Each of the research centres is dedicated to specific themes, which, when taken together, provide a good indication of the current research profile of the School of Humanities.

1. ACASA
   The Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology is a research and teaching center in the fields of Ancient Studies, Latin and Greek and Archeology, a joint center of VU Amsterdam and the University of Amsterdam.
2. ARTTIS-VU
   ARTTIS-VU stands for 'Amsterdam Research on Talk & Text in Institutional Settings, VU Amsterdam', a group of researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities concerned with talk and text in institutional settings.
3. Centre for Global English
   The Centre for Global English provides for world-wide access to English education and creates a better understanding and appreciation of the different Englishes spoken in the world.
4. Centrum Èthos, onderwijs, onderzoek en debat over maatschappelijke transformaties
5. CLTL
   The Computational Lexicology & Terminology Lab (CLTL) models the understanding of natural language through computers with a central role for knowledge sources such as lexicons, ontologies and terminology. CLTL is part of the Department of Language and Communication and of the Network Institute.
6. HDC Centre for Religious History
   The HDC Centre for Religious History is the platform for research, education, and valorisation in the field of the history of religion at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
7. HDC|Protestant Heritage collection
   The HDC Centre for Religious History within FSG is affiliated with the HDC|Protestant Heritage collection within the UBVU. This collection (formerly: Historical Documentation Centre for the History of Dutch Protestantism after 1800) includes archives of many individuals and institutions from the Protestant Christian world of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
8. Language and Hearing Center Amsterdam – LHCA
   The LHCA is a collaboration of staff members from VU Amsterdam and VUmc doing research in Language and Hearing, especially on the hearing and speech perception and language development of severely hearing impaired or deaf children.
9. PAN: Portable Antiquities of the Netherlands
10. Peshitta Institute
11. Paul van Moorsel Centre
12. Simon Stevin Center for the History of Science and the Humanities
    The Stevin Centre for History of Science and Humanities is a collaboration of staff members from different faculties of VU Amsterdam. The Stevin Centre is a platform for research in the history of science and the humanities at VU Amsterdam and it organizes workshops, colloquia and seminars.