for Radiation Protection Research ( CRPR)

The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics at Stockholm University

Tarfala Research Station

Tovetorp Research Station

University-wide centre

Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching

Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching

National science centre

SciLifeLab is a national resource of unique technologies and expertise available to life scientists

Building with the letter C.

Photo: Ingmarie Andersson

Contact

Please click on the website link if you have questions to the departments or centers.

Last updated: 2025-12-05

Source: Senior Management Team (SF)