Taylor offers opportunities for master’s and doctoral students from any discipline and department to learn changemaking skills to bring to their practice, research and scholarship.
- Learn the basics of design thinking, explore social innovation and changemaking theory, and more.
- Students from other universities are welcome to join many of the non-curricular opportunities.
Graduate Student Opportunities
Awards
Students traveling internationally, should please visit the travel protocols webpage for more information. The Taylor Center awards financial support to assist Tulane students and faculty in their development as changemakers. Taylor funding is an opportunity for Tulane students and faculty…
Changemaker Institute
The Changemaker Institute (CI) supports budding social entrepreneurs who are interested in building a business or program with social or environmental impact. Download the 2024/2025 CI Application (Due Oct 15) Changemakers (n) – People who use their skills, expertise, gifts, and…
Changemaker Institute
The Changemaker Institute (CI) supports budding social entrepreneurs who are interested in building a business with social or environmental impact. Changemakers (n) – People who use their skills, expertise, gifts, and power in a way that creates positive social change and…
Conversations in Social Innovation
Conversations in Social Innovation allow participants to connect their research with the pursuit of social innovations. Taylor aims to promote networking, explore pathways in social innovation research, and advance our social innovation research collaborations among the center, Tulane, local universities, and community partners.…
Design Dialogues
Design Dialogues is an engaging speaker series that showcases the application of design thinking in the Gulf South and greater New Orleans area. The Design Thinking Team has taken great care in curating a diverse lineup of speakers, offering attendees…
Design Justice Happy Hour
Join us for a free, casual happy hour with lightly facilitated discussion and snacks. This is an opportunity to meet likeminded changemakers and grow your network WHO SHOULD ATTEND DESIGN JUSTICE HAPPY HOUR? Anyone working in social justice, social…
Design Thinking 101
Each semester, The Taylor Center hosts interactive sessions that will introduce you to the tools and mindsets of design thinking (DT), a problem-solving approach anyone can use to make change in their community. Together we will practice: putting people at…
Design Thinking Breakfast October 2020: Jacinda Walker
“Are you smarter than a fifth grader?” The October 23, 2020 design thinking breakfast featured Jacinda Walker of designExplorr. She challenged adults to think about designing for a user with similar tools she uses for introducing design thinking to students.…
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Taylor offers multiple programming opportunities for Tulane students, faculty and staff, and community members to learn the mindsets and methods of design thinking (human-centered design). A design thinking mindset puts people at the heart of understanding, experimenting and acting when…
Design Thinking Gumbo
An Introduction to Design Research Methods Design Thinking Gumbo is a series of one-hour workshops on a variety of methods that can be used in design research. Each workshop will introduce a method, share examples of its use in other…
Design Thinking Gumbo: Building Rapport in a Virtual World
February 23, 2021, 6 - 7 pm Building rapport in a virtual world gives you the tools to develop rapport and empathy quickly in a virtual and remote setting. The goal of this workshop was to learn not only general,…
Fast 48
The FAST 48 is a three day weekend training that teaches the basics of human-centered design for social impact. Participants learn via short cycles of individual and group practice, including direct work in the community. Participants can include graduate students,…
Internships
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we encourage students to pursue remote internships. Use these sites to find remote opportunities in your field: Tulane's Virtual Experience Program covintern.com Use these resources to identify internships, fellowships, and jobs with social innovation, social entrepreneurship,…
Research and Scholarship
The Taylor Research and Scholarship team supports researchers working to advance knowledge and understanding of the fields of social innovation and changemaking. Our Work Our work consists of connecting and cultivating a community of changemakers at regular writing and research-themed social…
Reserve Taylor Space
The Taylor Center has two spaces available for reservationsSpaces Available Taylor Conference Room Conference room can accommodate up to 8 people. Design Thinking Classroom Design thinking classroom can accommodate up to 50 people. Who Can Reserve the Space SISE instructors,…
Student Employment
Taylor student employees are paraprofessionals who are responsible for creating and implementing Taylor programs and increasing campus and community awareness of Taylor. Eligibility Students must commit to working with Taylor for a full academic year. Must be in good academic…
Taylor 10 Week
Taylor 10 Week Taylor 10 Week is a celebration of the remarkable journey embarked upon by the team at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. Celebrate a Decade of Impact Since 2014, the Phyllis M.…
Taylor Your Life for Grads
Based on the popular undergraduate course, Taylor Your Life, Taylor Your Life for Graduate and Professional Students is designed to support students in designing a fulfilling graduate school experience and to support students in gaining more clarify and direction and…
Taylor-Advised Student Organizations and Groups
The Taylor Center advises and supports many student organizations and student-initiated groups that help participants develop their skills as changemakers. Design for America Tulane Design for America Tulane is an interdisciplinary group of students working together using human-centered design to create…
Virtual Workshop: Using design thinking to shape discussions around Coronavirus
How can global citizens engage in meaningful conversations around the coronavirus? Monday, April 20, 2020 at 6pm CST, attend our free workshop: "Using design thinking to shape discussions around COVID-19 in New Orleans." This virtual workshop will focus on the…
Additional Opportunities
GCHB 6700, Social Innovation Tools for Public health Professionals. Spring, Thursdays, 5:30-8 PM. Description: This course offers MPH (and other graduate) students a toolkit of human-centered design (HCD), systems-led leadership, complex systems thinking, and related social innovation to prepare the graduates to address complex societal problems while working together with others, and in domestic or international settings. Training in design-thinking for social impact is offered via hands-on workshops (the Fast 48), complemented by a theoretical framing and examples from public health. Students gain a deeper understanding of how change happens, and skills for understanding and addressing “wicked” problems. Students learn to map complex systems, identify entry-points, and reframe problems to work more creatively with community stakeholders.
NOTE: Students are required to join the Fast 48 weekend — see posted dates at https://taylor.tulane.edu/activities/design-thinking/. A $60 fee covers food and materials for the Fast 48.
Who can take this: The course is open to non-SPHTM graduate students, but be sure to check with your program in advance to get it pre-approved as an elective.
Questions?
- Interested in collaborating or learning more about graduate student opportunities?
- Email us at taylor@tulane.edu.
