Research community

Collaborative research, mentoring, and student work.

My research and teaching are built around collaboration with students, public agencies, nonprofits, and community partners.

Graduate students and faculty gathered informally in a lab setting

Lab culture

The research community around my work includes graduate students, collaborators, community partners, and public agencies. Students contribute to spatial analysis, fieldwork, interviews, focus groups, literature synthesis, report writing, and public presentations.

Gallery

Selected images from student presentations, conference activity, community engagement, and research collaboration.

Students and faculty standing with affordable housing project posters — Student-led affordable housing innovation poster presentations.

Students standing in front of research posters — Applied student research and public-facing presentation work.

Conference panel with Dr. Sowmya Balachandran and colleagues — Professional service and conference engagement.

Community engagement table with older adults and coastal change mapping — Community-engaged research on coastal change and aging.

Research group social gathering — Research group community and informal mentoring.

Community and university partners gathered at UMass Boston — Partnerships across community, university, and public-sector networks.