About CIRA

The Center for Integrating Research and Action (CIRA) at the University of North Carolina –Chapel Hill is an initiative bringing together university-based researchers with community-based leaders to collaborate on producing research/action projects to advance sustainable development and community well-being and social justice in North Carolina and beyond.

• Over $ 1,000,000 dollars in research grants submitted
  
• Collaborations, Projects and Partnerships with 10 UNC Centers and Departments, 20 community/regionally based organizations and 4 UNC system colleges and universities
• Community Initiated Research Project & Service Requests
• Over ten CIRA Sponsored or Co-sponsored Presentations, Conferences and Events
• Over 75 different CIRA Affiliated courses taught since its inception
• CIRA Affiliated Professor James Peacock’s Massey Award
• Charles Price and Dorothy Holland, Co-Directors of CIRA, Faculty Engaged Scholars Program
  

AREAS OF RESEARCH

CIRA's work is focused on four specific areas of research and action. Our work is broadly defined by the participants themselves, meaning that community organizations, movements, individual activists leaders and researchers may choose to self-identify their work with a particular theme.

• Community Empowerment /Collective Action
  
• Cultural Heritage
• Alternative Economies and Energy Development
  
•  Food & Justice