Research
FACULTY & RESEARCH
Connect, collaborate, and build research that moves further
The School of Sustainable Futures helps faculty and researchers connect across disciplines, build strong collaborations, and strengthen climate and sustainability work at CSU.
The School supports communities of practice and interdisciplinary teams that help faculty build relationships, test ideas, and pursue work that benefits from collaboration across fields. We leverage assets across CSU to support innovative interdisciplinary teams with targeted training, shared platforms, and the relationships that make sustained collaboration and knowledge translation possible.
How we support faculty and researchers
Climate and sustainability challenges cut across fields. The School helps faculty, researchers, and cross-campus teams form connections, test ideas, build proposals, and move strong work toward greater reach and impact.
Our role is to complement the work happening in colleges, departments, centers, and central research leadership. We provide climate and sustainability-specific expertise, community, and connective infrastructure that are difficult for any single unit to build alone.
What you can expect
Collaboration and community
Research readiness
Teaching and translation support
Research communities and initiatives
The School supports communities of practice and interdisciplinary teams that help faculty build relationships, test ideas, and pursue work that benefits from collaboration across fields.
Resident Fellows
The Resident Fellows program supports faculty and researchers who want to build deeper interdisciplinary connections around sustainability challenges.
Fellows have time and space to exchange ideas, develop new collaborations, and contribute to a stronger climate and sustainability research community across CSU.
Collaboratories
Collaboratories bring faculty together around priority climate and sustainability challenges.
These working groups create space for discussion, synthesis, proposal development, and new partnerships across colleges and disciplines.
Global Challenges Research Teams
Global Challenges Research Teams support interdisciplinary faculty teams working on complex sustainability challenges.
The program helps teams build momentum, strengthen collaboration, and position their work for larger opportunities.
Support for Faculty & Cross-Campus Teams
The School is committed to finding innovative solutions to new and existing sustainability problems through rigorous scholarship and interdisciplinary expertise. SoGES is a catalyst for creative problem solving and invests in people who are willing to work towards solving sustainability grand challenges. These challenges are larger than any one academic pursuit or discipline, so solutions demand interdisciplinary collaboration.