Affiliated Centers

The Berkeley Food Institute (BFI) works to catalyze and support transformative changes in food systems, to promote diversity, justice, resilience, and health, from the local to the global. BFI envisions a world in which nutritious, affordable food is available for all and is produced sustainably and fairly, ensuring healthy people and a healthy planet. The […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.