Research Projects
Students in the Economic and Social Development of Regions master's program must complete either a thesis or a professional project to graduate.
These are a few of the projects ESDR students have completed:
- Lawrence Community Works: A Look into IDAs (Individual Development Accounts) and the Family Asset Building Department (FAB)
- The Creative Economy: It’s a Push Not a Plan
- Temporary Work in the Merrimack Valley: An In-Depth Look
- A Study of Alternative Staffing Organizations
- Creating Microenterprise Opportunities in Rural Peru
- Creative Products On-Line Catalogue
- Surveying of Lowell’s Emergent Generation
- Don’t Borrow Trouble Campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- Planning an Annual Fundraising Party for United Teen Equality Center
- Designing the Framework of Lowell’s Green Building Program
- Reproductive and Developmental Toxins
- Community Outreach through Environmental Education
- Welfare To Work Programs In Massachusetts: A Comparison and Recommendation
- Assessing Spiritual/Life Concerns of Adult Student Learners and International Students
- Bringing Proportional Representation to the City of Lowell in Collaboration with a Local Non-Profit
- High School Dropout Rates: Consequences and Remedies – A Perspective on Lowell High School
- Cultural Organization of Lowell
- MCAS and Education Reform in Lawrence, MA