The Berkeley APEC Study Center conducts multidisciplinary research on political, economic, and business trends in the Asia-Pacific, especially related to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC

The Berkeley Center for Economics and Politics (BCEP) brings together scholars working in the field of political economy, with a goal to advance research on the connections between economics and politics. The Center considers issues related to governance, political institutions, development, conflict, and politics in weakly institutionalized societies.

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion (BCSR) advances creative and critical scholarship on religion. BCSR faculty research, public programming, and graduate training drive new approaches to the study of religion and its intellectual and material contexts.

The Berkeley Population Center was founded in 2005 to promote interdisciplinary research and collaboration focused on all aspects of population studies. Signature themes include reproduction and HIV; health disparities; inequalities and opportunities; behavioral economics; and formal demography.

The Cannabis Research Center promotes interdisciplinary scholarship on the social and environmental dimensions of cannabis production.

How can public- and private-sector institutions better coordinate to respond to large-scale disasters? The Center for Catastrophic Risk Management (CCRM) is dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary solutions to avoid and mitigate the impacts of catastrophic events. Among the CCRM's signature initiatives is the Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure Networks (RESIN) project, which was launched in 2008 with a mandate to develop new approaches to improve resilience and sustainability in critical infrastructure systems.

The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR) was founded in 2006 at Columbia University by Professor Alfred C. Stepan through a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs. Professor Karen Barkey became co-director of CDTR in 2009. CDTR conducts research and training on the interfaces of and tensions between religion, toleration, and democracy in the world.

UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) is a hub for research on global development, and brings a scientific lens to this important field, integrating empirical economic analysis with expertise in agriculture, public health, education, engineering, and the environment.

With a generous starting grant from the Hewlett Foundation, the CLTC was established in 2015 as a research and collaboration hub at the University of California, Berkeley. Housed in the School of Information (I School), the Center will create an effective dialogue among industry, academia, policy, and practitioners, with an aim to foster research programs, technologies, and recommendations. CLTC’s work is founded on a future-oriented conceptualization of cybersecurity—what it could imply and mean for human beings, machines, and the societies that will depend on both.

The Center has two parts: a core team of experts on the science of the neural mind; and a network of research partners, labs and other centers run by UC Berkeley faculty in the following areas: neuroscience, data science with deep semantics, decision-making, political analysis, human rights, systemic causation in global warming, and new conceptual understandings of quantum mechanics.

A cross-disciplinary hub for research, teaching, and outreach on the histories and implications of scientific research, biomedicine, and new technologies, from geo-engineering to synthetic biology.

The Center on Economy and Morality (EMMA) investigates how emerging technologies such as financial data mining affect people’s conduct in their everyday lives, and how they are shaping wealth inequality and the nature of moral hierarchies in society.

CEDA comprises a group of mathematical and statistical demographers who apply their skills in such research areas as biodemography, demographic modeling and forecasting, and intergenerational transfers, including fiscal accounting.

The Center on the Politics of Development (CPD) at the University of California, Berkeley promotes the study of the politics of developing societies by advancing collaboration among faculty and graduate students at Berkeley and connecting their research to central policy dilemmas.

The Citrin Center is a nonpartisan multidisciplinary institution bringing together leading scholars of public opinion and political culture, both nationally and internationally to report and advance cutting-edge research.

With a focus on issues related to marketplace competition and regulation, UC Berkeley’s Competition Policy Center bridges the gap between academic analysis and policy formation, with an eye toward shaping U.S. competition policy.

Founded through a partnership with State Street Global Exchange, the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR) is focused on applying advanced data-science techniques to manage and mitigate economic and financial risk. CDAR brings together researchers from across UC Berkeley and builds upon the programs of the Center for Risk Management Research (CRMR), an existing unit dedicated to understanding the dynamics of risk in financial markets, and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), which promotes scientific breakthroughs by advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven discovery.

XLab is an interdisciplinary laboratory for conducting experiment-based investigations into issues of interest to social scientists, with 36 computers available for in-lab behavioral and economic research.

Global Metropolitan Studies established a field of study at Berkeley to address major transformations in cities around the world, and to change how we study cities. Urbanization brings a range of new political configurations and challenges—ecological crises, processes of democratization and de-democratization, urban marginality, and emergent strategies of recognition and resistance. Global Metropolitan Studies is a community of scholars across disciplines at Berkeley that investigates these new challenges and politics of the new urban century.

Through its interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives, the Human Rights Program (HRP) at UC Berkeley investigates the political, historical, legal, economic, social, psychological, and representational dynamics of human rights.

The Institute of European Studies seeks to enrich America's understanding of Europe—its people, developments, and challenges—through the generation and dissemination of distinguished scholarship. As the University's focal point for the study of Europe, IES brings disciplines together to create new cross-disciplinary understandings of European issues and issues related to Europe and its constituent nations.
 

The Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces brings together scholars from multiple domains—including public health, public policy, environmental design, architecture, engineering, computer science, nutrition, law, and economics—to find solutions to improve the health and wellness of employees in a wide range of workplace environments.

UC Berkeley’s Mobile Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xm Lab) exists to help researchers use mobile devices and other sensors as a radical new platform for conducting social science experiments.

An interdisciplinary group of faculty and students at the University of California, Berkeley has launched a Network for a New Political Economy, supported by the Hewlett Foundation, to rethink poli

In collaboration with the Norwegian Research Council, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study enables UC Berkeley faculty to conduct exploratory and cutting-edge research in tandem with leading researchers from eight Norwegian higher education institutions.

UC Berkeley's D-Lab provides an array of services to support data-intensive social science, including consulting and advising, access to staff support, and training and provisioning for software and other infrastructure needs.