Use this page to explain how the major parts of your research program connect. The map offers orientation; the sections below provide space for the questions, evidence, projects, and future directions that make each strand distinct.

Research map

A connected research program

Use two, three, or four regions to show how the major parts of your scholarship relate. Each point can link to a publication or project.

Core questions

What phenomenon, tension, or problem anchors this part of your work?

People & contexts

Whose experiences, settings, or institutions does this strand help us understand?

Research program Your research program The idea connecting your work

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Core questions

What phenomenon, tension, or problem anchors this part of your work?

Explain the central question, its intellectual context, and why it matters. Add findings, projects, or future directions that belong together here.

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People & contexts

Whose experiences, settings, or institutions does this strand help us understand?

Use this strand to make visible the people, places, materials, or histories that shape your scholarship.

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Evidence & explanation

What forms of evidence help you describe patterns, explain mechanisms, or test ideas?

Describe the evidence and analytic choices that let you move from observation to explanation.

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Translation & impact

How does this work move into practice, policy, design, or public conversation?

Show how ideas travel beyond a paper through tools, partnerships, teaching, policy, or public-facing work.

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Evidence and approach

Use this optional section to connect your questions to the evidence, methods, or forms of practice that move the work forward.

Pattern and scale

Name the evidence you use to identify patterns, compare cases, or estimate change.

Experience and meaning

Describe how you learn from participants, texts, settings, or lived experience.

Making and testing

Show how prototypes, interventions, archives, or experiments develop the inquiry.

Partnership and use

Explain how collaborators, communities, or institutions shape the work and its use.