Ashoka Changemaker Summit Helps Weave Our Future
The following is a blog post by Dr. Laura Murphy: Changemakers are already (re)making the future. Check out the 2021 Ashoka Changemaker Summit, “a global milestone to share cutting-edge ideas…
Dismantling the Tennis Industry in the U.S.: Designing a New, Inclusive System – “Pluriversal Tennis”
In the summer Dr. Anna Monhartova presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. The title of Dr. Monhartova's work is Dismantling the Tennis Industry in the U.S.:…
New Taylor Center publication from the Research & Scholarship team brings complexity thinking to sports-based youth development organizations aiming for system change
In an article for the Journal of Strategic Innovation & Sustainability titled “The Value of an Ecosystem-Based Approach to Organizational Sustainability: The Case of a Hybrid Sports-Based Youth Development Social…
Insights from ISIRC following Ida
In this post, we are reporting out on the International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 2021. ISIRC is normally a major fall event for the research & scholarship team, but given Hurricane Ida, dealing with…
Taylor Center Releases New Monograph: A Map of the Landscape of Social Innovation Theories
If you are curious to learn more about the field of ‘social innovation’ and make sense of divergent perspectives, arguments, paradigms, and language surrounding this theme, the Taylor Provocation #3…
Art Museums and Social Change with Megan Flattley
Hello again! Megan Flattley, 2020-2021 Taylor Center Research and Scholarship Graduate Assistant and art historian here, in my previous blog posts I introduced my own research on art and social…
Taylor Center Hiring Research & Scholarship Graduate Assistants for the 2021-2022 Academic Year
The Taylor Center is hiring Graduate Assistants in Research and Scholarship for Social Innovation to start in Fall 2021. This is a paid position to support social innovation/changemaking research/scholarship programming…
Taylor Center Co-Organizes Conversation on Applying a Social Innovation Lens to Community-Engaged Scholarship
On Friday, April 9, 2021, the Taylor Center partnered with the Tulane Center for Public Service and the Tulane University Mellon Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship to host a panel of Mellon Program alumni to…
Social Innovation and Community-Engaged Scholarship: What are they?
Hello, it’s Megan Flattley again! (Ph.D. candidate in Art History/Latin American Studies, former Mellon fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship (CES), and current Research & Scholarship Graduate Assistant for the Taylor Center).…
Introduction to Social Innovation with Taylor Graduate Assistant Megan Flattley
Are you a Tulane University scholar struggling to understand what the nascent field of social innovation is about? Have you seen or heard of the Taylor Center and wondered what…