Social Change and Justice Lab is a transdisciplinary research laboratory that examines social
inequalities, processes of justice, and the psychological dimensions of social change.
Research conducted in the lab aims to explore how individual experiences are embedded
within historical, cultural, and political contexts and to understand how social change is
produced and sustained not only through individual attitudes and behaviours but also at
institutional, cultural, and epistemic levels.
The lab’s work focuses on the individual and structural dimensions of social identity, power
and hierarchies, processes of exclusion and marginalisation, collective action, solidarity, and
social transformation. These research efforts are organised around four core principles:
1. Epistemic justice: Critically interrogating Western-centred assumptions, knowledge
hierarchies, and epistemic inequalities in scientific knowledge production and
making alternative modes of knowledge production and plural epistemologies
visible.
2. Open science: Supporting the production and circulation of knowledge in
transparent, accessible, and shareable forms.
3. Methodological pluralism: Employing a wide range of methodologies, including
experimental studies, survey research, in-depth interviews, autoethnography,
discourse and text analysis, participatory and community-based research, as well as
meta-scientific studies.
4. Impact: Connecting research to policy, civil society, and community-based practices
and remaining open to interdisciplinary collaborations, participatory research
approaches, and dialogue with experience-based forms of knowledge.
The lab is open to researchers and students from all disciplines who are interested in
collectively thinking about and working on issues of social change and justice from a critical
and interdisciplinary perspective.
Applications for research assistant positions are accepted via the following link:
https://boun.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GCKwkrDj43NDHE
Contact: busociallab@bogazici.edu.tr