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Research areas

Social science research plays an important role in understanding and shaping societal development. Here, we present an overview of our research, which spans several disciplines.

Research in Departments

Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics

Research at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics

Department of Informatics

Research at Department of Informatics

Department of Law

Research at Department of Law

Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science

Research at the Department of Food, Nutrition and Culinary Science

Department of Education

Research at Department of Education

Department of Psychology

Research at Department of Psychology

Department of Social Work

Research at Department of Social Work

Research at Umeå centrum för funktionshinderforskning

Department of Sociology

Research at Department of Sociology

Department of Political Science

Research at Department of Political Science

Research at Centre for principal development

Department of Applied Educational Science

Research at Department of Applied Educational Science

Department of Geography

Research at Department of Geography

Research in work units

Umeå School of Sport Sciences

Research at Umeå School of Sport Sciences

Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)

Research at Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)

Unit of Police Work

Research at Unit of Police Work

Unit of Economic History

Research at Unit of Economic History

Centre for Regional Science (CERUM)

Research at Centre for Regional Science

Research at Transportation Research Unit
 

Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS)

Research at Umeå Centre for Gender Studies
 

Research at centres

Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE)

Research at Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE)

Centre for Digital Social Research

Research at Centre for Digital Social Research

 

An overview of our research projects

VIPVIZA
A population-based database focusing on atherosclerosis and the prevention of cardiovascular disease.
National e-Infrastructure for Aging Research (NEAR)
The national resarch infrastructure NEAR facilitates the use of databases from major population longitudinal studies on aging and health in Sweden
Research area: Ageing research, Demography
DEMSCORE
The national research infrastructure DEMSCORE (Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social policy, Conflict, and Representation) brings together some...
Research area: Political science
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
The European research infrastructure SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) is a transdisciplinary and longitudinal interview-ba...
Research area: Ageing research, Demography
Demographic Data Base
The Demographic Data Base (DDB) is a national research infrastructure that registers, processes and disseminates data for research, educational and...
Research area: Demography
SwedPop: Swedish population databases for research
Access to the most significant Swedish historical population databases.
Research area: Demography, Digital humanities
Representative Democracy Data Archive (REPDEM)
REPDEM provides access to world-leading databases for research on the struggle for government power in parliamentary democracies.
Research area: Political science
European Social Survey (ESS)
ESS provides data on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in more than 30 European countries.
Research area: Sociology
Latest update: 2026-06-22