The Urban Studies Institute is a platform for urban sociologists, ecologists, economic geographers and transport economists, urban historians, literary scientists and city planners who firmly believe in the added value of interdisciplinary collaboration and an integrated and generalised approach.
The following research groups are represented:
- Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities and Literary Criticism (ACDC)
- Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences (ARCHES)
- Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA)
- MiGloba - Network on Migration and Global Mobility
- Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC)
- Centre for Urban History (CSG)
- Department of Transport and Regional Economics
- Edubron
- Epidemiology and Social Medicine (ESOC)
- Sustainable Pavements and Asphalt Research (SuPAR)
- Grammar and Pragmatics
- IDLab
- Institute for Environment & Sustainable Development (IMDO)
- Institute of Development Policy (IOB)
- Metropolitan Legal Lab
- Politics and Public Governance (PPG)
- Research Group for Urban Development
- Ecosystem Management & Systemic Physiological and Ecotoxicological Research (ECOSPHERE)
- Visual & Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
- Bio-based Sustainability Engineering (SUSTAIN)
- Department of Marketing