Our fields of study

The research conducted by our permanent faculty addresses major issues in all regions of the world, such as environmental transformation, digital transition, inequality, public health, urban development, risk management, and democracy, to name a few.

Their research harnesses cutting-edge methods to advance knowledge and understanding in five central disciplines.

• in law: the globalisation of legal practices, intellectual property in the digital age, environmental protection and the commons;
• in economics: a range of research seeking to revisit behavioural economics in light of cognitive dimensions of economic choices or game theory;
• in history: new approaches to comparative history, drawing on global history or analysing the links between history and art;
• in political science: in-depth research into crises of democracy worldwide, the emergence of populism and declining trust in political elites;
• in sociology: further to the core issue of inequality, there is a strong focus on gender and the environment.

At the same time, it addresses fundamental questions, as illustrated by the support our teams receive from major funding agencies such as the European Research Council and the French National Research Agency.

Research at Sciences Po stands out for its extensive range of approaches, from ethnography to the most sophisticated econometric methods. Thanks to the methodological input of the médialab and the research tools developed by the DIME-SHS Programme (Infrastructure Data and Survey Methodology in Humanities and Social Sciences), our researchers take full advantage of the new possibilities offered by digital technology in their humanities and social science work.

For more information

Research website