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RESEARCH AT IIESL

We generate, debate, and disseminate critical, interdisciplinary research on inclusive economies and sustainable livelihoods, including through research on local and regional economic development by the IIESL Director and our postdoctoral fellows; engagement with visiting scholars, who bring international perspectives on community wealth-building and institutional change; research collaborations with other U of T scholars and centres; discussions and new book events on campus; and our Inclusive Economies Working Group.

Research collaborations  

We undertake several collaborations with researchers, faculty and institutes across U of T, including:

  • Automating Extraction: The socio-material impacts of AI-driven material discovery (learn more)
  • Change Stories (learn more)
  • Cycling Economies: Mapping livelihoods and economic worlds around the bicycle in Bogotá (learn more)
  • Workers Governing Digital Technologies: Collective strategies across contexts (learn more)
Book launches 

We host occasional in-person conversations with faculty from universities around the world about their recent publications on a wide variety of topics related to inclusive economies and sustainable livelihoods. 

Learn more about our recent book talks
Inclusive Economies Working Group 

Along with the Centre for Learning, Social Economy & Work at OISE, we host a working group devoted to reading and discussing recent research and works-in-progress on economic paradigms rooted in inclusion, justice and place-based approaches. Working Group members propose recently published research – either their own, or works by others that they find inspiring – as well as works-in-progress for discussion. 

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