Transnational Topics @ UK

With federal and state funding, HDI focuses on interdisciplinary education, research and development, information sharing, advocacy and outreach. HDI conducts research, development, and model demonstration efforts to continually improve state-of-the-art best practices. HDI staff provide outreach services and consultation to agency staff to identify and resolve the challenges involved in promoting and achieving independence, productivity and inclusion of persons with disabilities throughout life.

The institute’s mission is to enhance the health and well being of Kentuckians and the global community by improving built, managed and natural environments. This involves promoting sustainable development, sound energy policies, and effective environmental stewardship through an integrated transdisciplinary program of fundamental and applied research in the physical, life, economic, and social sciences through education, as well as public service and stakeholder engagement. The research agenda of the institute is supported, developed and implemented by a group of 150 faculty representing 14 colleges.

As a professor of Political Science, his primary teaching and research interests were in the areas of critical policy studies (urban, energy and environment, and agricultural and ecological policy), political theory (early, modern, and critical traditions), substainable urban design, and politics and literature. His most recent research grants involved him in fieldwork on issues of political economy, labor, and sustainable cities in Canada and extensive field studies in eco-cities in China.