The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a collaborative hub committed to advancing public-facing, community-engaged research. For over two decades, our mission of “Research for Action” has driven globally engaged, interdisciplinary projects that address the world’s most pressing challenges.
Rooted in UCSB’s Social Sciences and Humanities, the Orfalea Center is organized around participatory research clusters and geographic hubs that bring together faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and research partners—particularly in the Global South and East—to connect, collaborate, and co-create impactful knowledge.
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