Since the early 1990s Hana Urbancová has been doing research in the field of traditional song culture in Slovakia, Central European comparative studies, music of ethnic minorities, historical sources of folk music, theory and history of ethnomusicology. She has published a large number of monographs, scientific studies and texts in this field.
She is a member of professional organisations and associations: the Slovak Musicological Society, the Ethnological Society of Slovakia at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the Society of Authors of Scientific and Professional Literature, the International Council for Traditional Music, the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, the Society for Ethnomusicology.
She completed short-term study stays in Budapest (1993), Warsaw (1994, 2012), Zagreb (1995). She has lectured at scientific events abroad in Prague (1993), Vienna (1994, 2007), Tešín, Poland (1994), Brno (1995, 2004, 2006, 2007), Békéscsaba (1996), Ljubljana (2000, 2001), Münster (2002), Graz-Seggau (2004), Kiev (2005), New York (2008), Stockholm (2008), Kutná Hora (2008). She has been teaching at the Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2000 - 2007 as an external lecturer, 2009 as a guest lecturer), at the Department of Music Education of the Faculty of Education of the Comenius University in Bratislava (2005 - 2011 as an external lecturer), at the Faculty of Music and Dance of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (since 2009 as an external lecturer).