The Urban Institute's Faculty Fellows program, with support from the Gambrell Foundation, funds research projects focused on the pressing needs in our community.
The Gambrell Faculty Fellows program grew out of the Charlotte Opportunity Insights Partnership, also funded by The Gambrell Foundation. One key objective of the Partnership is to incorporate, facilitate, and build local research capacity to address issues related to economic mobility in Charlotte. The Gambrell Faculty Fellowship Program was developed in 2018 to contribute to this objective by facilitating research on economic mobility and ensuring that our community can access that work. The Gambrell Foundation awarded a second grant to the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute in 2019 to extend and continue to build the fellowship program.
New: The Gambrell Faculty Fellows Program has named its fourth cohort of researchers
Previous Gambrell Faculty Fellows cohorts
- Third Gambrell Faculty Fellows Cohort: Closing the racial wealth gap, understanding Black women's resilience, bridging the digital divide and making the transit system work for everyone. (August 2021)
- A Groundswell for Charlotte: New Gambrell Faculty Fellows address Economic Mobility (August 2020)
- The Urban Institute Research Faculty Fellows seek to better our region (August 2019)
Recently published research from Gambrell Faculty Fellows
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"Poverty Suburbanization, Job Accessibility, and Employment Outcomes" - Published in Social Inclusion, May 2021 (summary)
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Employee ownership: an innovative strategy to bridge Charlotte’s growing racial wealth gap.
Watch some of the faculty fellows discuss their work during the institute's 2021 virtual Schul Conversations on economic mobility
