There are numerous research centers affiliated with the Psychology program, where students and faculty work on an array of topics from cognitive development and education to playgrounds and community development. Links to the websites for affilliated research centers are below.
Center for Human Environments | Center
for Lesbian and Gay Studies | Center for Place, Culture
and Politics | Center for Advanced Study in Education
| Center for Urban Research | Center
for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work | Center
for Studies of Women and Society
For ALL research centers located in the Graduate Center, please click here
Center
for Human Environments
Graduate Center
The Center for Human Environments (CHE) is a community research and technical
assistance center which provides a bridge between tenants, children and
communities and the non-profit/governmental sector that develops programs
and policies affecting them, through research, technical assistance and
participatory design projects. CHE brings together architects, psychologists,
geographers, anthropologists, political scientists and urban planners
whose research addresses the relationships between people and their physical
settings. CHE often merges its research and participatory design skills
with design and planning firms to help design environments more directly
tied to the needs and experiences of those living or working in them.
The Center for Human Environments houses 4 interrelated
research groups: Housing Environments Research Group, Childrens Environments
Research Group, Public Space Research Group, and the Youth Studies Group.
Center
for Lesbian and Gay Studies
Graduate Center
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is the first and only university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals. By sponsoring public programs and conferences, offering fellowships to individual scholars, and functioning as an indispensable conduit of information, CLAGS serves as a national center for the promotion of scholarship that fosters social change.
Center
for Place, Culture and Politics
Graduate Center
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics is an interdisciplinary center
providing an exciting intellectual forum for the discussion of a wide
range of vital contemporary issues. The center's name and focus express
the fact that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, questions
of space and place have come to play a crucial role in the public culture.
Center
for Advanced Study in Education
Graduate Center
The Center for Advanced Study in Education (CASE) was established to conduct
basic and applied research concerned with improving and upgrading the
quality of education in urban areas. CASE serves as a forum for consideration
of policy issues, a center for interdisciplinary approaches to educational
problems, and a clearinghouse in areas of educational research. Its activities
are conducted either through the Director's office or through one of its
component units: the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational
Education, the National Self-Help Clearinghouse, the National Resource
Center for Paraprofessionals, the Peer Research Laboratory, and the Workplace
Technology Research Group. Many CASE projects are conducted in collaboration
with the New York City Board of Education.
Center
for Urban Research
Graduate Center
Working with Graduate Center faculty and students, the Center for Urban
Research organizes research on the critical issues that face New York
and other large cities in the U.S. and abroad, collaborates with public
agencies, nonprofit organizations, and other partners, and holds forums
for the media, foundations, community organizations and others about urban
research at the Graduate School and CUNY.
Graduate Center
The Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work concerns itself both structurally and historically with issues relating to knowledge and the forms of knowledge, such as scientific method, emergent discourses, and interrelationships among high, mass, popular, and everyday cultures. The Center, which is interdisciplinary in orientation, fosters appropriate scholarly activities such as research projects and publications, seminars, and colloquia. Information and research expertise are provided to the scholarly community as well as to the community at large, with particular emphasis on the communities of New York City.
Center
for the Study of Women & Society
Graduate Center
Since 1977, The Center for the Study of Women and Society has promoted
interdisciplinary feminist scholarship. The focus of the Center's research
agenda is the study of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class and nation
in relationship to the experiences of women and men in societies around
the world. The Center co-sponsors with the Women's Studies Certificate
Program intellectual exchange symposia and lectures--- among scholars
within CUNY as well as with visiting scholars. The Center also seeks to
collaborate with grassroots and professional organizations.