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Transition Talks are keynote-style public lectures where invited speakers share new perspectives on rural-urban change and its lived experiences.

With their broad appeal and critical insight, these talks connect the center’s research to wider academic debates and conversations. 

Transition Dialogues invite people from all professional areas to explore current issues in rural-urban relationships.

Dialogue and conversation based, they offer a space for thoughtful reflection that helps to understand the complexities and nuances of urban-rural life today. 

Transition Data Labs are hands-on sessions where researchers come together to explore and analyze data from current research on rural-urban transitions.

Inspired by traditions of public humanities, the labs open research material for shared exploration, collective interpretation, and critical reflection. If you want to explore your data on rural-urban transitions in a lab, please reach out to us.

Transition Student Fellows are BA or MA students in the final phase of their studies, who wish to write their thesis on a topic aligned with the center’s research. Junior fellows gain access to data, academic mentoring, and a dynamic research community. 

Transition Junior Fellows are PhD-students or post docs working on a research project that connects to the center’s research focus. Junior Fellows may visit the center for a limited time to present and develop their own projects and to build future collaborations and/or partnerships. 

Transition Senior Fellows are researchers from other institutions whose work resonates with the center’s themes. Senior Fellows may join the center’s research environment for a limited time as guests to contribute to ongoing projects and/or to foster new collaborations or partnerships. 

Transition Partnerships are spaces for joint project development. The goal is to build strong, trans- and interdisciplinary partnerships around shared questions that open collaborative spaces for generating ideas, building networks, and expanding the center’s reach through new engagements.

Partnerships can either take the form of researchers from outside the center teaming up with Transition-staff to co-design new research proposals or initiate collaborations with non-academic organizations and/or institutions invested in rural-urban transitions.