On this page, you will find a list of organisations that do academic research into social change-making.

Basing our strategies and tactics on the work of scholarly research, we can become much more effective. Check out these organisations to learn more about activism from an academic perspective:

• International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies, IRGAC (Twitter): an initiative of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation that brings together scholar-activists to exchange research on the rise of the Right and responses from the Left

• Nonviolent Action Lab (Twitter): The Nonviolent Action Lab produces data & analysis on where & how nonviolent action works worldwide by Erica Chenoweth and Jay Ulfelder

• Activism Research Hub (Twitter): Gathering, analysing and implementing activism research for rapid and effective environmental change.

• Anarchism Research Group (Twitter): The ARG provides an informal space at Loughborough University for the discussion, exploration & analysis of anarchist history, theory & practice.

• International Institute of Social History (Twitter): The International Institute of Social History, based in Amsterdam, conducts research and collects data on the global history of labour, social history and social movements since 2009.

• Data for Progress (Twitter)

• New Economy Organisers Network (Twitter)

• Social Movement Studies Journal (Twitter)

• Interface, Social Movements Journal

• Social Change Lab

• Crowd Counting Consortium

Inactive groups #

The following research groups seem to be inactive based on their website and social media activity:

• Resistance Studies (Twitter): Their website is offline, but here's an archived version.

• Advocacy Lab (Twitter): research and education to those engaged in policy advocacy. An initiative of Darren Halpin, Bert Fraussen and Herschel F. Thomas

External resources #

• Wikipedia: Social movement theory