Our Research Clusters

We foster dynamic research communities known as clusters, each dedicated to exploring specific themes of contemporary relevance. These clusters serve as vibrant platforms for discussion, collaboration, and innovation across various fields.

Here’s a list of the thematic clusters available for engagement:

Activist Academy

This cluster brings together (activist) scholars and (academic) activists that engage in the study of political agency.

Centre of Expertise for Transformative Mobilities

Rethinking how movement shapes our world — and how it can shape fairer, more sustainable futures

Complexity and Health

The Complexity and Health Cluster aims to break down disciplinary boundaries and foster interconnectedness rather than isolation.

Conflict Cluster

The Conflict Cluster aims to engage staff members and PhD candidates across different groups and departments at Wageningen University in debates and joint activities around the study of conflict and violence.

Critical Agrarian Studies: Land, Labour and Livelihoods

The Critical Agrarian Studies cluster brings together scholars from different disciplines and fields who are engaged in the study of agrarian issues from a critical perspective.

Disaster and Risk

Building on a longstanding tradition of disaster studies at WUR since 1997, this cluster brings together scholars (within and outside CSPS) from a range of disciplines

Foodscapes

This cluster brings together scholars who engage in the study of food and its social, political, environmental and economic meanings shaped by local contexts.

Gender and Diversity

The Gender and Diversity cluster is a space for Wageningen researchers and staff members across disciplines and fields to share and develop knowledge and skills about gender and diversity in WUR academic domains as well as in WUR professional workplaces.

Health and Environment

The Health and Environment Cluster is an inter-disciplinary platform that engages staff members and PhD candidates across different groups and departments at Wageningen University & Research.

Political Ecology

The Political Ecology Cluster brings together a variety of academic researchers and PhD candidates from different disciplines and fields at Wageningen University who are engaged in the study of political ecology.

Politics of Space and Place

This theme brings together a variety of academic researchers and PhD candidates from different disciplines and fields at Wageningen University who are engaged in the study of politics, governance and the production of space and place.

Transformative Learning Hub

The Transformative Learning Hub seeks to blur the boundaries conventionally drawn between research and education Recognising that we are all equally ‘problem-solvers, thinkers and learners

Urbanscapes

The ‘Urbanscapes’ cluster of CSPS aims to engage with staff members of the four chair groups and associated PhD candidates in debates and joint activities related to the evolving urban landscape