Social Change and Justice Lab is a transdisciplinary research laboratory that examines social inequalities, processes of justice, and the psychological dimensions of social change. Research conducted in the lab aims to explore how individual experiences are embedded within historical, cultural, and political contexts and to understand how social change is produced and sustained not only through individual attitudes and behaviours but also at institutional, cultural, and epistemic levels.

The lab’s work focuses on the individual and structural dimensions of social identity, power and hierarchies, processes of exclusion and marginalisation, collective action, solidarity, and social transformation.

These research efforts are organised around four core principles:

• Epistemic justice: Critically interrogating Western-centred assumptions, knowledge hierarchies, and epistemic inequalities in scientific knowledge production and making alternative modes of knowledge production and plural epistemologies visible.
• Open science: Supporting the production and circulation of knowledge in transparent, accessible, and shareable forms.
• Methodological pluralism: Employing a wide range of methodologies, including experimental studies, survey research, in-depth interviews, autoethnography, discourse and text analysis, participatory and community-based research, as well as meta-scientific studies.
• Impact: Connecting research to policy, civil society, and community-based practices and remaining open to interdisciplinary collaborations, participatory research approaches, and dialogue with experience-based forms of knowledge.