University of Amsterdam

The Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) is a research institute in Communication Science residing in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Communication Science, of the University of Amsterdam. It is a research institute with more than 50 senior researchers associated and an English-language PhD programme.

ASCoR is part of the University of Amsterdam, and interacts with the bachelor, master, and research master curricula in communication science. These programmes attract up to 1,100 graduate and undergraduate students a year.

ASCoR is active in both national and international academic communities: it coordinates the national communications research school; it attracts funding from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO); and its scholars make their research public at international conferences, in journals, and in book form.

ASCoR faculty are also represented in international communication organisations, such as the International Communication Association (ICA), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), the media network of the European Science Foundation, and the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). ASCoR members are on the editorial boards of international communication journals.