Departments and centres
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Education and research are conducted at Stockholm University within departments, centres and institutes.
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Departments
There are 51 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 and Middle Eastern Studies
Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies
Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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
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 Economic History and International Relations
Department of Political Science
Department of Public Health Sciences
Department of Social Anthropology
Department of Special Education
Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Departments − Science Academic Area
Faculty of Science
Website for the Faculty of Science
Mathematics-Physics Section
Department of Meteorology (MISU)
Chemistry Section
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB)
Biology Section
Department of Biology Education (BIG)
Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute (MBW)
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP)
Section for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department of Environmental Science
Department of Geological Sciences
Department of Physical Geography
Centres and institutes within science
Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA)
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.
Centres − Human Science Academic Area
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)
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)
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)
Stockholm Center for Global Asia
Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research (SCORE)
Stockholm University Psychology Clinic
Interdisciplinary center
Stockholm Center on Global Governance, SCGG
Centres − Science Academic Area
Astrobiology Centre at Stockholm University
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)
Platform for Local And Transitioned Eating (PLATE)
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
University-wide centre
Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching
Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching
National science centre
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Contact
Please click on the website link if you have questions to the departments or centers.
Last updated: 2026-01-30
Source: Senior Management Team (SF)
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