STREAM 15
Social Innovation Tools and Methods

Chairs: Liz Chen & Kyle McQuillan (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

How do you train others in social innovation tools and methods to grow their content, skills, and mindsets? And how do you measure the outcomes of these training activities? 

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Now that we’ve established the need for social innovations to address transdisciplinary grand challenges and to help reach ambitious goals like the Sustainable Development Goals, it is necessary to shift the conversation from why social innovation is important to how we create social innovations/social impact and train future generations of social innovators. What content, skills, and mindsets are needed? How do we measure change in content, skills, and mindsets? Research in this space continues to evolve and we want to understand what’s working, what’s not, and what researchers and trainers recommend. We welcome researchers from different disciplines, sectors, and organizations to submit proposals for consideration.

We are seeking empirical or conceptual papers that will translate into interactive 15- to 20- minute workshops at the annual conference where you will expose conference attendees to a specific social innovation tools or methods and discuss the outcomes associated with your training efforts. Whether you’d like to model an activity, worksheet or template, discussion, or experience, we want to leverage this unique opportunity to learn from global social innovation researchers and collectively strengthen our ability to build changemaking and social innovation skills around the world.