The Centre of South Asian Studies is an inter-disciplinary research centre for the study of South and Southeast Asia. The Centre has many resources including a library and extensive archive open to all. The Centre also offers an MPhil course in Modern South Asian Studies.
The Centre of Latin-American Studies (CLAS) offers a taught MPhil (Masters) course in Latin American Studies, provides supervision for PhD (doctoral) students, sponsors research projects, organizes conferences and invites scholars from Latin America and universities around the world to speak at weekly open seminars. CLAS also hosts the prestigious Simón Bolívar Chair of Latin American Studies, a visiting professorship for distinguished Latin American intellectuals and maintains a library containing over 12,000 volumes and 500 films.
The Centre of African Studies acts as a hub for graduate-level and faculty interdisciplinary research and houses a library and archive. The Centre offers a one-year interdisciplinary MPhil and runs a Research Programme which brings African academics to Cambridge each year.
The Centre of Governance and Human Rights draws together experts, practitioners and policy-makers from the University and beyond to think about pressing issues throughout the world.
The Centre for Rising Powers is the first initiative of its kind to look beyond immediate cases to study the why and how of new powers like Brazil, Russia, India and China.
The Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit is an inter-disciplinary research unit with an area of interest centred on Mongolia and the region across the great steppes to the Himalayas. It has a network of scholars, and activites and events.
Sociology
The Cambridge Undergraduate Quantitative Methods (CUQM) centre is dedicated to improving the provision of quantitative methods training to social science and humanities undergraduates at the University of Cambridge.
The Social Science Research Methods Centre (SSRMC) is an interdisciplinary centre providing research methods training to University of Cambridge staff and postgraduate students at MPhil and PhD level. The typical programme covers qualitative, and quantitative research methods, from basic training to advanced statistical analysis.
The Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) was established in October 2012 to develop and support funded research on the technological transformation of reproduction and related forms of social and cultural change.
