Research and Scholarship at Fielding
Fielding Graduate University researchers are scholar-practitioners who advance scholarship in the interest of practical applications to make our world a better place.
As scholars, they seek to create new knowledge across a broad range of pressing social, environmental, psychological, political, and organizational needs.
As practitioners, they apply their own and others’ insights to directly impact individuals and communities locally to globally.
Participating actively in the cycle of observing the practical needs of society and community, designing research to develop new ideas and practice to meet those needs, and putting that new knowledge into practical application is the hallmark of how Fielding faculty, students, and alumni operate in the world.
Community Action Research
New knowledge for practical application is the Fielding difference.
Kettering Foundation and A Race Relations Study
In partnership with the Kettering Foundation, Fielding researchers are examining race relations in the United States. The outcomes of this work will be used to create a National Issues Forum Issue Guide for use in nationwide classrooms and communities.
The Jame Irvine Foundation
With a two-year grant from The James Irvine Foundation, Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation researchers designed a curriculum for professionals in the fields of program evaluation and organizational development that would integrated their skills in support of leadership and system change.
Creative Research
Supporting Men’s Work for Healing, Development, and Social Transformation is a community practice project that focuses on building a community of men at Fielding across race and sexual orientation in order to strengthen men’s development for empowering and inclusive leadership. It also is intended to create a national and international network of others engaging in this work.
Community Research
Intergroup Dialogue: Cruzando Puentes (Crossing Bridges). One of the busiest freeway interchanges in the world crosses Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, Calif. A densely populated, high-crime, low-income area, it’s rich in history and culture. Puentes engages communities to address the core issues of violence and its consequences by forging partnerships and increasing opportunities for employment, education, and civic engagement.
University of the District of Columbia
Fielding’s partnership with the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) allows Fielding faculty and students to connect with a major urban university to investigate and solve issues facing cities and urban areas around the country and around the world. Students in the UDC-Fielding doctoral program in Urban Leadership and Entrepreneurship have opportunities to study and address such areas as urban sustainability, urban governance, and urban education issues
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