Welcome to The Center for Urban Transformations!
The Center for Urban Transformations aims to foster the interdisciplinary capacities needed to co-produce innovative research agendas that advance sustainability transformations. Students will engage in co-producing research ideas and questions across disciplines and the academic-practice divide in close collaboration with community partners to make tangible, real-world impacts in our communities.
Each of the program’s activities is informed by experience with metro-Atlanta-based urban sustainability projects to:
- foster inclusive relationships with community partners;
- develop capacities for collaborative research;
- develop knowledge on the theory and practice of urban sustainability; and
- encourage graduate students to generate transformative interdisciplinary research.
Graduate Fellowship
Application – Open Now!
FEATURED PARTNERS
Atlanta Transformative Leaders Series
Researcher-Practitioner Network
The Center’s programming will augment initiatives to engage and sustain the involvement of college students and young professionals in the work of urban sustainability by connecting graduate students with peers and potential mentors in researcher-practitioner networks active in Atlanta, including RCE Greater Atlanta.
Atlanta Transformative Leaders Series
The Atlanta Transformative Leaders Series (ATLS) highlights the efforts of Atlanta-based individuals and organizations in advancing research, policy and solutions to bolster Atlanta’s resilience to climate events and build a better future for all Atlantans.
Community Projects
The Center will support students in conducting transdisciplinary research projects in consultation with one or more of the Center’s community partners to co-produce solutions to urban sustainability problems affecting the Center’s partners and members of the metro-Atlanta community.