Systemic discrimination lives inside institutions. Changing it requires working with them — not just studying them from the outside.

How it works

UNDETERRED’s non-academic partners are embedded in the research process from the start. They don’t receive findings at the end — they help shape the questions, challenge the analysis, and co-design the experiments.

In practice, this means:

  • Joint workshops to align research questions with real institutional constraints
  • Iterative feedback loops between research findings and partner organisations
  • Collaborative experiment design — testing new practices directly within partner structures
  • Shared evaluation of what works, what doesn’t, and why

Our non-academic partners

Bordeaux Métropole — Dept. Urban SolidaritySocial housing, urban policy
CCI Bordeaux GirondeEmployment, business practices
URHAJ Nouvelle-AquitaineYouth housing, social support

The goal

Co-construction ensures that UNDETERRED’s outputs are not shelved reports — but tools that partner organisations can actually use, adapted to their real operational contexts.

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