Activity Areas

This SETx-UIFL purposely centers equity and community engagement throughout its internal processes – to foster these principles across disciplines and generations of scholars – and its interaction with studied communities. The team conducts outreach, engagement, and training in six integrated areas:

1. Cross-disciplinary learning,
2. Team science competencies including interdisciplinary collaboration,
3. Complex problem-solving competencies including participatory, stakeholder-engaged research,
4. Learning through experiences and applications
5. Digital learning environments, and
6. Informal learning/outreach.

• Activity area 1: Bring the SETx-UIFL team together for shared learning, research, and engagement processes and build partnerships across different institutions.
• Activity area 2: Co-develop methods across disciplines and with community participants to foster partnerships between institutions and communities.
• Activity area 3: Center Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for all work that is undertaken and for every researcher connected to the SETx-UIFL to understand their positionality and how it will differ from the experiences of those we are studying.