FIBER · University of Florida
Disasters, trust & Social Change Lab
An interdisciplinary lab that undertakes community-centered research with a focus on the societal inequality and injustice by which risk profiles are defined.
We examine the structural, sociopolitical, and psychological barriers that create community vulnerability — and how narratives and trust shape what gets rebuilt, for whom, and on whose terms.
— THE LAB BOOK
How we work, written down
Our guide to the research practices, principles, and methodologies behind the lab’s work — the core values we hold each other to, how we run meetings and share authorship and data, how we conduct ourselves in communities during fieldwork, and the story of how DTSC started.
Core values
Fieldwork protocols
Authorship & data
Onboarding
How DTSC started
— PROJECTS
Research with communities, not on them
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Featured · Credentialing & workforce
Community Resilience Initiative
A disaster-resilience credentialing pathway built with communities, colleges, and organizations — piloting in Jacksonville, Gainesville, and Cedar Key. Click to open the project’s own pages.
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Community resilience
Cedar Key: recovery, trust, and a working waterfront
Long-term engagement with Cedar Key residents through repeated hurricane impacts.
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Food systems
Food access after disasters
Modeling urban food access under disruption, centering underserved households.
— INTERACTIVE
Explore our research on the map
Our ArcGIS StoryMap traces the lab’s fieldwork across Florida’s coast — the places, the people, and the stories behind each project.
— PEOPLE
An interdisciplinary team
— NEWS
From the lab
Share our commitment to disaster justice?
We welcome prospective students, community partners, and collaborators. Reach out — we read everything.