Advancing transformations to more sustainable and equitable futures. Read more.
Supporting innovative, social-science-led research on transformations to sustainability.
Sharing articles, newsletters, videos and other resources on social transformations.
Fostering knowledge exchange and building research skills around the world.
We aim to create a ‘Transformations Knowledge Base’ around social transformation that can inform the development of solutions to sustainability challenges for the long term.
The Transformations community brings together a growing network of researchers and practitioners who work towards social transformations in sustainability contexts.
Programme outputs include workshop documentation, webinars and written syntheses of knowledge.
The programme funded 38 seed projects and three Transformative Knowledge Networks. Read more.
By Hannah Moersberger and Dylan McGarry This post also appears on the Future Earth blog. “We are longing for mentors that take care of us as human beings; mentors that act like parents, not like political dictators.” These are the words of Kuda Mudokwani from Zimbabwe, reflecting on struggles and longings of early career change-makers […]
A unique research school beginning this week in Colombia brings together early-career research activists and grassroots change-makers from civil society who are working towards socio-ecological transformations, in order to discuss and develop emergent ways of approaching transformations research. Named ‘Living Aulas’ (living classrooms), the aim is to create a space for early-career researchers and change-makers […]
Zimbabwean farmers creating new markets via creative solidarity relations; South African farmers crossing boundaries between college, youth groups and farmers’ associations; Ethiopian communities re-framing power relations as they protect their sacred natural sites, and university students and administrators hosting a funeral for e-waste on their campus. What do these all have in common? Qualities and […]