2.七大重点研究领域
研究领域一：生物与医学
A rainbow comprises a continuous spectrum of colours, but there are a few dominant colours that stand out: there is basic research, clinical research and traditional research, and the three form a continuity while each preserving their specific characteristics.The rainbow also acts as a bridge, linking the world of research to the City, with its needs, and the social issues in which researchers are involved.It is still a commitment. According to Irish folklore, there is a leprechaun living at the foot of every rainbow, guarding a pot of gold. This pot symbolises the "wealth" of research, which produces advances in knowledge, and can generate clinical applications. This wealth may also entail some negative results, but good-quality research which does not necessarily verify the original hypothesis is still good research. It is crucial to highlight it and communicate its results in order to guide other researchers.Taking care of the specifics also means accepting differences. While research may be a goal in itself for biologists, it is often simply a means for clinicians. These are two laudable approaches, linked by the "translation", which is also important to respect.Similarly, it is vital to ensure the widest possible freedom, while bearing in mind that research must ultimately be useful. The great paradox of the researcher's position is that their freedom allows them to avoid hijacking from the market, a system where only profitability matters. Instead, their freedom promotes research in the service of humankind, and not just the market.This freedom comes at a price, however. It relies on public funding, and it is therefore our duty to do everything we can to highlight the fruits of that research. In a broader sense, we can do this by publishing it, by communicating it, by sharing it, and by bringing together resources to advance science and medicine.
研究应该被认为是彩虹，彩虹包括连续的色彩但有一些主要的颜色突出：有基础研究，临床研究和传统研究三者形成连续性同时保持其特征。彩虹也是桥梁，将研究的世界与城市的需要，以及研究人员参与的社会问题联系起来。它仍然是一个承诺。根据爱尔兰民间传说，有一个妖精生活在每一条彩虹的脚下，守着一壶金子。这个壶象征着研究的财富，这产生了知识的进步，并且可以产生临床应用。这种财富也可能带来一些消极的结果，但不一定验证原始假设的优质研究仍然是很好的研究。突出它并交流结果至关重要，以指导其他研究人员。照顾细节也意味着接受差异。虽然研究本身可能是生物学家的目标，但它通常只是临床医生的一种手段。这些是两个值得称赞的方法，与翻译相联系，对尊重也是重要的。同样，确保尽可能广泛的自由是至关重要的，同时要考虑到研究最终是有用的。研究者的立场的悖论是，他们的自由使他们能够避免劫持市场，一个只有盈利能力很重要的制度。相反，他们的自由促进了人类的服务研究，而不仅仅是市场。然而，这种自由是有代价的。它依赖于公共资金，因此我们有责任尽我们所能来突出这项研究的成果。从广义上讲，我们可以通过发布，通过交流，分享，汇集资源推动科学和医学，来做到这一点。
研究领域二：法律，刑事司法和公共管理
The Faculty carries out intense research activity in the main fields of legal practice, particularly within its various centres and institutes.The Faculty’s publications stand out by their scientific rigour, their originality and their openness to the world (foreign legislations, comparative, European and international law), to the future (environmental law, information and communication law, etc), and to related fields (interdisciplinary projects on complex cross-disciplinary questions).The Faculty’s dynamic approach to research is underlined also by the number and quality of doctoral theses defended each year within its walls, and also by the participation of young researchers in different conferences or seminars and their collaboration in important publications.Research in Criminology:The School of Criminal Justice (ESC) offers a multidisciplinary education par excellence. Research fuels this diversity with interests in criminal activity, its traces and definition, criminal behaviour and the consequences of crime, its investigation, law and procedure, its consequences in terms of security and prevention, demonstration of proof, and finally the consequences for the criminal, their punishment and rehabilitation. This multidisciplinarity is an integral part of the study of crime, together with its natural science and human science components.
Research follows 7 distinct themes:Detection, reconstruction, association and evaluation, investigation, understanding crime, decision-making, and the development and validation of strategies:
1) Detection and recognition: aim to improve simultaneously the ability to detect the presence of latent traces and to recognise what best explains a presence or an action. They necessarily combine the development of new techniques and integration of the latter in a global approach to the field of investigation, the basis of which is yet to be consolidated.
2) Reconstruction: through reasoning that is essentially abductive at the outset, traces make it possible to imagine what happened. This attempt at reconstruction is generally part of a hypothetical-deductive approach involving the development and testing of scenarios. However it also entails a multitude of cognitive pitfalls which can be overcome by adopting a scientific approach.
3) Association and evaluation: the legal expert is responsible for evaluating and combining clues, or interpreting possible activities in the light of collected evidence. One dominant and cohesive movement advocates the use of probabilities (Bayes’ theorum) to carry out this evaluation, making it possible within a formal framework to express the uncertainties inherent in this type of question.
4) Investigation: The criminal investigation seeks to understand singular events, identify those involved, and outline their roles in accordance with a set of rules. Reasoning leads in two directions. Evidence gathered at the scene indicates what happened and helps to describe the relevant entities, or points directly to a series of individuals and objects. Conversely, reasoning often starts with groups of people, seeks to understand the relations between them and examines potential links with activities. The quantities of information that need to be managed and interpreted are sometimes large, requiring the construction of databases and the development of means to visualise complex information.
5) Understanding: Material traces are elementary units of information relating to an activity that takes place in an immediate physical and social environment, and are primarily concerned with security. Hypothetically, their use should therefore extend beyond the legal system, to the realm of information in general and the study of phenomena. It is here that forensic science and criminology come together to study security problems in the light of new information sets. The constitution of relevant databases is moreover a major feature of research in criminology.
6) Decisions: Those who work in the legal system take decisions at different levels. The distribution of roles and responsibilities follows procedures and forms of organisation which sometimes vary greatly from one jurisdiction to another. Wrong choices can ultimately lead to judicial errors. Since decisions are made on the basis of uncertain and incomplete information, the risk of error must be evaluated within well-regulated formal frameworks.
7) Development and testing of strategies: Strategies used to prevent danger or fight crime are constantly being revised according to new knowledge, assessments of their effectiveness, and sensibilities and perceptions within particular contexts. For example, munitions issued to police officers or the trust that can be placed in biometric identity controls are the subject of heated arguments that systematic research can place on a more rational level. Similarly, in a context often fraught with emotion, research in the field of the police and justice offers the means to adapt systems, to evaluate their results and how they work, and also to reflect on their underlying purpose.
该学院在法律实践的主要领域进行了激烈的研究活动，特别是在其各个中心和研究所内。学院的出版物以其科学严谨性，原创性和对世界的开放态度(外国立法，比较，欧洲和国际法)，未来(环境法，信息和传播法等)及相关领域(复杂的跨学科问题的跨学科项目)。学院动态的研究方法也受到墙内每年辩护的博士论文的数量和质量以及年轻研究人员参加不同会议或研讨会及其重要出版物合作的重视。
犯罪学研究：刑事司法学院(ESC)提供卓越的多学科教育。研究为这种多样性以犯罪活动的兴趣其痕迹和定义犯罪行为和犯罪后果、调查、法律和程序，其在安全和预防方面的后果示威证据最终对犯罪的后果和他们的惩罚和反省。这种多学科性是犯罪研究的一个组成部分以及其自然科学和人类科学组成部分。
研究有7个不同的主题：
检测、重建、关联和评估、调查、了解犯罪、决策和策略的制定和验证：
1)检测和识别：旨在同时提高检测潜在痕迹的存在的能力，并认识到什么最好地解释了存在或动作。它们必然将新技术的发展与后者的整合融入全球调查领域，其基础尚未得到巩固。
2)重建：通过推理本质上是在一开始就引人注目的，痕迹可以想象发生了什么。这种重建尝试通常是涉及开发和测试场景的假设演绎方法的一部分。然而，它也带来了许多认知陷阱，可以通过采取科学的方法来克服。
3)协会和评估：法律专家负责评估和组合线索，或根据收集的证据解释可能的活动。一个主导和一致的运动主张使用概率(贝叶斯理论)来进行这一评估，使其在正式框架内可以表达这种类型的问题固有的不确定性。
4)调查：刑事调查旨在了解奇特事件，识别有关事件，并按照一套规则概述其作用。推论在两个方向。现场聚集的证据表明发生了什么事情，有助于描述相关实体，或直接指向一系列个人和物件。相反，推理往往是从一群人开始，力图了解他们之间的关系，并考察与活动的潜在联系。需要管理和解释的信息量有时很大，需要建立数据库和开发可视化复杂信息的手段。
5)了解：物质痕迹是与在即时身体和社会环境中发生的活动相关的基本信息单元，主要涉及安全。因此，它们的使用应该超越法律制度，扩大到一般的信息领域和现象的研究。在这里，法医科学和犯罪学汇聚在一起，根据新的信息来研究安全问题。相关数据库的构成是犯罪学研究的一个主要特征。
6)决定：在法律制度上工作的人员在不同层次上做出决定。角色和责任的分配遵循有时从一个管辖区到另一个管辖区有很大差异的组织程序和形式。错误的选择最终可能导致司法错误。由于决策是在不确定和不完整的信息的基础上作出的，所以错误的风险必须在规范的正式框架内进行评估。
7)战略的制定和测试：根据新知识对其有效性的评估，特定情境下的感性和观念，不断修订用于防范危机或打击犯罪的战略。例如，向警察发放的弹药或可以放置在生物特征身份控制中的信托是有系统的研究可以放在更合理的层面上的激烈争论的话题。同样，在经常充满情感的情况下，警察和司法领域的研究提供了适应系统的手段，评估其结果及其工作方式，并反思其根本目的。
研究领域三：地球科学与环境
In the realm of international academic policy, our Faculty undoubtedly offers one of the most attractive projects; indeed what could be more important, interesting and fascinating than the study of the Earth’s complexity and the relations of humanity with this environment in its cross-disciplinary dimension?In view of our society’s increasing vulnerability in the face of natural threats, and growing pressure on ecological and hydrological systems due to global warming and the quickening pace of urbanisation, it is clear that an integrative vision, rooted in particular in the environmental and Earth sciences, will grow in importance as time goes by, not least because of the impact it may have on our choice of society and political decision-making.By grouping in a single organisational unit the natural and human sciences taught at UNIL in various disciplines, the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment embodies these challenges in a highly objective way. Few other Universities have hitherto had the vision or the courage to do likewise. Their number includes several scientific heavyweights such as Columbia University with its Earth Institute, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) with its Competence Center Environment and Sustainability (CCES).This cross-disciplinary Faculty project rests explicitly on the classic Humboldtian ideal of academic freedom and excellence, and involves regulated interaction and exchange between different scientific disciplines embracing a minimum of shared values. The latter, in our view, are as follows:excellence and integrity in research and its communication;respect for the diversity of scientific principles and ideas;altruistic cooperation and the free exchange of ideas;accountability to all academic partners and to the general public.These cross-disciplinary and in all likelihood universal values are – implicitly or explicitly – shared by virtually all leading research bodies. By consistently adhering to them, it should be possible to ensure not only a high level of university research, but also, thanks to ever more integrated study plans, more fluid communication between the different disciplines represented in the Faculty.The Faculty seeks to abide by these fundamental values through its determination, in its evaluation and recruitment policy, to pursue an uncompromising strategy of academic excellence.
在国际学术政策领域，我校无疑是最有吸引力的项目之一，确实比研究地球复杂性和人类与这个环境在其跨学科层面的关系更重要，有趣和迷人?鉴于我们的社会面对自然威胁日益增加的脆弱性，以及由于全球变暖和城市化进程加快，对生态和水文系统的压力日益增加，显而易见的是，一个根植于环境与地球科学随着时间的推移，将会越来越重要，尤其是因为它对社会的选择和政治决策的影响。通过在一个组织单位中分组在洛桑大学在各个学科教授的自然和人文科学，地质科学与环境学院以高度客观的方式体现了这些挑战。迄今为止，还有其他一些大学也有这样的愿景或勇气。他们的数量包括几个科学的重量级，如哥伦比亚大学与地球研究所，瑞士联邦理工学院苏黎世(ETHZ)及其能力中心环境与可持续发展(CCES)。这个跨学科的教师项目明确地依靠经典的洪堡理想的学术自由和卓越，并涉及不同科学学科之间的监管互动和交流，拥有最小的共同价值观。我们认为，后者如下：卓越和诚信的研究及其沟通;尊重科学原理和思想的多样性;利他合作和自由交流思想;问责制对所有的学术合作伙伴和广大市民。几乎所有领先的研究机构，这些交叉学科和所有可能的普遍价值观 - 隐含或明确地共享。坚持不懈地坚持不懈地努力，不仅要确保高校的大学研究水平，还要有更多的综合性学习计划，不同学科的不同学科之间更加流畅的交流。该学院力求通过其评估和招聘政策的决心，遵守这些基本价值观，追求卓越的学术策略
研究领域四：商业与经济研究
HEC Lausanne is one of Europe’s foremost teaching and research centres in the fields of management and economics. It stands out by the importance it attaches to research on fundamental questions that will shape the world of tomorrow. The development of knowledge and the introduction of new ways of thinking are instrumental in guaranteeing a high quality education, consistently at the forefront, that will benefit future leaders.What will the world of tomorrow be like?Understanding the world in which we live, analysing the trends of our time and forecasting their impact on individuals, businesses and authorities are among the themes arising from the far-reaching questions posed by researchers at HEC Lausanne.Research at HEC Lausanne falls principally into two categories:Analysis of the major trends that characterise the economic and social environment of businesses - Globalisation, the place of the state, the development of financial markets, information technologies and terrorism are pointers to an emerging new international order, to which businesses must find an adequate responseA better understanding of the role of the individual within this environment and within businesses – Individuals, their decision-making methods and behavioural preferences, are central to the changes that are occurring and will determine the necessary responsesThese topics require a multidisciplinary approach and in this respect HEC Lausanne has a strong hand, with research teams that include in their ranks many researchers with backgrounds in economics, psychology and sociology.Research teams,HEC Lausanne has more than 300 researchers, including some of the most prominent specialists in their fields. Their studies make a significant contribution to the scientific and economic debate and are published in leading international scientific journals.The exceptional conditions and framework offered by HEC Lausanne stimulate the development of new projects and each year attract individuals from all over the world, enhancing the quality of research teams with their knowledge and culture.Research is conducted within twelve departments and institutes: finance, information systems, applied macroeconomics, health economics and management, actuarial sciences, econometrics and political economy, organisational behaviour, accounting and control, marketing, operations, strategy, corporate law and taxation.
洛桑大学是欧洲最重要的管理和经济学教学和研究中心之一。它突出了研究将会塑造未来世界的基本问题的重要性。知识的发展和引入新的思维方式，有助于保证高素质的教育，始终如一地领先于未来的领导者。明天的世界会如何?理解我们生活的世界分析我们时代的趋势并预测其对个人、企业和当局的影响是洛桑港灯研究人员提出的深远的问题引起的主题。HEC洛桑研究主要分为两类：分析企业经济和社会环境特征的主要趋势 -全球化，国家的地位，金融市场的发展，信息技术和恐怖主义是指向新兴的新的国际秩序，企业必须找到适当的反应。更好地了解个人在这种环境和企业内的作用 - 个人、决策方法和行为偏好、是发生变化的核心并将决定必要的反应这些议题需要采取多学科的方法，在这方面，洛杉矶HEC有强大的实力、研究团队包括许多具有经济学、心理学和社会学背景的研究人员。研究团队、HEC洛桑拥有300多名研究人员，其中包括一些最著名的专家。他们的研究对科学和经济辩论作出了重大贡献，并在国际领先科学期刊上发表。HEC洛桑提供的特殊条件和框架刺激了新项目的开发，每年吸引来自世界各地的人员，以其知识和文化提升研究团队的素质。研究在十二个部门和机构内进行：金融、信息系统、应用宏观经济学、卫生经济与管理、精算科学、计量经济学和政治经济学、组织行为学、会计与控制、市场营销、经营、战略、法律和税务。
研究领域五：艺术
As in all human and hard sciences, research in the Arts arises from the encounter between an object (a document, a work, a fact, an observation, data, etc) and a point of view (a clarification, a perspective, a theory, a model, etc). It seeks ultimately to comprehend languages, cultures and civilisations through objects such as texts, images and other material traces.The nature of objects researched in the Arts encourages the meeting and interaction of points of view, rather than their mutual exclusion: a point of view may in turn become an object, and be analysed from an entirely different angle. We may for example investigate the history of economic theories, or work on the rhetoric of histories of economic theories - questions that the econometrist in search of a true economic theory will not ask.The multiplication of perspectives leads therefore to the combinative expansion of research subjects and associated disciplines, pursued by many small-sized teams. This variety encourages interdisciplinary and specialist approaches, and a number of Centres are dedicated to this goal; it exerts a decisive influence on the content of study plans and their constant updating; it explains the high level of differentiation between Bachelor and Master programmes from one Arts faculty to another, and the difficulty of classifying, in a unified and systematic way, research in the Arts as a whole.
Very open from a methodological point of view, revisiting traditional methods and taking advantage of new technologies, research in the Arts gives pride of place to reflexivity. Recognising the compositional nature of its subjects, it pays scant heed to the transparency of signs. It aims to convince by accumulating facts, rather than prove by observation alone; it seeks to understand rather than explain.Often useful (e.g. the practice of forms and uses of communication), often aesthetically striking (e.g. literature, history of art, cinema), research in the Arts seeks above all to adopt a rigorous approach, academically independent and critical, rooted in a humanist perspective. Its success lies in its ability to reach out and influence other research or the public, beyond the here and now.
在所有人类和硬科学中，艺术的研究来源于对象(文件、作品、事实、观察、数据等)与观点(澄清、观点、一个理论、一个模型等)。它最终通过诸如文本、图像和其他材料痕迹的对象来理解语言、文化和文明。在艺术研究的对象的性质鼓励会议和观点的相互作用而不是它们的相互排斥：一个观点可能反过来成为一个对象，并从完全不同的角度进行分析。例如，我们可以调查经济理论的历史，或研究经济理论历史的修辞 - 经济学家寻求真实的经济理论不会问的问题。观点的乘积导致许多小型团队追求的研究课题和相关学科的组合扩张。这种品种鼓励跨学科和专门的方法，一些中心致力于这一目标，它对学习计划的内容及其不断更新产生决定性影响，它解释了从一个艺术系到另一个艺术系的学士和硕士课程之间的高水平分化，以及统一和系统地分类整个艺术研究的难度。从方法论的角度来看，从传统方法的重新审视和利用新技术开始，艺术研究给予了反思的地位。认识到其主题的组成性质，它不注意标志的透明度。它旨在通过积累事实来说服，而不是单独观察证明; 它试图理解而不是解释。通常有用(例如通信的形式和用途的实践)，通常在美学上(例如文学，艺术史，电影)，艺术研究中首先采取严格的方法，学术上独立和批判，植根于人文主义透视。它的成功在于其能够接触和影响其他研究或公众，超越了现在和现在。
研究领域六：社会政治学研究
Research carried on in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences focuses on theoretical and empirical issues of relevance for both fundamentals and applications. The work involves multiple partners, both local and international.In their different projects, the researchers are interested in the study of the complexity and challenges of contemporary life, in their historical, sociological, political, cultural, anthropological and psychological aspects. They rely on a variety of disciplinary perspectives and paradigms to make significant contributions to the improvement of the psychological, social, cultural, political and environmental quality of life.Social Sciences are mainly represented by sociology, anthropology and social policy. Areas of research interest are cross-disciplinary and include culture and communication, identity and social relations, life paths, gender studies, anthropology of health, economic development, social protection and inequality, as well as education and learning.Research in Sport Sciences is carried on in three areas: humanities, social sciences, and life and health sciences. In the humanities area, research focuses on the dynamics of organisation, disorganisation and reorganisation of psychological activity in the fields of sports and artistic endeavour, with the aim of achieving the best level of performance while preserving the practitioners' integrity. Research in social sciences focuses on globalisation processes in sports and, in particular, on their consequences for the migration of sportspeople. Other projects focus on careers in sports and their ethical dimensions, with particular regard to doping or eating disorders. A historical perspective is developed concerning how theories and practices of physical activities arise and spread. Research in social sciences also normally covers the management and governance of sports and Olympic organisations. In the field of life sciences, reflection concerns, in particular, the optimisation of the effects of sports practice on physical skills and cardiovascular, neuromuscular and neurophysiological functions. They cover not only ordinary physical practice in sports but also sporting performance at the highest level.Research in Psychological Sciences is carried on in all the major areas of the discipline (psychology of counselling and career guidance, cognitive psychology, social psychology, health psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, etc.) with a particular interest in applied aspects. The areas of research, viewed from a variety of epistemological and methodological perspectives, are extremely diverse and include, among others, learning processes, interpersonal and intergroup relations, identity, educational and healthcare situations, normal and atypical development throughout life, or psychopathology.
Research in Political Science is structured around several specialised units working on the analysis of governance and public action, collective action, globalisation, the history of political and economic thought or local political life. The Institute of Political, Historical and International Studies is strongly engaged in several projects with the support of the most important research funding agencies, at national and international level. It also houses a major documentation centre devoted to political life in Switzerland as a whole, but with a particular emphasis on the French-speaking region.The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, in partnership with the University of Geneva, is currently the seat of a national centre of competence in research, LIVES, examining vulnerabilities in life paths.
在社会政治学院进行的研究重点是理论和经验问题与基础和应用相关。这项工作涉及本地和国际的多个合作伙伴。在不同的项目中，研究人员有兴趣研究当代生活的复杂性和挑战，包括他们的历史、社会学、政治、文化、人类学和心理方面。依靠各种纪律观点和范式，为提高心理、社会、文化、政治和环境的生活质量作出重大贡献。社会科学主要以社会学，人类学和社会政策为代表。研究兴趣领域是跨学科的包括文化和沟通、身份和社会关系、生活道路、性别研究、人类健康、经济发展、社会保护和不平等以及教育和学习。研究运动科学在人文社会科学，生命与健康科学三个方面进行。在人文领域研究侧重于运动和艺术活动领域的组织、组织和心理活动重组的动态目的是在保持实践者的完整性的同时，达到最佳水平。社会科学研究的重点是体育运动的全球化进程，特别是运动员移民的后果。其他项目的重点是体育运动及其伦理层面，特别是兴奋剂或饮食失调。制定了有关体育活动的理论与实践如何发展和传播的历史观。社会科学研究也通常涉及体育与奥运组织的管理和治理。在生命科学领域，反思关注，特别是运动实践对身体技能和心血管，神经肌肉和神经生理功能的影响的优化。它们不仅涵盖体育运动中的普通体育锻炼，还涵盖了最高水平的运动表现。研究心理科学在学科(咨询和职业指导、认知心理学、社会心理学、健康心理学、发展心理学、临床心理学、心理学等)的所有主要领域获得应用方面的特别关注进行的。从各种认识论和方法学角度来看，研究领域是非常多样化的其中包括学习过程人际关系和组间关系、身份、教育和医疗状况、生命中的正常和非典型发展或精神病理学。研究政治学是围绕治理和公共行动、集体行动、全球化、政治和经济思想或当地政治生活的历史的分析工作的多个专业单位的结构。政治、历史和国际研究所在国家和国际层面最重要的研究基金机构的支持下积极参与多个项目。它还设有一个专门用于整个瑞士政治生活的主要文献中心，特别强调法语区域。社会与政治学院与日内瓦大学合作，目前正在研究国家能力研究中心，研究生活中的脆弱性。
研究领域七：宗教神学与科学研究
The Faculty of Theology and Sciences of Religions seeks excellence in research at an international level.
Researchers at the Institute of Religions, Cultures and Modernity (IRCM) study religions as products of culture, examining them from a broad comparative-historical perspective and according to an order of theoretical reflection. The research horizon encompasses European modernity to the present day. The methods used are history of religions (Rome and Chicago schools), cultural history, historical anthropology, sociology of culture and social anthropology.The main task of the Institute of Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions (ISSRC) is to analyse religions in the contemporary world from the viewpoint of the social sciences. The main disciplines involved are the sociology of religions, the psychology of religion and the social sciences of migrations. The ISSRC is also home to the Observatory of Religions in Switzerland.The study field of the French-speaking Swiss Institute of Biblical Sciences (IRSB) covers all Jewish and Christian literatures of Antiquity and more particularly biblical and apocryphal writings. Since its foundation, the IRSB has developed two fields of competence: firstly, the editing and commenting of Christian apocryphal manuscripts; secondly, the study of the origin of texts contained in Jewish and Christian canons from the perspective of social, political and cultural history.
宗教神学与科学学院在国际上寻求卓越的研究。
三个研究机构组织研究：研究人员在宗教、文化研究所和现代研究宗教作为一种文化产品，从广泛的比较历史的角度审查他们，并根据理论反思的顺序。研究视野包括欧洲现代性至今。使用的方法是宗教历史(罗马和芝加哥学派、文化史、历史人类学、文化社会学和社会人类学。当代宗教社会科学研究所(ISSRC)的主要任务是从社会科学的角度分析当代世界的宗教。涉及的主要学科是宗教社会学，宗教心理学和迁移社会科学。ISSRC也是瑞士宗教观察所的所在地。法语瑞士圣经科学研究所(IRSB)的研究领域涵盖了所有犹太人和基督教文学的古代，更特别是圣经和无知的着作。自成立以来，IRSB发展了两个领域：第一，编辑和评论基督教宣传手稿;其次从社会、政治和文化史的角度研究犹太人和基督教教条的起源。
