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Geographical Research Clusters

These clusters serve as intellectual homes for faculty, students, and partners pursuing place-based research. Together, they represent GPRL's commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration, long-term community engagement, and evidence-informed solutions.

The in-depth data collected provides an opportunity to involve local governments, NGOs, donors, and other stakeholders to explore unexpected connections and complementarities that arise from the interaction of different programs and policies.

The clusters involve a long-term commitment to research collaboration with local institutions, policy engagement and the opportunity for Northwestern students to participate.

Explore Our Clusters

Each cluster below links to a dedicated subpage with detailed descriptions of research themes, ongoing projects, affiliated faculty, student opportunities, and field partners.

China Research Cluster

Focus: collaborate with universities and researchers to provide a platform for U.S. researchers and students to gain access to Chinese data and in-depth knowledge of China’s rapidly evolving institutional and policy environment

Ghana Research Cluster

Focus: create detailed, multi-level, long-term scientific data that follows individuals over time in Ghana and describes both the natural and built environment in which they reside through collecting long-term panel data in multiple rounds

Philippines Research Cluster

Focus: track socioeconomic development in the Western Visayas over the next 20 years, and provide a sample with which development researchers can conduct randomized trials with built-in measurement every four years

Global Reach, Local Insight

In addition to our geographic clusters, we have collaborative research projects in more than 20 countries as depicted in the chart below.

Learn more about our research projects.

Get Involved

Whether you are a student, policymaker, or potential partner, GPRL offers a variety of ways to collaborate and engage:

 

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